Partners' overwork and individuals' wellbeing and experienced relationship quality.
Partners' overwork and individuals' wellbeing and experienced relationship quality.
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DOI：
10.1080/13668803.2017.1311839
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Berkman, Lisa F
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作者：
Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons;Kelly, Erin L;Buxton, Orfeu M;Berkman, Lisa F
长时间工作或过度工作对个人身心健康的负面影响有据可查。关于过度工作对个人家庭的影响，特别是对伴侣的影响，所知甚少。在本文中，我们使用来自美国IT工作者样本（N=590）的工作，家庭和健康网络的高质量数据来解决文献中的这一差距。具体来说，我们研究是否合作伙伴的长时间工作与个人的感知压力，时间充足的合作伙伴，关系质量，以及这些关系是否因性别而异。此外，根据婚姻压力模型，我们调查是否有任何负相关的合作伙伴的长时间工作和关系质量是由时间充足性或感知压力介导。我们发现，与工作时间长（每周50小时或更多）的男性合作的女性相比，与标准全职工作周（35-49小时）的男性合作的女性有更高的感知压力和更低的时间充足性和关系质量。此外，与过度工作的男人合作所带来的压力增加，而不是时间充足性降低，介导了过度工作和关系质量之间的负面关系。相反，我们发现，与长时间工作的女性合作的男性在压力、时间充足性或关系质量方面与标准全职工作的女性合作的男性没有任何差异。我们的研究结果强调了需要更多的研究来检查过度工作对个人及其家庭的影响。
The negative impact of long work hours, or overwork, on individuals’ physical and psychological wellbeing is well documented. Less is known about the impact of overwork on individuals’ families, especially in regard to partners. In this paper, we address this gap in the literature using high quality data from the Work, Family, and Health Network in a sample of IT workers in the US (N=590). Specifically we examine whether partners’ long work hours are associated with individuals’ perceived stress, time adequacy with partner, and relationship quality, and whether these relationships vary by gender. In addition, following the marital stress model, we investigate whether any negative correlation between partners’ long work hours and relationship quality is mediated by time adequacy or perceived stress. We find that women partnered to men who work long hours (50 or more hours per week) have significantly higher perceived stress and significantly lower time adequacy and relationship quality compared to women partnered to men who work a standard full-time work week (35–49 hours). Further, the increased stress associated with being partnered to a man who overworks, not lower time adequacy, mediates the negative relationship between overwork and relationship quality. Conversely, we find that men partnered to women who work long hours report no differences in stress, time adequacy, or relationship quality than men who are partnered to women who work a standard full-time work week. Our results highlight the need for more research that examines the impact of overwork on individuals and their families.