Beauregard, Alexandra
(2004)
Interference between work and home: an empirical study of the antecedents, outcomes, and coping strategies amongst public sector employees.
PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Abstract
Work-home interference has been receiving increasing attention in the organizational
behaviour literature. It is defined as a form of inter-role conflic t in which the demands
of the work role and the demands of the home role are mutually incompatible.
Existing research on work interference with home/home interference with work has
focused on situational antecedents and attitudinal outcomes, with limited attention
paid to gender- and disposition-based predictors, behavioural outcomes, and coping
strategies associated with interference. Using a quantitative methodology, this thesis
drew upon two separate samples of UK public sector employees, comprising 208 and
226 respondents respectively, to pursue three aims: 1) to examine the roles of gender
and of personality in contributing to interference, as well as the potential for
characteristics associated with one domain (e.g., home) to influence the degree of
interference generated by the opposing domain (e.g., work); 2) to investigate the link
between interference and extra-role work behaviours such as organizatio na l
citizenship and workplace deviance; and 3) to extend existing knowledge of coping
strategies for dealing with work-home interference.
Findings indicated that gender moderated the effects of both home- and work-related
characteristics on home interference with work, and that dispositional variables were
capable of predicting work-home interference above and beyond the effects of
situational characteristics. With regard to behavioural outcomes, work-home
interference predicted increased workplace deviance amongst employees. Work
interference with home was associated with greater employee participation in
organizational citizenship behaviours, while the opposite was true for home
interference with work. In terms of coping with interference, cognitive reappraisal
was identified as the most effective strategy, and gender was found to moderate the
effect of certain coping strategies on interference. Contributions of the thesis, major
research and practical implications, and future research directions are discussed.
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