Kelly Schwind Wilson

THE SPILLOVER OF DAILY JOB SATISFACTION ONTO EMPLOYEES' FAMILY LIVES: THE FACILITATING ROLE OF WORK-FAMILY INTEGRATION

The longitudinal, multisource, multimethod study presented herein examines the role of employees’ work-family integration in the spillover of daily job satisfaction onto daily marital satisfaction and affective states experienced by employees at home. The spillover linkages are modeled at the within-individual level, and results support the main effects of daily job satisfaction on daily marital satisfaction and affect at home, as well as the moderating effect of work-family integration on the strength of the within-individual spillover effects on home affect. That is, employees with highly integrated work and family roles exhibited stronger intraindividual spillover effects on positive and negative affect at home. Modern technologies such as the Internet, cellular phone, Blackberry, iPhone, and other mobile communication devices have enabled employees and their family members to communicate with each other nearly anywhere, anytime. Moreover, flexible work arrangements under which employees can complete some work tasks from home are

Advancing Methods in Work-Life Research: Illustrative Studies, Lessons, and Future Challenges

Work-life research has faced criticism for methodological weaknesses. The goal of this symposium is to advance understanding of work-life research by bringing together a group of scholars experienced in diverse methodological issues to briefly share the research questions, the approaches used in four illustrative papers, before addressing lessons learned, methodological challenges faced, and suggestions for improving work-life research methods. The range of methodological issues addressed include: 1) measurement equivalence of the same scales used to assess change over time in a two contrasting settings: a low income and high income workforce in different industries: 2) a literature review of methodological gaps in widely used work- family conflict constructs and typical studies; 3) challenges in examining dyadic work-family conflict congruence with couples as the unit of analysis; and 4) the triangulation of critical incident techniques and qualitative methods to help tease out the causal ordering of var...