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Mindfulness buffers the deleterious effects of workaholism for work-family conflict

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  • Carole Daniel

    (SKEMA Business School)

  • Elodie Gentina

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jessica Mesmer-Magnus

    (Cameron School of Business, University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Abstract

RationaleWorkaholism logically corresponds to the experience of work-family conflict (WFC) which is associated with a wide variety of negative employee outcomes. Finding ways to mitigate the occurrence of workaholism and/or lessen its deleterious effects on the work-family interface is practically important. Mindfulness research may hold some promise in this regard.ObjectiveWe explore the potential that mindfulness - through its association with accuracy and salience of present moment experience and disengagement from automatic thoughts and debilitating behavior - may buffer the effects of workaholic tendencies on the experience of WFC.MethodsWe use a two-study design (total n = 1022) to examine the role of dispositional mindfulness and mindfulness practice on the workaholism-WFC relationship.ResultsResults suggest that (1) trait mindfulness buffers the workaholism-WFC relationship (Study 1; n = 307), and that (2) mindfulness practice and mindfulness training similarly buffer this relationship (Study 2; n = 715).ConclusionMindfulness effectively serves as a buffer in the relationship between workaholism and WFC.

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  • Carole Daniel & Elodie Gentina & Jessica Mesmer-Magnus, 2022. "Mindfulness buffers the deleterious effects of workaholism for work-family conflict," Post-Print hal-03977351, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03977351
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115118
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