Work-Family Conflict and Psychological Well-Being of Tour Leaders: The Moderating Effect of Leisure Coping Styles

Abstract

This study examines the effect of work-family conflict on tour leaders’ psychological well-being and aims to understand the moderating role of leisure coping styles. A total of 288 valid questionnaires were collected from outbound tour leaders. Results show that the work-family conflict has a negative effect on the psychological well-being of tour leaders and that the planned-breather leisure coping style has a positive effect on psychological well-being, and the avoidant leisure coping style has a negative effect. Moreover, the planned-breather leisure coping style can buffer the negative relationship between work-family conflict and psychological well-being, and the avoidant leisure coping style can reinforce the negative relationship between work-family conflict and psychological well-being.

Keywords:

• Avoidant leisure coping style
• planned-breather leisure coping style
• psychological well-being
• tour leader
• work-family conflict

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Grant MOST 103-2410-H-269-001-SSS.