Work–Family Conflict, Emotional Responses, Workplace Deviance, and Well-Being among Construction Professionals: A Sequential Mediation Model

Yan Chen, Feilian Zhang, Yan Wang and Junwei Zheng
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Yan Chen: School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
Feilian Zhang: School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
Yan Wang: Collaborative Innovation Center for Integration of Marine & Terrestrial Economics and Construction of Marine Silk Road, Guangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanning 530007, China
Junwei Zheng: Department of Construction Management, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: Given the dynamic, complex, and highly demanding project environment, construction professionals are particularly likely to experience a high level of work–family conflict. Taking an emotional resource perspective and on the basis of affective events theory, this study tested negative affect and emotional exhaustion as sequential mediators between two directions of work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviance behavior. The theoretical model was examined using data collected at two time points from 143 construction professionals through regression analysis and bootstrapping. The results indicate that work–family conflict was positively related to deviant behavior and negatively related to workplace well-being. The findings demonstrate that the mediation effects of emotional exhaustion between work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviant behavior were significant and that the sequential mediating effects of negative affect and emotional exhaustion in the relationship between work–family conflict and workplace well-being or deviant behavior were significant. Moreover, different impacts of work interference with family and family interference with work on job-related attitudes and behavior were observed. These findings highlight the importance of emotional experience to understand the negative impact of work–family conflict in the temporary project context.

Keywords: work–family conflict; negative affect; emotional exhaustion; deviant behavior; workplace well-being; construction professionals; affective events theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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