title: Effects of workplace intervention on affective well-being in employees' children.
abstract: Using a group-randomized field experimental design, this study tested whether a workplace intervention-designed to reduce work-family conflict-buffered against potential age-related decreases in the affective well-being of employees' children. Daily diary data were collected from 9- to 17-year-old children of parents working in an information technology division of a U.S. Fortune 500 company prior to and 12 months after the implementation of the Support-Transform-Achieve-Results (STAR) workplace intervention. Youth (62 with parents in the STAR group, 41 in the usual-practice group) participated in 8 consecutive nightly phone calls, during which they reported on their daily stressors and affect. Well-being was indexed by positive and negative affect and affective reactivity to daily stressful events. The randomized workplace intervention increased youth positive affect and buffered youth from age-related increases in negative affect and affective reactivity to daily stressors. Future research should test specific conditions of parents' work that may penetrate family life and affect youth well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University.
authors.forename: Katie M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.affiliation: Human Development & Family Sciences, Oregon State University.
authors.forename: Kelly D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: McHale
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management.
authors.forename: Erin L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
authors.forename: Rosalind B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*