Sandberg, Jonathan G et al. 2013. “What Happens at Home Does Not Necessarily Stay at Home”: The Relationship of Observed Negative Couple Interaction with Physical Health Mental Health, and Work Satisfaction. Journal of Marriage and Family 75:808-821.
This article aims to test a conceptual model for understanding marriage-to-work spillover by using marital interaction as a predictor variable and mental and physical health as the mediator variables. It uses IFIRS (Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales), a data consisting of 281 couples. Three broad research questions: to what extent is a 25-minute observation of actual husband and wife behaviors in negative marital interaction associated with husband and wife work satisfaction? To what extent does an actor’s health (physical and emotional) mediate the relationship between negative couple interaction and his or her work satisfaction? How about that of a partner? They found out that higher levels of negative marital interaction are associated with significantly lower work satisfaction for men. There was not a significant, direct relationship between marital interaction and work satisfaction for the women in this study. This article suggests that marital problems predict depression over time, not vice verse. It also suggests that Intervention that aims at improving the quality of marital interaction is of significant effect on improving the health and mental health of employees, etc.
这篇文章旨在提出一个更好的理论框架来认识婚姻与工作之间的关系，尤其是负面的婚姻沟通对于夫妻双方身心健康以及他们的工作所带来的影响。文章选用了IFIRS (爱荷华家庭互动评测体系）数据库，里面有281对夫妻。文章主要关注三个大问题：第一、在25分钟内的夫妻互动中所观察到的负面因素对于他们的工作满意程度有什么影响？第二、行动者（夫妻中的一方）的身心健康如何在夫妻不良好的互动和工作满意度之间发挥作用的？第三、夫妻中的另一方又是什么情况。通过分析，作者发现对于男性来说，夫妻沟通的负面程度越是高，他的工作满意度就越是低；而对于女性来说，没有显著性关系（可能是因为数据库内的女性大多数是兼职工作状态）。文章现实，是婚姻问题引起了情绪低落以及对于工作的满意程度降低，而不是之前很多研究所证明的，是低落的情绪导致了婚姻关系出现问题。