Commitment to family roles: Effects on managers' attitudes and performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Graves, Laura M.; Ohlott, Patricia J.; Ruderman, Marian N.
• 署名单位: Clark University; Center for Creative Leadership
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.44
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 44-56
• 关键词: family-to-work interference; family-to-work enhancement; family role commitment; managerial attitudes and performance; family-to-work enrichment

摘要

The authors tested the premise that family role commitment (i.e., marital role commitment, parental role commitment) has simultaneous negative and positive effects on managers' (N = 346) life satisfaction, career satisfaction, and performance through family-to-work interference and enhancement. The authors also explored whether psychological strain mediates the effects of interference and enhancement on outcomes. The authors expected family role commitment to reduce the favorability of outcomes by increasing interference. To the contrary, they found that neither marital nor parental role commitment was associated with increased interference. The authors expected family role commitment to improve outcomes by increasing enhancement. As expected, marital role commitment was associated with increased enhancement, which, in turn, seemed to reduce strain and strengthen outcomes. Parental role commitment was also associated with increased enhancement. However, parental role commitment had direct positive effects on outcomes that were more substantial than its indirect effects through enhancement. Overall, marital and parental role commitment had more benefits than costs.