Work and home boundary violations during the COVID‐19 pandemic
- Autor(en)
- Katja Kerman, Christian Korunka, Sara Tement
- Abstrakt
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of employees faced the challenges of telework. However, the current literature has a limited understanding of the implications of employees' obligated home-based telework and their satisfaction with the work and home domains. We use boundary theory to examine work and home boundary violations in relation to satisfaction with domain investment in two daily diary studies, examining both domain-specific and cross-domain effects. In addition, we examine the moderating role of segmentation preferences in both studies and investigate the mediating role of work- and home-related unfinished tasks in Study 2. Both studies provide empirical evidence of the domain-specific relationship between boundary violations and domain satisfaction and provide limited support for cross-domain effects. Neither study finds support for the notion that segmentation preferences moderate the relationship between boundary violations and domain satisfaction. Finally, the results of Study 2 highlight the importance of unfinished tasks in the relationship between boundary violations and domain satisfaction. Specifically, work and home boundary violations relate to an increase in unfinished tasks in both domains. Finally, the indirect effects suggest that home-related unfinished tasks may be detrimental to satisfaction in both domains, while work-related unfinished tasks may be detrimental for work-related, but not home-related, satisfaction.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie
- Journal
- Applied Psychology
- Band
- 71
- Seiten
- 784-806
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12335
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2021
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501003 Arbeitspsychologie, 501002 Angewandte Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Applied Psychology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/work-and-home-boundary-violations-during-the-covid19-pandemic(ff53dcf7-256f-4249-a828-3a966897eae6).html