TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of attribution for work–family conflict episodes and their relation to negative emotions
AU - Shockley, Kristen M.
AU - Gabriel, Allison S.
AU - Yuan, Zhenyu
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by a Small Grant through the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. We thank Elizabeth Boyd for her assistance in the study development and data collection process.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Many employees commonly deal with situations where their work and family lives are in conflict. Yet, scholarly understanding of how these episodic experiences influence employees' cognitions (i.e., attributions) and emotions is still limited. Further, the emergent line of work–family research on attributions tends to adopt a variable-centric approach by investigating the effects of attributional dimensions in isolation, thus precluding a holistic view of how individuals form profiles of attributions in response to work–family conflict episodes. To advance the work–family literature, we employed an experience sampling design across 12 days to investigate profiles of attributions and the resultant discrete negative emotions (e.g., guilt, shame, regret, anger, frustration, and resentment) associated with work–family conflict in full-time employees with children. Multilevel latent profile analysis (MLPA) results revealed meaningfully different profiles of attributions that tended to occur in reaction to conflicts between work and family, with these profiles differing based upon direction of the conflict episode (i.e., work-interfering-with-family [WIF] vs. family-interfering-with-work [FIW]). Further, these attributional profiles, especially those associated with FIW episodes, differentially related to distinct negative emotions. Overall, our findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of profiles of attributions following work–family conflict episodes, with critical implications for affective well-being.
AB - Many employees commonly deal with situations where their work and family lives are in conflict. Yet, scholarly understanding of how these episodic experiences influence employees' cognitions (i.e., attributions) and emotions is still limited. Further, the emergent line of work–family research on attributions tends to adopt a variable-centric approach by investigating the effects of attributional dimensions in isolation, thus precluding a holistic view of how individuals form profiles of attributions in response to work–family conflict episodes. To advance the work–family literature, we employed an experience sampling design across 12 days to investigate profiles of attributions and the resultant discrete negative emotions (e.g., guilt, shame, regret, anger, frustration, and resentment) associated with work–family conflict in full-time employees with children. Multilevel latent profile analysis (MLPA) results revealed meaningfully different profiles of attributions that tended to occur in reaction to conflicts between work and family, with these profiles differing based upon direction of the conflict episode (i.e., work-interfering-with-family [WIF] vs. family-interfering-with-work [FIW]). Further, these attributional profiles, especially those associated with FIW episodes, differentially related to distinct negative emotions. Overall, our findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of profiles of attributions following work–family conflict episodes, with critical implications for affective well-being.
KW - attributions
KW - emotion
KW - experience sampling methodology
KW - multilevel latent profile analysis
KW - work–family conflict
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U2 - 10.1002/job.2597
DO - 10.1002/job.2597
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122739109
VL - 43
SP - 643
EP - 661
JO - Journal of Organizational Behavior
JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior
SN - 0894-3796
IS - 4
ER -