›› 2020, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 1432-1437.

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Relationship between Psychological Detachment and Life Satisfaction of Preschool Teachers: the Moderating Effect of Family Stress

1,2,Xing-Liang Qi1   

  1. 1. Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
    2. Taicang Chengxiang Preschool Education Center
  • Received:2019-09-09 Revised:2020-09-06 Online:2020-11-15 Published:2021-01-03
  • Contact: Xing-Liang Qi

心理解脱与幼儿教师生活满意度的关系:家庭压力的调节作用

张淑婷1,2,齐星亮1   

  1. 1. 南京晓庄学院
    2. 太仓市城厢镇幼教中心
  • 通讯作者: 齐星亮

Abstract: Time after work is the time to recover from work. Psychological detachment is an important process of work recovery. Release from work is beneficial to relieving the impact of work stress on workers' physical and mental health. However, as the main place of workers' spare time life, the burden it brings to workers may affect workers' psychological detachment. Many studies have found that working at home may reduce psychological detachment of workers, but few studies have examined the role of stress directly from family in the process of psychological detachment. Family stress may regulate the relationship between psychological detachment and health of workers. As a typical subject group in work stress research, preschool teachers are more likely to be observed. Because of the high proportion of females, their interaction between family stress and psychological detachment may be different . In this study, 215 preschool teachers in Jiangsu province were selected as subjects. We investigated the mechanism of family stress affecting psychological detachment. In this study, SPSS was used to analyze data. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the mean and standard deviation of each variable. Pearson product difference correlation method was used to calculate the correlation coefficients among variables. Regression analysis was used to examine the moderating effect of family stress on the relationship between psychological detachment and life satisfaction. This study found that family stress can reduce the promoting effect of psychological relief on life satisfaction. Specifically, when the level of family stress is low, life satisfaction increases as the understanding goes. When family stress levels were high, the covariant relationship did not show up. The results suggest that family stress can affect the psychological relief process of workers. The results could extend the stress-release model and support the resource retention theory and the effort-recovery model. However, there are still some limitations in this study. First, cross-sectional design is adopted in this study. Cross-sectional study design could not determine causality. Further research may establish a causal relationship based on it. Second, the results of this study describe only one phenomenon, that is, the family environment may affect the effectiveness of one’s work recovery. However, the mechanism of this phenomenon needs to be further explored. Future research may examine more variables that reflect the mechanism, such as family-work boundary awareness.

Key words: psychological detachment, family stress, life satisfaction, job recovery, work stress, preschool teacher

摘要: 下班后从工作状态中解脱出来有利于减少工作应激对劳动者健康的损害。家庭作为劳动者下班后生活的主要场所。家庭中的压力因素可能影响劳动者的解脱结果。本研究以 215 名幼儿教师为被试,考察家庭压力影响心理解脱结果的机制。结果发现,高家庭压力会削弱心理解脱对生活满意度的正向预测。该结果支持资源保持理论和付出-恢复模型,提示在工作应激相关的职业健康保护中应注意家庭因素的作用。

关键词: 心理解脱, 家庭压力, 生活满意度, 工作恢复, 工作应激, 幼儿教师

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