The effects of using ICT tools on work-family borders : An Empirical Study Based on the Work-Family Border Theory

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  • ICTツール利用と仕事/家族の境界 : ワーク・ファミリー・ボーダー理論に基づく実証的検討(研究発表大会推薦論文)
  • 研究発表大会推薦論文 ICTツール利用と仕事/家族の境界 : ワーク・ファミリー･ボーダー理論に基づく実証的検討
  • ケンキュウ ハッピョウ タイカイ スイセン ロンブン ICT ツール リヨウ ト シゴト/カゾク ノ キョウカイ : ワーク ・ ファミリー ・ ボーダー リロン ニ モトズク ジッショウテキ ケントウ

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One of the features of recent ICT tools is greater alleviation of time and location restraints in communications. Although positive effects of ICT tools for improving work-family balance have been reported, much of the ICT literature stresses negative effects on work-family conflict through increased extra work. This study examines the influence of using ICT tools on work-family life applying work-family border theory to measure the concepts and propose hypotheses. The data came from a sample of 300 male and felame workers having children in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya metropolitan areas via a web questionnaire survey. Multi-group analysis of covariace structure modeling showed that although the degree of using ICT tools had small effects on border permeability, the higher frequency of home-working related to greater temporal permeability of the work-family border. The relationship between permeability and WFC showed an opposite result to that predicted by border theory. WFC was directly increased by the frequency of home-working for the male sub-sample, the degree of using ICT tools for the female sub-sample, and was not mediated by border permeability. As a whole, our results indicated that a higher degree of using ICT tools related to higher work-family conflict.

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