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Arunas Ziedelis1, Jurgita Lazauskaite-Zabielske1, Ieva Urbanaviciute1
1Center for Organizational Psychology Research, Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Psychological Reports
|November 15, 2025
Summary
Employees can improve work-life balance by proactively crafting boundaries. Prevention-focused strategies, especially protecting nonwork, are most effective, particularly for those who integrate work and personal life.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Work-Life Balance Research
- Job Crafting
Background:
- Employees are increasingly expected to proactively manage work-life balance.
- The effectiveness of various proactive work-life balance strategies remains unclear.
- Self-regulatory focus theory provides a framework for understanding proactive efforts.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate and compare prevention- and promotion-focused work-life balance crafting strategies.
- To examine the impact of these strategies on work-life balance.
- To investigate the moderating role of work-nonwork segmentation preferences.
Main Methods:
- A diverse sample of 1,303 employees completed surveys.
- Measures included work-life balance crafting strategies, work-life balance, and segmentation preferences.
- Correlational and moderation analyses were employed.
Main Results:
- Prevention-focused nonwork boundary crafting showed the strongest positive relationship with work-life balance.
- Prevention-focused work boundary crafting also positively predicted work-life balance.
- Promotion-focused work boundary crafting had a minimal effect.
- Crafting strategies were generally more beneficial for employees with low segmentation preferences.
Conclusions:
- Proactively protecting work and nonwork domains is an effective strategy for achieving work-life balance, especially for individuals who integrate these domains.
- Findings contribute to the job crafting literature by highlighting the differential effectiveness of various crafting strategies.
- Individual differences in boundary management significantly influence the success of crafting efforts.
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