A Diary Study On Predictors Of The Work-Life Interface: The Role Of Time Pressure, Psychological Climate And Positive Affective States

The present diary study builds upon the work-home resources model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) and the Model of Work-Family Enrichment (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006), and examines time pressure and psychological climate as predictors of work-life conflict and work-life enrichment. We further investigated happiness and vigour as indicators of positive mood and energy as mediators in these associations. Our five-day diary study was conducted via electronic devices with 92 employees (N = 357 matched daily measurements). We assessed daily time pressure, psychological climate, job control (as control variable), happiness, and vigour at work at the end of the working day. In the evening survey, answered before going to bed, we assessed daily work-life conflict and work-life enrichment. Results of nested multilevel path models, controlled for daily job control, revealed that daily time pressure was related to increased work-life conflict and decreased work-life enrichment. Daily psychological climate was negatively related to work-life conflict and positively related to work-life enrichment. Mediation analyses proved an energypath. Vigour mediated the confirmed relations while happiness was no mediator.