Department of Human Resource Management, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.
College Student Mental Health Education and Consultation Center, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570216, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 11;20(2):1337. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021337.
Difficulty in balancing the demands of work and nonwork has been shown to be associated with lower physical and psychological health. Grounded on the self-regulation theory, we examined the effect of work-nonwork conflict on general health among employees who transitioned to remote work (remote workers), and we tested whether this association was mediated by impaired self-control capacity. The study further examined the perceived boundary control as a moderator of these associations. We collected two waves of questionnaire data with a one-month interval from 461 remote workers, and the results of regression-based analyses revealed that work-nonwork conflict was negatively related to remote workers' general health through increased self-control capacity impairment. In addition, this indirect effect was weaker for remote workers with higher perceived boundary control than those with lower perceived boundary control. These findings expand our understanding of remote workers' work-nonwork conflict and have practical implications for promoting the general health of remote workers who are experiencing work-nonwork conflict.
工作与非工作之间的平衡困难与较低的身心健康有关。基于自我调节理论，我们检验了工作-非工作冲突对过渡到远程工作的员工（远程工作者）的一般健康的影响，我们还检验了这种关联是否通过自我控制能力受损来介导。该研究进一步检验了感知边界控制作为这些关联的调节因素的作用。我们从 461 名远程工作者那里收集了两波间隔一个月的问卷调查数据，基于回归的分析结果表明，工作-非工作冲突通过自我控制能力受损与远程工作者的一般健康呈负相关。此外，对于感知边界控制较高的远程工作者来说，这种间接效应比感知边界控制较低的远程工作者弱。这些发现扩展了我们对远程工作者工作-非工作冲突的理解，并对促进面临工作-非工作冲突的远程工作者的一般健康具有实际意义。
