The relevance of work-related rumination and boundary control for spillover effects from work to home: results from a diary study
通过日记研究发现，工作量通过情感反刍和问题解决沉思两种路径影响工作对家庭的增益，边界控制调节了问题解决沉思的路径。
Quantitative job demands were inconsistently related to work-to-family enrichment in prior research. Building on the work-home resources model and boundary theory, we argue that this might be due to quantitative job demands simultaneously depleting and gaining resources with implications for work-to-family enrichment through two forms of work-related rumination (i.e. affective rumination and problem-solving pondering). We further propose that boundary control is a moderating factor, explaining when quantitative job demands are primarily resource-depleting or -gaining. Overall, the results from a 10-day daily diary study with two daily measurement points in a sample of 118 employees (n = 908 after work and n = 857 evening responses) largely support our hypotheses. Specifically, we found an indirect negative association between quantitative job demands and work-to-family enrichment via affective rumination and an indirect positive association via problem-solving pondering. Boundary control attenuated the indirect path via problem-solving pondering but, unexpectedly, not via affective rumination. We discuss how these findings advance the work-home resources model and the work-family literature.