Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction

By Noelle Chesley. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress (2011, methodology): “Chesley (Chesley et al. 2003, Chesley 2005) relied on well-established indicators of stress but combined using e-mail with other uses of the Internet to create a measure of computer use.”
"Express yourself" / "Stay together": Tensions surrounding mobile communication in the middle-class Indian family (2006, background): “For example, Chesley (2005) found that over time, mobile use tended to blur the internal/external boundaries at home, eroding family satisfaction.”
“Technoference”: The interference of technology in couple relationships and implications for women’s personal and relational well-being. (2016, background): “Often, these studies find that the use of cell phones blurs the boundaries between work and home, leading to increased negative work-to-family spillover, negative mood, and lower satisfaction with family life (Chesley, 2005; Mazmanian et al., 2005).”
Technology interference in the parenting of young children: Implications for mothers’ perceptions of coparenting (2016, background): “Studies find that the use of cell phones/smartphones blurs the boundaries between work and home, leading to increased negative work-to-family spillover, negative mood, and lower satisfaction with family life (e.g., Chelsey, 2005; Mazmanian, Orlikowski, & Yates, 2005).”
Internet use and well-being: A survey and a theoretical framework (2018, background): “Others argue that online communication tools at work can negatively affect the balance between work and private life, by keeping employees online at all times regardless of their physical location, even in their spare time (Boswell & OlsonBuchanan, 2007; Chesley, 2005).”
Work-Related Smartphone Use and Well-Being in the Evening (2014, background): “These regulations seem to be justified by recent research showing that use of modern technology such as smartphones after working hours is related to increased level of work-family conflict (Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Olson-Buchanan & Boswell, 2006), and increased distress (Chesley, 2005).”
Work-related smartphone use, work–family conflict and family role performance: The role of segmentation preference (2016, background): “Foremost, our central aim was to contribute to the debate on whether using smartphones to perform work during off-job hours is mainly associated with an increase in WFC (e.g. Middleton, 2007), or whether it might contribute to a better balance between the two domains (e.g. Chesley, 2005).”
Work-Life Balance: an Integrative Review (2017, background): “Research has demonstrated that increased use of mobile technologies blurs the boundaries between work and family, making segmentation difficult and creating undue stress (Chesley 2005; Park et al. 2011).”
Work–Family Role Blurring and Work–Family Conflict (2012, background): “Two specific trends are of particular relevance to this reemergence: the rise of a 24/7 global economy that has increased employer and employee demand for flexible work schedules and remote work options, and the proliferation of communications technologies that allow work to be performed “anytime, a”
Hot Buttons and Time Sinks: The Effects of Electronic Communication During Nonwork Time on Emotions and Work-Nonwork Conflict (2015, unknown): “, Boswell & Olson-Buchanan, 2007; Fenner & Renn, 2010; Kennedy, Wellman, & Amoroso, 2011) as well as negative personal consequences such as sleep deprivation, burnout, and marital dissatisfaction (Chesley, 2005; Lanaj, Johnson, & Barnes, 2014; Towers, Duxbury, Higgins, & Thomas, 2006).”
The dark side of smartphone usage: Psychological traits, compulsive behavior and technostress (2014, background): “Ongoing use of technology also links to heightened psychological distress (Chesley, 2005).”
Are communications about work outside regular working hours associated with work-to-family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems? (2013, background): “Expanded access to e-mail, cell phones, smart phones and other communication devices often enhance flexibility and enable remote work, but also contribute to a ‘‘24/7 availability’’ that may present new stressors and strains (Batt & Valcour, 2003; Chesley, 2005).”
Smartphone Use, Work–Home Interference, and Burnout: A Diary Study on the Role of Recovery (2014, background): “In line with this, Chesley (2005) showed that mobile phone use was associated with increases in negative forms of spillover linked to increased distress and lower family satisfaction, whereas regular computer use was not.”
Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “…of Internet use but did ﬁnd that women’s negative effect was inﬂuenced positively by their husbands’ information technology use, presumably because information technologies helped reduce the negative effects of spillover from work to family (Chesley, 2005, 2006; Chesley, Moen, & Shore, 2003).”