Your job is messing with mine! The impact of mobile device use for work during family time on the spouse's work life. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The use of mobile technology for work purposes during family time has been found to affect employees' work and family lives. Using a matched sample of 344 job incumbents and their spouses, we examined the role of mobile device (MD) use for work during family time in the job incumbent-spouse relationship and how this MD use crosses over to affect the spouse's work life. Integrating the work-home resources model with family systems theory, we found that as job incumbents engage in MD use for work during family time, work-to-family conflict increases, as does the combined experience of relationship tension between job incumbents and spouses. This tension serves as a crossover mechanism, which then contributes to spouses' experience of family-to-work conflict and, subsequently, family spills over to work outcomes for the spouse in the form of reduced job satisfaction and performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

published proceedings

  • J Occup Health Psychol

altmetric score

  • 204

author list (cited authors)

  • Carlson, D. S., Thompson, M. J., Crawford, W. S., Boswell, W. R., & Whitten, D.

citation count

  • 35

complete list of authors

  • Carlson, Dawn S||Thompson, Merideth J||Crawford, Wayne S||Boswell, Wendy R||Whitten, Dwayne

publication date

  • October 2018