Abstract
The current research drew upon the resource perspective (Grzywacz & Marks, 2000; ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) and firstly focused on the reciprocal mediation relationship between schedule control, work interference with family (WIF) and emotional exhaustion. First, the present study proposed that WIF mediates the negative relationship between schedule control and emotional exhaustion, and emotional exhaustion also mediates the negative relationship between schedule control and WIF. Second, family time adequacy was expected to play an amplifying role in the first path of the two mediations. Using a sample of 563 employees and adopting hierarchical linear modelling, the three-wave study first revealed that the emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between schedule control and WIF while WIF also mediates the schedule control-emotional exhaustion relationship, which demonstrated a reciprocal mediation. Furthermore, the relationship between schedule control and emotional exhaustion, as well as the indirect effects of schedule control on WIF via emotional exhaustion, were stronger for employees with higher family time adequacy. Implications of the findings and future directions are discussed.
Highlights
The current research drew upon the resource perspective (Grzywacz & Marks, 2000; ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) and firstly focused on the reciprocal mediation relationship between schedule control, work interference with family (WIF) and emotional exhaustion
The ICC1s, which indicate the variance explained by group membership, were .05 for schedule control, .00 for family time adequacy, .03 for Time 2 emotional exhaustion, .03 for Time 2 WIF, .01 for Time 3 emotional exhaustion, and .01 for Time 3 WIF
The ICC2s, which indicate the reliability of group means, were .68 for Time 1 schedule control, .13 for Time 1 family time adequacy, .54 for Time 2 emotional exhaustion, .53 for Time 2 WIF, .17 for Time 3 emotional exhaustion, and .24 for WIF Time 3
Summary
The current research drew upon the resource perspective (Grzywacz & Marks, 2000; ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) and firstly focused on the reciprocal mediation relationship between schedule control, work interference with family (WIF) and emotional exhaustion. The present study proposed that WIF mediates the negative relationship between schedule control and emotional exhaustion, and emotional exhaustion mediates the negative relationship between schedule control and WIF. Using a sample of 563 employees and adopting hierarchical linear modelling, the three-wave study first revealed that the emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between schedule control and WIF while WIF mediates the schedule control-emotional exhaustion relationship, which demonstrated a reciprocal mediation. The relationship between schedule control and emotional exhaustion, as well as the indirect effects of schedule control on WIF via emotional exhaustion, were stronger for employees with higher family time adequacy.
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