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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Longitudinal investigation on personality traits and mental health relationships: the mediating role of work-family interference and enhancement
Beteiligte:
Semerci, Anil;
Volery, Thierry
Erschienen:
Termedia Sp. z.o.o., 2019
Erschienen in:Current Issues in Personality Psychology
Beschreibung:
<jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the Big Five personality traits on work-family interference/enhancement and mental health using a three-wave longitudinal design.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants and procedure</jats:title><jats:p>The paper draws on a sample (N = 886) from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey. Structural equa-tion modeling was used to examine the measures of the variables and assess their associations across three time periods.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>The results indicate that conscientiousness and emotional stability are the personality traits that are associated with work-to-family enhancement over time. In addition, work-to-family enhancement is a mediator between emotional stability and mental health. Overall, there exists a positive reciprocal relationship between work-to-family enhancement and mental health throughout the three waves.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>This study showed that there is a bidirectional positive link between work-to-family enhancement and mental health. The find-ings suggest that organizations will benefit not only from developing interventions to enrich employees’ work skills, behav-iors/attitudes but also from promoting their mental health and emotional stability. This study is the first to confirm the partial mediation role of work-to-family enhancement between emotional stability and mental health, and bidirectional relations of work-to-family enhancement and mental health. Moreover, the longitudinal design of this study overcomes the limitations of prior cross-sectional studies in evaluating the relationships of constructs.</jats:p></jats:sec>