Abstract
By extending the existing literature on work engagement and the work-family interface, the present study aims to uncover the potential impact of family- interference-with-work (FIW) on work engagement and how this, in turn, affects an individual’s job and family satisfaction from the perspective of role scarcity theory. It is further hypothesised, based on a culture-specific view, that ethnicity (South Asian vs white British) plays a role as a boundary condition to explain those associations. To empirically test the moderated mediation effects, we adopted an experience-sampling method with a sample of 215 solicitors in the private sector in the U.K. and conducted two daily surveys over five working days. The findings of a Bayesian multilevel structural equation model indeed suggest that daily work engagement is negatively related to daily FIW, and that work engagement mediates the relationship between daily FIW and job satisfaction, but not between daily FIW and family satisfaction. Also, there was an interactive effect between ethnicity and work engagement, which was found to moderate the indirect effect of FIW on family satisfaction through work engagement, but not on job satisfaction. The implications of the current study and directions for future research are discussed.
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