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No pain, no gain? A resource-based model of work-to-family enrichment and conflict.
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
  • Zheng Chen
  • Gary N. Powell
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Zheng Chen

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
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Abstract

Work-family scholars tend to work in two largely disconnected research streams, focusing on either work-family enrichment the positive side of the work-family interface or work-family conflict the negative side of this interface. The purpose of this study is to suggest a reconciliation of the two research streams by proposing and testing a resource-based model of work-to-family enrichment and conflict. Specifically, we propose that an individual's work role engagement has two independent outcomes, work role resource gain and loss, and they separately mediate the relationships between work role engagement and work-to-family enrichment and conflict. We further propose that two dimensions of regulatory focus, promotion focus and prevention focus, moderate the relationships between work role engagement and work role resource gain and loss respectively. Structural equation modeling results based on data from 1052 employees of Chinese firms offer general support for these notions.

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Abstract only. Full-text article is available through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81(1), 89-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2012.05.003 Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided.
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en_US
Publisher
Academic Press
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
Chen, Z. & Powell, G.N. (2012). No pain, no gain? A resource-based model of work-to-family enrichment and conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81(1), 89-98.