The relation between work-family balance and quality of life

By Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, K. Collins, Jason D. Shaw. 2003

1,762 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract We examined the relation between work–family balance and quality of life among professionals employed in public accounting. Three components of work–family balance were assessed: time balance (equal time devoted to work and family), involvement balance (equal involvement in work and family), and satisfaction balance (equal satisfaction with work and family). For individuals who invested substantial time in their combined work and family roles, those who spent more time on family than work experienced a higher quality of life than balanced individuals who, in turn, experienced a higher quality of life than those who spent more time on work than family. We observed similar findings for involvement and satisfaction. We identified the contributions of the study to the work–family balance literature and discussed the implications of the findings for future research.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/25cc7fae1de304e522b4455971de145eb19d42b8

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Social Psychology

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Factors affecting employee use of work-life balance initiatives (2007, neutral): “Individuals with high time demands may be inhibited from achieving a high quality of life in both work and family domains (Greenhaus, Collins & Shaw, 2003).”
Outcomes of work–life balance on job satisfaction, life satisfaction and mental health: a study across seven cultures (2014, background): “Second, we believe that balanced individuals may be mentally healthier because they experience a sense of harmony in life and optimal psychophysiological conditions which enable them to meet the long-term demands of work and nonwork roles (Greenhaus et al., 2003).”
Work-life balance of UK construction workers: relationship with mental health (2020, background): “In contrast, flexible work hours and locations could result in better WLB (Hill et al. 2001), leading to a good balance of time, satisfaction, and involvement in both work and life (Greenhaus et al. 2003).”
Constructs of the Work/ Life Interface: A Synthesis of the Literature and Introduction of the Concept of Work/Life Harmony (2011, background): “In an ADHR special issue, Grzywacz and Carlson (2007) define work/life balance as “accomplishment of role-related expectations that are negotiated and shared between an individual and his/her role-related partners in the work and family domains” (p. 458). This definition expands Voydanoff’s (2005) d”
Marital Satisfaction Across the Transition to Parenthood (2010, background): “The number of hours worked by a spouse has been linked to increased work – family conflict, decreased mental and physical health, and decreased family functioning (Greenhaus, Collins, and Shaw 2003; Major, Klein, and Erhart 2002; Yeung and Hofferth 1998).”
Leading Mindfully: Two Studies on the Influence of Supervisor Trait Mindfulness on Employee Well-Being and Performance (2012, neutral): “We measured employee work–life balance with the nineitem, seven-point (1, strongly disagree; 7, strongly agree) scale developed by Greenhaus, Collins, and Shaw (2003).”
Work‐family conflict in a southern European country: The influence of job‐related and non‐related factors (2004, neutral): “, 2002), and quality of life (Greenhaus et al., 2003).”