Factors Influencing Work-Family Conflict Among Dual-Career Couples: A Research Framework

Abstract

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to examine the factors influencing work-family conflict among dual-career couples. This study based on an extensive review of past research on work-family conflict among dual-career couples. Total 150 items sourced from the literature both from quantitative and qualitative were used in the analysis, of which about 10 percent was from Asia and the rest from Western countries from 1985 to 2020. However, 60 per cent of them were use in this analysis. The paper offers a number of propositions that explains the proposed model of work-family conflict. Future researches are recommended to test and validate the framework to provide empirical evidence. Upon model validation, the paper can offer practical interventions for human resource development (HRD) practitioners to help dual-career couples in managing work-family conflict issue. The paper proposes the relationship between organization social support, time-management, types of dual-career couples and work-family conflict among dual-career couples. Besides that, this paper also theorizes work-family conflict among dual-career couples by integrating the theory of conservation of resource and gender role theory. The research contributes to literature in workfamily and HRD.

Women’s work–family conflict and its consequences in commuter marriages: The moderating role of spouses’ family commitment in a dyad analysis

“…Therefore, WFC is often regarded as a kind of stress ( Carlson et al, 2000 ). Couples in CMs share family responsibilities and job demands simultaneously ( Krishnan et al, 2020 ) and require much time and energy to satisfy the work and family domains. As far as CMs are concerned, women tend to bear higher work and life stress levels than men because they need to participate more in family affairs, which consumes significant energy ( Puchmüller and Fischlmayr, 2017 ).…”