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Abstract
Studies have found anger at others at home (AOH) to be associated with job-related stress, and work-to-home interference (WHI). These findings suggest that WHI may mediate the translation of stress about work into AOH. This study investigates the associations of work-related worries, and anger about work, with worries about home and AOH. WHI is investigated as a mediator of the translation of job worry into AOH, and spillover of moods between work and home. Gender, age and job control are investigated as moderators of those associations. Data are from a telephone survey of employed residents of Toronto, Canada who are living with others. The results suggest that WHI mediates the spillover of worries between work and home, but not the spillover of anger or the translation of job worries into AOH. The moderation analyses suggest that WHI increases AOH only among people with low job control.
Acknowledgment
This research was supported by a grant from the SSHRC Canada. I thank Paul Glavin for comments on an earlier draft.
Notes
1 Anger that is mixed with shame is especially likely to be at last partially repressed according to some prominent theories of emotion (CitationScheff & Retzinger, 1991; CitationTurner, 2010). When this repression occurs the cause of anger is unrecognized, even if the anger is felt. When the cause of anger is unrecognized, it may be attributed to factors that did not initially generate the anger.
2 A sensitivity analysis (available upon request) indicates that the pattern of results does not vary when categories are collapsed or expanded.
3 Previous research (CitationCollett & Lizardo, 2010) found occupational education to have a quadratic relation with anger. I therefore evaluated the significance of squared terms for measures of work control, and education. None of those squared terms were close to statistically significant.