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Building resilience in love: Investigating the effects of employee resilience on spouse outcomes

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  • Li, Jiamin
  • Xu, Zhicheng
  • Zheng, Baojian
  • Ye, Maolin

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Resilience has attracted increasing attention of scholars and practitioners, and studies have documented the intrapersonal impact of resilience. However, the potential interpersonal effects of resilience across the work and family domains have been somewhat overlooked. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, our research examined the effects of employee resilience on spouse family satisfaction and work engagement via work–family interpersonal capitalization, and the moderating effect of family-supportive supervisor behavior in the resource spillover process. We tested the hypothesized model at both within- and between- person levels and obtained results across two studies with multi-sourced data. The results suggested that resilience triggers employees to engage in work–family interpersonal capitalization, and strengthens spouses’ family satisfaction and work engagement. Moreover, the effect of employee resilience on spouse outcomes was more pronounced for employee when supervisors exhibited family-supportive behavior. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings and provide future research directions.

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  • Li, Jiamin & Xu, Zhicheng & Zheng, Baojian & Ye, Maolin, 2025. "Building resilience in love: Investigating the effects of employee resilience on spouse outcomes," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:192:y:2025:i:c:s0148296325001316
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115308
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