The Work-Home Nexus: Gender Differences in the Relationship between Negative Spillover and Depression.

This paper describes an analysis of the relationship between negative home/work spillover and depression using a telephone sample of 550 employed respondents in Northeast Ohio. Our analysis addresses three questions; 1) Do home roles and demands in these roles mediate the relationship between negative spillover and depression? 2) Do resources in home and work roles moderate the relationship between negative spillover and depression? 3) Are there gender differences in these relationships? Results indicate that spillover mediates the relationship between job demands and depression, while two role resources, social support and job control moderate the impact of work-to-home spillover on depression. We observe a gender difference in the moderating influence of job control, but no gender differences in the moderating effect of social support. Although both home-to-work and work-to-home spillover are significantly associated with depression among both men and women, there is considerably more variation in the relationship between depression and work-to-home spillover than between depression and home-to-work spillover. We discuss our results in light of the literature on the relationship between work and home and in terms of the implications of our results for work-family policy. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]