When Work-Family Conflict Hits Home: Parental Work-Family Conflict and Child Health

When Work-Family Conflict Hits Home: Parental Work-Family Conflict and Child Health

Work-family conflict affects employee performance and well-being. However, despite the underlying focus of work-family research on family health and well-being, we have limited knowledge about the impact of role-based stressors, such as work-family conflict, on child health. In this study, we propos...

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Published in:Journal of occupational health psychology Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 590 - 601
Main Authors: Ohu, Eugene Agboifo, Spitzmueller, Christiane, Zhang, Jing, Thomas, Candice L., Osezua, Anne, Yu, Jia
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Educational Publishing Foundation 01-10-2019
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Child Health
Conflict, Psychological
Family Conflict
Family Conflict - psychology
Family Work Relationship
Female
Health Behavior
Human
Humans
Job Performance
Job Satisfaction
Male
Middle Aged
Nigeria
Occupational Stress
Occupational Stress - psychology
Parent Child Relations
Parents - psychology
Self-Control
Stress
Students
Surveys and Questionnaires
Test Construction
Well Being
Work Performance
Young Adult
Nigeria
crossover
job stress
child health
work-family conflict
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Summary:Work-family conflict affects employee performance and well-being. However, despite the underlying focus of work-family research on family health and well-being, we have limited knowledge about the impact of role-based stressors, such as work-family conflict, on child health. In this study, we propose and test the stressor-self-regulatory resources-crossover framework. In the spirit of extension of existing work-family research to other cultural settings, we report on two multisource studies conducted in Nigeria to explain whether, how, why, and when parental work-family conflict relates to child health. In Study 1, we collected multisource data from parent-child pairs in low-income families to test whether parental self-regulatory resources explain why work- family conflict relates to child health, resulting in findings that support the stressor-self-regulatory resources-crossover framework. In order to identify possible targets for future organizational-based interventions, we collected Study 2 data from parents and their children (who were enrolled at private schools) to test whether job autonomy and job demands altered the relationship between parental self-regulatory resources and child health. Moderator analyses of the multisource data reveal that self-regulatory resources matter for child health only when job demands are high or when job autonomy is low, pointing to potential intervention and policy levers.
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ISSN:1076-8998
1939-1307
DOI:10.1037/ocp0000145