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Prospective effects of work–time control on overtime, work–life interference and exhaustion in female and male knowledge workers
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Constanze Leineweber,
Göran Kecklund,
Philip Tucker
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Start page: 140349482211500
Swansea University Author:
Philip Tucker
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/14034948221150041
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Aims:Employee-based flexible working hours are increasing, particularly among knowledge workers. Research indicates that women and men use work–time control (WTC; control over time off and daily hours) differently: while men work longer paid hours, women use WTC to counteract work–life interference....
| Published in: | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health |
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| ISSN: | 1403-4948 1651-1905 |
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SAGE Publications
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62454 |
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Aims:Employee-based flexible working hours are increasing, particularly among knowledge workers. Research indicates that women and men use work–time control (WTC; control over time off and daily hours) differently: while men work longer paid hours, women use WTC to counteract work–life interference. In a knowledge-worker sample, we examined associations between WTC and overtime, work–life interference and exhaustion and tested whether gender moderates the mediating role of overtime.Methods:The sample contained 2248 Swedish knowledge workers. Employing hierarchical regression modelling, we examined effects of control over time off/daily hours on subsequent overtime hours, work–life interference and exhaustion in general and in gender-stratified samples. Using conditional process analysis, we tested moderated mediation models.Results:Control over time off was related to less work–life interference (βmen= −0.117; 95% confidence interval (CI): −0.237 to 0.003; βwomen= −0.253; 95% CI: −0.386 to −0.120) and lower exhaustion (βmen= −0.199; 95% CI: −0.347 to −0.051; βwomen= −0.271; 95% CI: −0.443 to −0.100). For control over daily hours, estimates were close to zero. While men worked more overtime (42 min/week), we could not confirm gender moderating the indirect effect of control over time off/daily hours on work–life interference/exhaustion via overtime. Independent of gender, effects of control over time off on work–life interference were partly explained by working fewer overtime hours. |
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| Keywords: |
Work–life balance, burnout, long working hours, flexible work, longitudinal |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (grant number 2013-0448) and NordForsk, the Nordic Programme on Health and Welfare (grant number 74809). |
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