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Akihito Shimazu1, Arnold B Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti
1Department of Mental Health, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. ashimazu@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to examine how job and home demands are related to psychological distress in a sample of Japanese working parents with preschool children (n=196). We expected that job and home demands are partially related to psychological distress through work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC), respectively. Structural equation modeling showed that, as expected, home demands were partially related to psychological distress, both directly and indirectly through FWC. In contrast, job demands were only directly related to psychological distress. The differences between the roles of FWC and WFC are discussed using identity theory.
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