Leader-member exchange and work-family interactions: the mediating role of self-reported challenge- and hindrance-related stress.
The authors examined the relations among 4 components of the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship (i.e., contribution, affect, loyalty, and professional respect) and the level of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation that an employee experiences. Further, the authors examined the mediating role of challenge- and hindrance-related self-reported stress on relations. In doing this, the authors linked positive and negative aspects of LMX, stressors, work-family conflict, and work-family facilitation. Data from a sample of full-time employed individuals support some hypothesized relations between components of LMX and work-family interactions. Also, results support the mediating role of hindrance-related stress in the relation between (a) the affect and loyalty components of LMX and (b) work-family conflict. The authors discuss the implications and limitations of their findings.
Culbertson
Satoris S
SS
Kansas State University, Department of Psychology, 492 Bluemont Hall, 1100 Mid-campus Drive, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. satoris@ksu.edu
Huffman
Ann H
AH
Alden-Anderson
Rachel
R
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010559:Personnel Management; D012380:Role; D012932:Social Facilitation; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*