Wei H, Wu B, Park H, Deng C. Is exercise good for all? Time- and strain-based work-family conflict and its impacts.
THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2022;
163:230-247. [PMID:
35959695 DOI:
10.1080/00224545.2022.2111251]
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Abstract
While many people believe that exercise can relieve stress and enrich well-being, it is unclear whether this relationship always holds when employees suffer from work-family conflict (WFC). Drawing on the transactional theory of stress and conservation of resources theory, we examine how exercise moderates the impact of time- and strain-based WFC on employees' vitality at work and, subsequently, employees' subjective well-being. With data collected in multiple waves from a sample in China (N = 243), we found that when employees experienced time-based WFC, strong adherence to exercise did not benefit their vitality as weak adherence to exercise did. However, when employees experienced strain-based work interference with family demands, strong (rather than weak) adherence to exercise benefited their vitality. In addition, the moderating effect of exercise on the relationship between WFC and vitality transited to affect employee job satisfaction.
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