Department of Psychology, San José State University.
Department of Psychology, Portland State University.
J Occup Health Psychol. 2021 Feb;26(1):31-48. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000264. Epub 2020 Oct 29.
Employee family relationships have been increasingly tied to job outcomes and are known to be a strong predictor of employee health and well-being. As such, taking steps toward uncovering actionable tools organizations can implement to foster improvements in family relationship quality is important and should not be overlooked in occupational health psychology interventions. Supportive supervisor training (SST) targets improving employees' ability to meet their nonwork needs; however, the focus and discussions of the implications tied to SST have largely excluded marital and parent-child relationships, spouses, and spousal outcomes. Further, mounting evidence suggests contextual factors shape when SST is most meaningful; however, more research is needed to uncover individual-level factors that may facilitate training effects. This study used a cluster-randomized controlled trial design to evaluate a worksite-based SST with a sample of 250 employees (separated military veterans) and their matched spouses. Using an intent-to-treat approach and 2-level random effects models, results demonstrated that the SST promoted couples' dyadic marital relationship quality 9 months following baseline. Additionally, when employees were under higher levels of baseline stress, couples' dyadic marital relationship quality and positive parenting both improved following the SST. Thus, an SST is beneficial for family relationships as reported by both employees and spouses, which goes beyond previously demonstrated employee health and well-being benefits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
员工的家庭关系越来越与工作结果挂钩，并且被认为是员工健康和幸福的强有力预测因素。因此，寻找组织可以实施的可行工具来促进家庭关系质量的改善是很重要的，在职业健康心理学干预中不应忽视这一点。支持性主管培训（SST）旨在提高员工满足非工作需求的能力；然而，SST 的重点和讨论很大程度上排除了婚姻和亲子关系、配偶和配偶的结果。此外，越来越多的证据表明，背景因素影响 SST 的意义；然而，需要更多的研究来揭示可能促进培训效果的个体因素。本研究采用了一项基于工作场所的 SST 的群组随机对照试验设计，对 250 名员工（退伍军人）及其匹配的配偶进行了研究。采用意向治疗方法和 2 级随机效应模型，结果表明，SST 在基线后 9 个月促进了夫妻二元婚姻关系质量。此外，当员工的基线压力较高时，夫妻二元婚姻关系质量和积极的育儿方式都在 SST 后得到了改善。因此，SST 对员工和配偶双方的家庭关系都有益，这超出了之前证明的员工健康和幸福感的益处。（美国心理协会，2021）。
