“…The contribution of long working hours to “work-family spillover” and associated stress has been well documented internationally (e.g., Grosswald, 2004; Grzywacz, Almeida, & McDonald, 2005), and there is evidence that this occurs among mining workers. For example, Oldfield and Mostert (2007) found relationships between job demands, ill health, and work–home interference among South African miners, while Jacobs, Mostert, and Pienaar (2008) showed that among a sample of Afrikaans and Setswana mining workers, the consequences of work pressure, heavy workload, stress, and family obligations included a lack of quality time for the self and family, physical and emotional strains, and low levels of productivity. However, these South African observations may not be generalizable to other countries.…”