In a first experience sampling study, involving 106 dual - earner couples with young children,
detachment mediated the association between work stress and not only the stressed individual's, but also their partner's relationship quality.
We aim to extend the literature by examining whether
detachment mediates the daily negative spillover from workload to an employee's marital satisfaction.
Secondly,
detachment mediates the relationship between workload and marital satisfaction.
Not exact matches
It assumes the validity of an undialectical objectification of the past, the
detachment of the investigator from the past, and the incapacity of historical criticism to
mediate the past to the present (else why a separate effort called contemporization?).
Immune -
mediated retinal
detachment syndrome typically affects middle - aged and older dogs, is nonpainful, of rapid onset, and eliminates most or all of the functional vision.
Jackson Pollock
mediated through an LCD screen seems an apt metaphor for generational
detachment given his determination to dissolve the barriers between him and his painting, the exterior and interior universe: «When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing,» he declared in 1948.
Lastly, we extended the stressor -
detachment model, by finding support for a curvilinear — on top of the frequently examined linear — effect of workload on
detachment and empirically demonstrating the
mediating role of
detachment.
In addition, previous studies reported high correlations between job stressors and the ability to detach (e.g., Moreno - Jiménez et al., 2009b)-- directing at its possible
mediating role — , whereas this high correlation is not a prerequisite and might even be detrimental for
detachment's moderating role.
The original stressor -
detachment model postulated a moderating as well as a
mediating role of
detachment in the relation between job stressors and well - being outcomes (Sonnentag, 2010).
Triggered by the stressor -
detachment model, scholars recently started paying more attention to
detachment's
mediating role instead of the predominantly examined moderating role of
detachment (Sonnentag and Fritz, 2015).
We found a direct significant negative effect of linear workload on marital satisfaction (i.e., not
mediated by
detachment; 95 % CI for θ = − 0.07 is − 0.12 to − 0.02), whereas our results did not indicate a significant relation between the squared effect of workload and marital satisfaction (95 % CI for θ = 0.01 is − 0.03 to 0.05) on a daily - level.
These results suggest that
detachment from work not only affects the working individual's, but also their close partner's the perception of their interactions, showing that
detachment plays an important
mediating role in the stress spillover and crossover process.
This finding is in line with the stressor -
detachment model that states that
detachment exerts a
mediating role between work stressors and strain reactions (Sonnentag and Fritz, 2015).
In contrast to ample research examining the moderating role (e.g., Moreno - Jiménez et al., 2009a), we will advance the stressor -
detachment model by performing an empirical test and providing evidence for the existence of the proposed
mediating influence of
detachment.
We demonstrated the existence of a curvilinear relationship — on top of the already acknowledged linear relationship — between workload and psychological
detachment and a linear relationship between
detachment and marital satisfaction, before examining and illustrating the
mediating role of
detachment — as defined in the stressor -
detachment model — in the daily relationship between workload and marital satisfaction.
So far, previous diary studies mainly focused on the moderating role (e.g., Sonnentag et al., 2010a) and — to our knowledge — only one study examined the
mediating role of
detachment (ten Brummelhuis and Bakker, 2012).