TY - JOUR
T1 - What's love got to do with it?
T2 - A resource-based actor-partner interdependence model of how coworker work-family support shapes the creativity of dual earner couples
AU - Stollberger, Jakob
AU - Las Heras, M.
AU - Rofcanin, Y.
N1 - The 81th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021: Bringing the Manager Back in Management
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - This study examines the role of spousal love for the work-home dynamics that link coworker family support to the work-related creativity of dual earner couples. Relying on the work-home resources model as conceptual framework, we investigate the work-to-home spillover of coworker family support onto spousal family support, the crossover of family support at home, and the reverse home-to-work spillover of family support onto the creativity of both members of a couple through growth experiences (i.e., family crafting at home for the spouse providing support and flow at work for the partner receiving support). We further test whether spousal love moderates the dynamic mechanisms that connect coworker family support to work-related creativity. Results of an experience-sampling study, whereby 145 dual earner couples completed weekly surveys for six weeks, support our model. We find that on weeks with higher coworker family support, couples report greater family support provision and receipt, which leads to growth experiences and higher creativity at work. We also demonstrate that coworker family support only enables positive work-home dynamics for creativity in case of high spousal love. We conclude that spousal love is a catalyst for work-home enrichment, offering meaningful implications for research on creativity and the work-home interface.
AB - This study examines the role of spousal love for the work-home dynamics that link coworker family support to the work-related creativity of dual earner couples. Relying on the work-home resources model as conceptual framework, we investigate the work-to-home spillover of coworker family support onto spousal family support, the crossover of family support at home, and the reverse home-to-work spillover of family support onto the creativity of both members of a couple through growth experiences (i.e., family crafting at home for the spouse providing support and flow at work for the partner receiving support). We further test whether spousal love moderates the dynamic mechanisms that connect coworker family support to work-related creativity. Results of an experience-sampling study, whereby 145 dual earner couples completed weekly surveys for six weeks, support our model. We find that on weeks with higher coworker family support, couples report greater family support provision and receipt, which leads to growth experiences and higher creativity at work. We also demonstrate that coworker family support only enables positive work-home dynamics for creativity in case of high spousal love. We conclude that spousal love is a catalyst for work-home enrichment, offering meaningful implications for research on creativity and the work-home interface.
UR - https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/past-annual-meetings/2021-bringing-the-manager-back-in-management
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11535abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11535abstract
M3 - Meeting Abstract
SN - 2376-7197
VL - 2021
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
ER -
