Landolfi Alfonso, Barattucci Massimiliano, De Rosa Assunta, Lo Presti Alessandro
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Degli Studi Della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Viale Ellittico, 81100 Caserta, Italy.
Faculty of Psychology, e-Campus University, 22060 Novedrate, Italy.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2021 Oct 6;11(10):136. doi: 10.3390/bs11100136.
Successfully balancing between work and family domains represents a major issue to both employees and employers, especially during COVID-19 pandemic times during which employees are often forced to work from a distance and turn to home-schooling. An occupational group particularly affected by work changes due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions is represented by schoolteachers. We aimed at examining the associations between some job-related and family-related antecedents on the one hand and, on the other, life satisfaction as an outcome, including work-family balance as a mediator. A total of 357 Italian teachers completed a questionnaire at two different times: job control, coworkers support, supervisor support, workload, family support, and family workload were assessed at Time 1; and work-family balance and life satisfaction were assessed at Time 2. Both data collections were performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesized direct and indirect relationships were tested by utilizing structural equation modeling. Significant and positive indirect effects of focal predictors towards life satisfaction through work-family balance were found for job control, supervisor support, and family support. The paper contributed to the literature by testing Grzywacz and Carlson's theoretical conceptualization of work-family balance and by attempting to delineate its repertoire of potential antecedents among schoolteachers. From a practical point of view, the present study emphasizes the crucial role that certain job antecedents and family antecedents play in promoting teachers' work-family balance and life satisfaction.
在工作和家庭领域之间成功取得平衡，对员工和雇主来说都是一个重大问题，尤其是在新冠疫情期间，员工常常被迫远程工作并转向在家教育孩子。受新冠疫情限制导致工作变化影响尤为明显的一个职业群体是教师。我们旨在一方面考察一些与工作相关和与家庭相关的前因，另一方面考察作为结果的生活满意度之间的关联，其中包括将工作 - 家庭平衡作为一个中介变量。共有357名意大利教师在两个不同时间完成了一份问卷：在时间1评估工作控制、同事支持、上级支持、工作量、家庭支持和家庭工作量；在时间2评估工作 - 家庭平衡和生活满意度。两次数据收集均在新冠疫情期间进行。通过使用结构方程模型对假设的直接和间接关系进行了检验。发现工作控制、上级支持和家庭支持通过工作 - 家庭平衡对生活满意度有显著且正向的间接影响。本文通过检验格里瓦茨和卡尔森关于工作 - 家庭平衡的理论概念化，并试图勾勒出其在教师群体中潜在前因的范围，为该文献做出了贡献。从实际角度来看，本研究强调了某些工作前因和家庭前因在促进教师工作 - 家庭平衡和生活满意度方面所起的关键作用。
