TY - JOUR
T1 - Family strains, work passion drains
T2 - The impact of daily family demands on daily work passion
AU - Liang, Yongyi
AU - Asante, Eric Adom
AU - Shi, Lihua
AU - Chen, Kangyu
AU - Guan, Zehui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - Despite numerous benefits, sustaining daily passion for one's work is challenging. While prior research has examined personal and work-related factors that cause fluctuations in daily work passion, the impact of family-related factors remains underexplored. Drawing on the stressor-detachment model, we investigated the effects of daily family demands on daily work passion. Employing a daily diary design involving 161 participants over 3 weeks, this study reveals that high family demands on a given day decreased psychological detachment from family the next day, subsequently lowering employees’ work passion. Furthermore, employees’ work–life balance self-efficacy and availability of family-friendly policies buffer the adverse impact of daily family demands on daily psychological detachment from one's family and attenuate the indirect effects of daily family demands on daily work passion via daily psychological detachment from family. This study extends the literature on work passion and psychological detachment by shifting the focus from work to family domain.
AB - Despite numerous benefits, sustaining daily passion for one's work is challenging. While prior research has examined personal and work-related factors that cause fluctuations in daily work passion, the impact of family-related factors remains underexplored. Drawing on the stressor-detachment model, we investigated the effects of daily family demands on daily work passion. Employing a daily diary design involving 161 participants over 3 weeks, this study reveals that high family demands on a given day decreased psychological detachment from family the next day, subsequently lowering employees’ work passion. Furthermore, employees’ work–life balance self-efficacy and availability of family-friendly policies buffer the adverse impact of daily family demands on daily psychological detachment from one's family and attenuate the indirect effects of daily family demands on daily work passion via daily psychological detachment from family. This study extends the literature on work passion and psychological detachment by shifting the focus from work to family domain.
KW - Availability of family-friendly policies
KW - Family demands
KW - Psychological detachment from family
KW - Work passion
KW - Work–life balance self-efficacy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85215374414&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115186
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115186
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85215374414
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 189
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
M1 - 115186
ER -