当工作或家庭领域中某一个领域内的要素跨越边界进入另一个领域,便发生了工作一家庭边界渗透。以工作家庭边界理论为基础,探究工作一家庭边界渗透对工作家庭平衡的作用效果。采用810名员工问卷,采用层次回归对研究假设进行检验。在控制员工的性别、工龄、职位层次后,不同类别的工作一家庭边界渗透对工作家庭平衡的作用存在显著差异:工作家庭事件渗透或工作家庭心理渗透越多,工作家庭冲突越强,但工作家庭关系渗透越多,工作家庭冲突越弱;工作家庭事件渗透越多,工作家庭促进越强;家庭工作事件渗透越多,家庭工作冲突越强;家庭工作事件渗透越多,家庭工作促进越弱,但家庭工作心理渗透越多,家庭工作促进越强。研究结果表明,工作一家庭边界渗透越多,不代表工作一家庭冲突越强,有些类型的边界渗透会缓解工作一家庭冲突甚至可能带来工作一家庭促进。企业应考量各个类别的边界渗透的影响,为员工提供支持性的工作环境,以帮助员工调节工作家庭平衡。
Work-Family border permeation happens when the elements from work domains enter family domain or the elements from family domains enter work domain. Based on work/family border theory, this paper investigates how work-family border permeation affect work family balance. We collected data among 810 employees with diverse positions in various industries who self-reported the variables. Then we adopt liner regression to test our hypotheses. After controlling for gender, working age and position, there're obvious variance among different types of work-family border permeation' effects on work family balance: work-to-family activities-based border permeation or work-to-family psychological border permeation is positively associated with work-to-family conflict, whereas work-to-family relationship-based permeation is negatively related to work-to-family conflict; work-to-family activities-based border permeation is positively related to work-to-family facilitation; family-to-work activities-based border permeation is positively related to family-to-work conflict; family-to-work activities-based border permeation is negatively related to family-to- work facilitation, while family-to-work psychological border permeation is positively associated with family-to-work facilitation. The results suggested that the increment of work-family border permeation is not related to an increase of work-family conflict, because some types of work-family border permeation will reduce work-family conflict even enhance work-family facilitation. Employers should consider different influence of different types of work-family boundary permeation and provide support for employees to help them balance work and family.