Going beyond work and family: A longitudinal study on the role of leisure in the work-life interplay.

ABSTRACT: Going beyond the relation of work and family, the present three-wave longitudinal study spanning one year assessed different forms of conflict and facilitation between leisure and the life domains work and family and their relation to subjective well-being. A sample of N = 277 employed men and women reported their perceived conflict and facilitation between leisure, work, and family and subjective well-being. Results suggest that leisure is a source of facilitation for work and family, and, at the same time, a major recipient of conflict from work and family. Moreover, leisure conflict was negatively correlated and leisure facilitation was positively associated with concurrent subjective well-being. Both conflict and facilitation between all three life domains remained highly stable over t

SUBMITTER: Knecht M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084294 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature