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Spouse’s Work-to-family Conflict, Family Stressors, and Mental Health among Dual-earner Mothers and Fathers
We examine the association between perceptions of spouse’s work-to-family conflict, family stressors, and
mental health outcomes using data from a sample of 1,348 dual-earning parents from a 2011 national survey
of Canadian workers. Based on crossover stress theory and the stress process model, we hypothesize
that perceptions of spouse’s work-to-family conflict are associated with family stressors, which mediate
the association between perceptions of spouse’s work-to-family conflict and respondent’s mental health.
Using ordinary least square regression techniques, we find that perceptions of spouse’s work-to-family
conflict are associated with mental health outcomes as well as secondary family stressors. Furthermore,
the family stressors resulting from perceptions of spouse’s work-to-family conflict facilitate family-to-work
conflict among respondents, which further explains the association between perceptions of spouse’s workto-
family conflict and mental health outcomes.We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of
crossover stress and the stress process model.
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