Everyday Work-Family Lives: Episodic, Dyadic, and Daily Investigations

This symposium brings together several complementary approaches to examine the work-family interface including episodic, dyadic, and daily lenses. The four presentations focus on using daily diary methods to capture the dynamics involved in employees' work-family lives. The papers examine important outcomes such as work-family time allocation, energetic well-being, work self-esteem, and work-family conflict/enrichment. From four unique perspectives, this group of papers investigates employees' daily work-family situations through different theoretical angles including decision making, crossover, appraisal, and job demands-resources theory.