Predicting Work-Family Balance: A New Perspective on Person-Environment Fit
Predicting Work-Family Balance: A New Perspective on Person-Environment Fit
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预测工作与家庭平衡：人与环境契合度的新视角
DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01804
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发表时间：
2019-08-06
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Zhou, Lei
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作者：
Liu, Pei;Wang, XiaoTian;Zhou, Lei
工作-家庭平衡仍然是组织研究的一个新兴课题，然而，虽然工作-家庭平衡的各种前因已经确定，研究人员，迄今为止，忽视了一致性与不一致性的影响，工作-家庭整合的偏好和相应的供应在工作中。本研究从个人-环境匹配的角度探讨工作-家庭融合偏好和组织供给是否共同影响工作-家庭平衡，以及婚姻满意度和家庭功能等家庭相关的远端结果。多项式回归分析和响应面方法被用来检验研究的假设。对393名员工的多元回归分析结果支持一致性效应假说。特别是，研究结果表明，员工的工作-家庭平衡是较高的工作-家庭整合的偏好和组织供应是一致的，而不是不一致的。当偏好和供给在更高的水平上而不是在更低的水平上一致时，个人的平衡会更高。此外，表面沿着不协调线的不对称形状表明，一旦组织供应超过个人偏好，员工的工作-家庭平衡往往会受到破坏。此外，通过创建一个块变量的基础上的五个多项式的条款，我们发现，一致/不一致方面的工作-家庭整合的偏好和供应产生的家庭功能和婚姻满意度的远端效果。研究结果支持了我们的假设，也符合人-环境匹配理论和平衡理论。本文还讨论了保持工作与家庭平衡的理论和实践意义。
Work-family balance continues to be a burgeoning topic of organizational research, yet, while the various antecedents of work-family balance have been identified, researchers have, to date, neglected the effect of congruence versus incongruence with regard to work-family integration preferences and the corresponding supplies at work. The current research investigates whether work-family integration preferences and organizational supplies jointly affect work-family balance, and the distal family-related outcomes including marital satisfaction and family functioning, from a person-environment fit perspective. Polynomial regression analysis and response surface methodology are used to test the study's hypotheses. Results of the polynomial regressions on 393 employees are found to support the congruence effect hypotheses. In particular, the results show that employee work-family balance is higher when work-family integration preferences and organizational supplies are congruent, as opposed to incongruent. An individual's balance is higher when preferences and supplies are aligned at higher levels rather than at lower levels. In addition, the asymmetrical shape of the surface along the incongruence line indicated that an employee's work-family balance tends to be damaged once organizational supplies exceed personal preferences. Moreover, through creating a block variable based on the five polynomial terms, we found that congruence/incongruence in respect of work-family integration preferences and supplies yields distal effects on both family functioning and marital satisfaction. Our findings support our hypotheses and are also in line with both person-environment fit theory and balance theory. Theoretical and practical implications for keeping work-family balance are also discussed.