关键词: 生活时间贫穷, 时间质量, 时间数量, 稀缺心态, 工作-家庭冲突

Abstract:

Given the rapid economic development that has contributed to the constant acceleration of social rhythm, life time poverty has evolved into a new normal and a new dilemma facing people. In this paper, an experiment is conducted to explore the impact of life time poverty on work-family conflict and its underlying mechanism on an individual level. A case analysis is conducted to reveal the intrinsic relationship between life time poverty and the three dimensions of work-family conflict from the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of time. In addition, an integrated theoretical framework is constructs for the impact of life time poverty on work-family conflict. The findings of this study indicate that life time poverty will contribute directly to work-family conflict from the dimension of time, including physical time conflict and psychological time conflict. In addition, life time poverty is an indirect contributor to the strain-based work-family conflict under the effect of mental energy depletion, which stems mainly from the pressure of working time and negative emotions. Moreover, life time poverty contributes indirectly to behavior-based work-family conflict under the effect caused by the mindset of time scarcity, with focus and tunneling as the two major pathways. This study contributes to enriching the research ideas of time poverty and making its influence wider. It is expected to provide more enlightenment for organizations and individuals to perform time management and address time poverty in theory and practice.

Key words: life time poverty, quality of time, quantity of time, scarcity mindset, work-family conflict