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Journal of Business and Psychology
Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology 1/2020

28-01-2019 | Original Paper

Eldercare Demands and Time Theft: Integrating Family-to-Work Conflict and Spillover–Crossover Perspectives

Authors: Yisheng Peng, Steve Jex, Wenqin Zhang, Jie Ma, Russell A. Matthews

Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Issue 1/2020

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Abstract

Adapting the spillover–crossover model to the context of eldercare, we employed a 5-week weekly diary method in a sample of 82 Chinese dual-earner heterosexual couples to examine the relationships between family eldercare demands, family-to-work conflict, and time theft. Results from multilevel path modeling analyses found that family eldercare demands (as a shared/common stressor) were positively related to each partner’s family-to-work conflict and that the weekly family-to-work conflict of each partner was positively related. Furthermore, family eldercare demands were positively related to each partner’s time theft at the week level, and this relationship was mediated by weekly family-to-work conflict. Thus, this is one of the first studies to show that family eldercare demands can explain the interindividual crossover of family-to-work conflict between partners at the week level and this can spill over intraindividually to impact time theft at work. These findings enhance the field’s understanding of the process by which eldercare demands relate to time theft among dual-earner couples within a focused temporal framework.
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Metadata
Title
Eldercare Demands and Time Theft: Integrating Family-to-Work Conflict and Spillover–Crossover Perspectives
Authors
Yisheng Peng
Steve Jex
Wenqin Zhang
Jie Ma
Russell A. Matthews
Publication date
28-01-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Business and Psychology / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Electronic ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-019-09620-3

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