title: With a Little Help From My Family: A Mixed-Method Study on the Outcomes of Family Support and Workload.
abstract: Our aim was to investigate some predictors and outcomes of family-to-work enrichment (FWE) via a mixed-method approach. We sampled 447 married employees of an Italian factory. Survey results from Study 1 showed that emotional support from family positively predicted FWE, while this latter mediated the associations between the former on one side, and work engagement and life satisfaction on the other. Moreover, extra-household support directly associated positively with life satisfaction. Evidence from 20 anthropological in-depth interviews (Study 2) returned a more complex picture, highlighting the gendered role of partners inside couples, the importance of kinship support, the sense and the value of filiation and parenthood in their connection with job roles, the complex and continuous interplay between family and life domains. In combination, results from both studies stressed the importance of family support; additionally, evidences from Study 2 suggested that FWE could be better understood taking into account crossover dynamics and the compresence of work-to-family enrichment and conflict. In sum, these studies contributed to shed light on FWE dynamics, an under-researched topic in Italy, whose knowledge could be of great empirical and practical value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lo Presti
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy.
authors.forename: Fulvia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: D'Aloisio
authors.affiliation: Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Napoli, Italy; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pluviano
keywords: family support; family workload; family-to-work enrichment; gender issues; mixed-method approach; work-family enrichment