An examination of crossover and spillover effects of spousal and expatriate cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes.
研究了外派人员与配偶的跨文化适应如何相互影响（交叉效应）以及如何影响工作与非工作领域（溢出效应），发现两者均显著影响外派人员的满意度和提前回国意愿。
Integrating work-family and cross-cultural adjustment literatures, the researchers proposed and tested a spillover and crossover model of expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment with reciprocal relationships. Spillover effects refer to the influence that expatriate attitudes in a particular domain (e.g., work) have on attitudes in other domains (e.g., nonwork), whereas crossover effects refer to the influence of expatriate attitudes on the spouse's attitudes (and vice versa). Data collected from Japanese expatriates, their spouses, and their superiors strongly supported both spillover and crossover effects between expatriate and spousal cross-cultural adjustment. In addition, expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment was found to be related to satisfaction, which, in turn, was found to be negatively related to expatriates' intention to return to their homeland early.