@article{ref1,
title="Work-family conflict and depressive symptoms among Chinese employees: cross-level interaction of organizational justice climate and family flexibility",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2020",
author="Zhou, Mingjie and Zhang, Jinfeng and Li, Fugui and Chen, Chen",
volume="17",
number="19",
pages="e6954-e6954",
abstract="This study aims to examine how organizational and family factors protect employees from depressive symptoms induced by work-family conflict. With a cross-sectional design, a total of 2184 Chinese employees from 76 departments completed measures of work-family conflict, organizational justice, family flexibility, and depressive symptoms. The results showed that work-family conflict including work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict was positively associated with depressive symptoms. In cross-level analysis, organizational justice climate weakened the adverse effect of work-family conflict on depressive symptoms and the buffering effects of procedural and distributive justice climate in the association between work-family conflict and depressive symptoms depended on family flexibility. Specifically, compared with employees with high family flexibility, procedural and distributive justice climate had a stronger buffering effect for employees with low family flexibility. These results indicate that organization and family could compensate each other to mitigate the effect of work-family conflict on employees' depressive symptoms. Cultivating justice climate in organization and enhancing family flexibility might be an effective way to reduce employees' depressive symptoms.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph17196954",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17196954"
}