Your Job is Messing with Mine! The Impact of Mobile Device Use for Work During Family Time on the Spouse’s Work Life
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Volume
23
Issue
4
Publisher
American Psychological Association
First Page
471
Last Page
482
Publication Date
1-1-2018
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.
Recommended Citation
Carlson, D., Thompson, M. J., Crawford, W. S., Boswell, W., & Whitten, D. (2018). “Your job is messing with mine! The impact of mobile device use for work during family time on the spouse’s work life.” Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
