Work-home interference among recently graduated employees: Does a change in work centrality between graduation and employment matter?

Ans De Vos, J. Dikkers and S. De Hauw
Additional contact information
S. De Hauw: Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Abstract: This study examined the association of two work-related factors, namely working hours and fulfilment of expectations related to work-home balance, with work-home interference for two groups of recently graduated Belgian employees based on their change in work centrality between graduation (T1 = 2004) and current employment (T2 = 2007), i.e. employees with increasing work centrality (n = 43) and employees with decreasing work centrality (n = 75). In addition, the moderating effect of self-management as a coping skill is investigated for both associations. By means of hierarchical regression analyses, three main conclusions have been withdrawn. First, working longer hours leads to more work-home interference, independent of respondents’ change in work centrality. Second, respondents whose expectations regarding work-home balance have been fulfilled experience less work-home interference than those whose expectations have not been fulfilled. This association is, however, only found for respondents with decreasing work centrality. Finally, self-management as a coping mechanism only moderates the effect of expectation fulfilment on work-home interference for respondents with decreasing levels of work centrality, but does not influence the relationship between working hours and work-home interference.

Keywords: work-home interference; work centrality; working hours; expectation fulfilment; self-management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2009-11-19
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.vlerick.com/en/12521-VLK/version/defaul ... vlgms-wp-2009-29.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.vlerick.com/en/12521-VLK/version/default/part/AttachmentData/data/vlgms-wp-2009-29.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.vlerick.com/en/12521-VLK/version/default/part/AttachmentData/data/vlgms-wp-2009-29.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vlg:vlgwps:2009-29

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Isabelle Vandenbroere ().