Work-Related Spousal Support and Recovery Experiences among Dual-Earner Couples - Work-Linkage as Moderator
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Work-Related Spousal Support and Recovery Experiences among Dual-Earner Couples Work-Linkage as Moderator Johanna Walter 1
& Verena
C. Haun 1
Received: 15 December 2019 / Revised: 4 June 2020 / Accepted: 9 June 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract While previous research has indicated that segmenting work and home is beneficial to employees’ recovery, this study, which includes 130 dual-earner couples, investigates if and when integrating work and home by receiving work-related support from one’s partner fosters employees’ recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery). Moreover, we examine couples’ work-linkage (i.e., both partners working in the same organization and/or the same occupation) as a moderator. Additionally, we consider the consequences of offering work-related support for the supporting partner’s recovery experiences. We used the actor-partner interdependence model to account for the dependent structure of dyadic data. Results of multiple group analyses comparing work-linked with non-work-linked couples showed that receiving work-related support from a partner was associated with increased relaxation and mastery experiences, at least among work-linked couples. Work-related support was not associated with employees’ detachment. Providing work-related support was positively related to employees’ mastery experiences in non-work-linked couples only, whereas it was unrelated to psychological detachment and relaxation both in couples with and without work-linkage. Drawing on conservation of resources theory and on boundary theory, the findings of this study shed light on work-related spousal support as an enabler of recovery experiences in work-linked couples, extending the limited view that segmenting work and home is the only beneficial approach for recovery during leisure time. Keywords Work-related spousal support . Work-linked relationships . Recovery
experiences . Work–home integration . Actor-partner interdependence model
* Johanna Walter [email protected]
1
Institute of Psychology, Department of Work, Organizational, and Business Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Wallstrasse 3, 55122 Mainz, Germany
Occupational Health Science
Recovery from work during off-job time is crucial for keeping employees healthy and productive (Sonnentag et al. 2017). For example, employees’ recovery experiences (e.g., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery) are associated with increased psychological and psychosomatic well-being (Bennett et al. 2018; Sonnentag and Fritz 2007; Steed et al. 2019). However, when employees are exposed to high levels of job stress, they may find it particularly difficult to unwind and replenish their resources during their off-job time, as their job stressors may spill over into their private lives and hinder their recovery processes (Sonnentag 2018; Steed et al. 2019). Hence, building on the effort-recovery model (Meijman and Mulder 1998) and the stressor-detachment model (Sonnentag and Fritz 2015), scholars have
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