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Perceived time adequacy improves daily well-being: day-to-day linkages and the effects of a workplace intervention.

Lee S; McHale SM; Crouter AC; Kelly EL; Buxton OM; Almeida DM

Community Work Fam 2017 Nov; 20(5):500-522

https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2017.1365691

20053027

Workplace interventions may change how employed parents experience family and personal time. This study examined the day-to-day linkages between time resources (assessed by time use and perceived time adequacy for parenting, partner, and personal roles) and daily well-being and tested whether a workplace intervention enhanced the linkages. Participants were employed, partnered parents in the information technology division of a large US firm and who provided eight-day diary data at two times (N = 90). Multilevel modeling revealed that, on days when parents perceived lower time adequacy than usual for the three roles, they reported less positive affect, more negative affect, and more physical symptoms, independent of time spent in the roles. Moreover, a workplace intervention designed to give employees more temporal flexibility and support for family responsibilities increased daily time spent with the focal child and increased perceived time adequacy for exercise. The intervention also decreased negative affect and physical symptoms for parents who spent more time with child and partner than the sample average. Our results highlight the importance of perceived time adequacy in daily well-being and suggest that workplace support can enhance perceived time adequacy for self and the experience of family time.

Workplace studies; Workers; Work environment; Intervention; Families; Humans; Men; Women; Models; Physiology; Physiological function; Psychology; Psychological effects; Author Keywords: Daily diary; daily well-being; perceived time adequacy; time use; workplace intervention

Soomi Lee, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

20171101

Journal Article

smlee@psu.edu

Cooperative Agreement

2018

Cooperative-Agreement-Number-U01-OH-008788

5

1366-8803

Community, Work & Family

OR; MA; PA

Portland State University