Abstract: It is important to understand the relationship between work and life and to help the adults balance their work and life. In past years, researchers kept focusing on the interaction between work roles and family roles. Recent years, more and more researchers have appealed to going beyond traditional work-family balance, and examining the relationship between work and life. While coping with the diversity needs from work domain and life domains, work-life support from family (WLSF) has been considered to be a crucial resource. Based on the previous literature, this paper extended the concept of WLSF from the life domain perspective. WLSF refers to a series of acts conducted by family members, which can help individuals take the various responsibilities in work domain and life domains. WLSF is a system of work support, family support, personal development support and relationship support. Specifically, work support is to help individuals fulfill the responsibilities better in work domain, and family support is to help individuals fulfill the responsibilities better in home domain, and development support is to help individuals achieve recovery, growth and development, and relationship support is to help individuals maintain a good relationship with significant others (such as lovers, friends, neighbors).WLSF facilitates to fulfill multiple responsibilities better in work and non-work domain, and helps to maintain work-life balance. The effect of WLSF can be achieved by within domain and cross domain. On the one hand, WLSF helps individuals better fulfill their duties in family domain. And WLSF has a positive impact on the family roles performance, such as family time commitment, couples attachment relationships, marital satisfaction and parental identity satisfaction, which is the within domain effect. On the other hand, WLSF also has a positive impact on the performance of the work domain (such as work engagement, work performance and work satisfaction), personal development and social relations, which is the cross domain effect. However, the positive effect of WLSF does not always work effectively. Some boundary conditions may affect the positive effect of WLSF, such as sex and work/occupational similarity. Based on above review, some future research directions were given. Specifically, this paper gave a new dimension of WLSF, future research could examine the dimensional of WLSF and develop appropriate measurements. Then, the previous research paid more attention to positive effects on work domain, family domain and work-family interface, future research could explore positive effects on self-development, social relationships and work-life balance. Future research could expand the research of WLSF boundary conditions and explore the crossover effect of WLSF . Finally, Chinese depend on WLSF and Intergenerational family support exist everywhere, which are different from western, future research can carry out WLSF research under the Chinese cultural background.

Key words: work-life supports from family, work-life balance, life domain perspective

摘要： 家庭支持是帮助个体应对工作和生活领域内的多重角色需求，维持工作-生活平衡的关键资源。在工作-家庭平衡研究的基础上，本文引入工作-生活平衡理念，对家庭支持概念的内涵进行了拓展，探索了家庭支持的维度结构，并梳理了家庭支持对个体维持工作-生活平衡的积极作用。最后，对未来研究方向进行了展望。

关键词: 家庭支持, 工作-生活平衡, 生活领域视角