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Anticipated Regret In Time-Based Work-Family Conflict, Jessica Bagger, Jochen Reb, Andrew Li
Anticipated Regret In Time-Based Work-Family Conflict, Jessica Bagger, Jochen Reb, Andrew Li
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the role of anticipated regret in time-based work-family conflict decisions.
A total of 90 working parents responded to a decision making problem describing a time-based conflict between a work event and a family event. Participants' preference for which event to attend constituted the dependent variable. Independent variables were participants' work and family centralities. Anticipated regret for choosing the work option and anticipated regret for choosing the family option were measured as hypothesized mediators.
Structural equation modeling revealed that anticipated regret for choosing the family option mediated the relationship between work centrality …