Work-family Conflict And Marital Satisfaction:the Mediation Of Couple's Communication And The Moderation Of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation

With the pace of life gradually accelerated in modern society,competitive pressure become much more heavier,the conflict between work and family is increasingly intensifying,especially for Dual-Working Couples,the negative impact of the conflict is more serious.Many studies have shown that work-family conflict has a significant negative predictive effect on marital satisfaction.But there is little research to explore the internal mechanism that work-family conflict affects marital satisfaction.In view of the fact that many researchers have found couple's communication is an important potential factor which affects marital satisfaction,work-family conflict can cause individual negative emotions,The differences of emotion regulations from a individual or a spouse can cause in different communication results.This study introduces couple's communication pattern and the interpersonal emotion regulation to explore the mechanism that how work-family conflict affect marital satisfaction.This study uses the work-family conflict scale,the couple's communication pattern scale,the interpersonal emotion regulation scale and the marital satisfaction scale,and 248 Dual-Working Couples as subjects.It explores the relationship among work-family conflict,couple's communication pattern,interpersonal emotion regulation and marital satisfaction.The results show that:(1)The work-family conflict of Dual-Working couples has a significant negative predictive effect on their own and their spouse's satisfaction;(2)The husband's communication model has a complete Mediation role between his work-family conflict and his own and spouse's marital satisfaction;(3)The wife's communication model has a complete mediation role in her work-family conflict and her own and her spouse's marital satisfaction;(4)husband's intrinsic affect-improving dimension has a moderation role between the working-family conflict and the marital satisfaction,but other dimensions in the interpersonal emotion regulation don't show a significant moderation effect;(5)The mediating role of husband's communication pattern is moderated by his intrinsic affect-improving.