 Work–Family Conflicts and Marital Satisfaction Among US Workers: Does Stress Amplification Matter?Krista Minnotte (), Michael Minnotte () and Jordan Bonstrom Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 36, issue 1, 33 pages Abstract: The toll that the stress inherent in navigating work and family can have on marriages is well documented. While previous scholarship has highlighted the particularly salient roles of work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict, we know little about the impacts of the joint experience of these forms of conflict on marital satisfaction. Informed by stress amplification theory, this study considered the interaction between work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict in predicting the marital satisfaction of US workers. Using data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 1,046 married men and 776 married women), we found work-to-family conflict’s negative association with marital satisfaction was amplified when family-to-work conflict was also high. Implications of the findings were discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Keywords: Family-to-work conflict; Work-to-family conflict; Marital satisfaction; Work-to-family spillover; Family-to-work spillover; Stress amplification (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jfamec:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:21-33 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s10834-014-9420-5 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Family and Economic Issues is currently edited by Joyce Serido More articles in Journal of Family and Economic Issues from Springer |
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