Dissertation
Meta-Analytic Associations Between Enclosing, Enabling, and Enriching Work-Life Supports and Work-Life Interface
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005236
Abstract
As more women enter the job market and double-income couples increase, work-life interface has become an important issue for the well-being of individuals. Defined as discretionary and formal organizational policies, services, and benefits designed to help "work-life" management (not limited to "work-family"), work-life supports were expected to bring positive effects on numerous aspects of the work-life interface (i.e., work-life conflict, work-life enrichment, work-life balance). However, previous literature has shown inconsistent or weak effects of work-life supports on work-life interface. To better understand this, Bourdeau et al. (2019) proposed a conceptualization of enclosing and enabling supports based on organizational control perspectives to explain these differing effects of work-life supports. Building on Bourdeau et al.’s (2019) work, I suggest expanding the categorization of work-life supports into enclosing, enabling, enriching, and ensuring supports. Moreover, relying on the personal resource allocation (PRA) framework, I aimed to explain the relationship between enclosing, enabling, and enriching supports and work-life interface. Furthermore, individual differences (i.e., gender, marital/cohabiting status, and dependent care responsibility) and national work-life policies were examined as moderators. Using 168 primary studies with 189 samples, the results showed that enabling supports were negatively related to work-life conflict, and positively associated with work-life enrichment and balance. These relationships were stronger for availability than use. Further, enabling supports were more strongly related to work-to-life conflict than life-to-work conflict. On the other hand, the associations between enclosing and enriching supports and work-life conflict were largely not significant. However, I found positive associations between enriching supports and work-life enrichment and balance. Most individual moderation analyses were not significant, while national work-life policies (e.g., paid leave, maximum wage replacement rate of paid leave) attenuated the relationships of enabling supports with work-life conflict and work-life balance. The discussion section presents theoretical (e.g., if the organizational control perspective helps to clarify the weak and mixed results of previous work-life literature) and practical (e.g., what kinds of work-life supports are most effective in reducing conflict, increasing enrichment and balance) implications. Moreover, limitations of this study (e.g., the limited number of studies on enriching supports and work-life enrichment/balance) and future research directions are provided.
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- Title
- Meta-Analytic Associations Between Enclosing, Enabling, and Enriching Work-Life Supports and Work-Life Interface
- Creators
- Hyun Jung Lee
- Contributors
- Tahira M Probst (Advisor)Chun Chu Chen (Committee Member)Arthur W Blume (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 166
- Identifiers
- 99901019635401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation