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

摘要：

经济的快速发展催生了不断加快的社会节奏，生活时间贫穷业已成为人们普遍面临的新常态和新困境。从微观个体层面探索了生活时间贫穷对个体工作-家庭冲突的影响及其内在机制。运用案例分析方法，从时间的质量维度和数量维度出发，揭示了生活时间贫穷与工作-家庭冲突3个维度间的内在联系，并基于此构建了一个生活时间贫穷对工作-家庭冲突影响的整合理论框架。案例研究发现：生活时间贫穷会直接引发基于时间维度的工作-家庭冲突，这种时间维度上的冲突包含了基于物理的时间冲突和基于心理的时间冲突；生活时间贫穷在心理能量损耗的作用下会间接引发基于压力的工作-家庭冲突，心理能量的损耗主要源于工作时间的压力和负面情绪的压力；生活时间贫穷在稀缺心态的作用下主要通过“专注”和“管窥”两条路径间接引发基于行为的工作-家庭冲突。本研究丰富和拓展了生活时间贫穷的研究思路和影响范围，同时也有望对组织和个人的时间管理实践，以及如何化解生活时间贫穷这一难题提供新的理论和实践启示。

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