The relationships between family-work interaction, job-related exhaustion, detachment, and meaning in lifea day-level study of emotional well-being

  1. Garrosa Hernández, Eva
  2. Carmona Cobo, Isabel
  3. Ladstätter, Félix
  4. Blanco Donoso, Luis Manuel
  5. Cooper-Thomas, Elena D.
Revista:
Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology

ISSN: 1576-5962

Ano de publicación: 2013

Volume: 29

Número: 3

Páxinas: 169-177

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5093/TR2013A23 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology

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Resumo

The aim of this research was to provide an integrative overview of the associations between employees' daily emotional well-being (positive and negative affect) and family-work interaction, job-related exhaustion, detachment, and meaning in life. Service sector employees in Spain (N = 105) filled out a general measure and daily survey measures over five working days. Results showed that daily family-work conflict, job-related exhaustion and search for meaning in life predicted employees' negative affect at night; conversely, daily detachment and presence of meaning in life had a negative relation with negative affect at night. In contrast, employees' family-work facilitation, detachment, and presence of meaning in life predicted positive affect at night. Moreover, detachment moderated the relationship between familywork conflict and negative affect, and between the presence of meaning in life and positive affect. These findings have practical implications for individuals and organizations and suggest possible avenues for future research

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