Support at work and home: The path to satisfaction through balance Academic Article

abstract

• This study examines social support (from both coworkers and partners) and its path to satisfaction through work-family balance. This study fills a gap by explaining how support impacts satisfaction in the same domain, across domains, and how it crosses over to impact the partner's domain. Using a matched dataset of 270 job incumbents and their partners, the findings reveal that work-family balance plays a mediating role in assisting social support's contribution to both job and family satisfaction. Evidence indicates that employees experience heightened work-family balance due to social support from partners and coworkers and that support and balance impact satisfaction in both the work and family domains. Implications of these findings and avenues for future research are discussed. 2011 Elsevier Inc.

authors

• Whitten, G.

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR

author list (cited authors)

• Ferguson, M., Carlson, D., Zivnuska, S., & Whitten, D.

citation count

• 113

complete list of authors

• Ferguson, Merideth||Carlson, Dawn||Zivnuska, Suzanne||Whitten, Dwayne

publication date

• April 2012

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Vocational Behavior  Journal

keywords

• Family Satisfaction
• Job Satisfaction
• Marital Satisfaction
• Social Support
• Work-family Balance

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.001

start page

• 299

end page

• 307

volume

• 80

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.001