Positive spillover from the work—family interface: A study of Australian employees

By Jarrod M. Haar, E. Bardoel. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 2008

90 citations recorded by the source corpus.

While work—family conflict has received much attention in the literature, there is a dearth of empirical evidence about work—family positive spillover. Further, we have little understanding of positive spillover in an Australian setting. Using structural equation modelling, we tested positive spillover on 420 Australian public and private sector employees, and found work—family positive spillover was negatively associated with psychological distress and turnover intentions, while family—work positive spillover was negatively linked with psychological distress, and positively linked with family satisfaction. The findings indicated that positive spillover had the greatest influence on outcomes associated with the same domain, for example positive spillover from the workplace and turnover intentions. The findings support the notion that not all work and family experiences are negative, and experiences from the work and from the home can improve outcomes both inside and outside the workplace.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/efdddd87a7950b4fe36cea309645bd3a9ac389e8

How researchers see this paper

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

In Gender Studies

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Antecedents and consequences of work-family enrichment among Indian managers (2009, methodology): “Representation of other sociocultural contexts has been minimal, barring exceptions (Aryee, Srinivas and Tan 2005; Haar and Bardoel 2008; Karatepe and Beketeshi 2008; Kinnunen, Feldt, Geurts and Pulkkinen 2006).”
Testing a new measure of work–life balance: a study of parent and non-parent employees from New Zealand (2013, background): “Empirical work–family enrichment studies have provided strong support for positive outcomes, including mental health (Hanson, Hammer and Colton 2006; Haar and Bardoel 2008) and family, life and job satisfaction (Edwards and Rothbard 2000; Hill 2005; Hanson et al. 2006).”
Work–Family Enrichment and Satisfaction (2014, background): “Some studies have found work-to-family enrichment to contribute to family satisfaction (Carlson et al., 2006), while others have failed to find this relationship (Carlson et al., 2009; Haar & Bardoel, 2008; Hunter et al., 2010; Michel & Clark, 2009; Wayne et al., 2004).”