Spouses’ family‑work interactions and their contribution to marital and job satisfaction
Spouses’ family‑work interactions and their contribution to marital and job satisfaction

Summary/Abstract: This research investigates the relationship between positive and negative family‑work interactions and marital and job satisfaction. We analyzed each spouse’s effects of positive/negative family‑work interactions on marital and job satisfaction. Also, we computed a similarity score (Absolute Difference Score) for the couples and we verified its predictive power on the marital/job satisfaction of each spouse. The participants were spouses from 47 married heterosexual Romanian couples. The results indicate that females’ work to family conflict (as a form of negative interaction) predicts their marital satisfaction and their work to family enhancement (as a form of positive interactions) predicts their job satisfaction. For males, their spouses’ family to work conflict and the similarity in family to work enhancement predict marital satisfaction. Also, males’ work to family enhancement predicts their job satisfaction. We discuss the results, explaining both the individual and the cross‑spouse interactions.

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