The Impact of Mindfulness on Mood Spillover between Family and Work settings: An Exploratory Study
Yi-Nung Peng; Sz-Yu Chen
We studied how individual’s level of mindfulness impacts his or her mood spillover in switching environments, from work to family or from family to work. More specifically, we expected that mindfulness moderates the mood spillover between environments based on the literatures. We recruited 51 participants. They were remind 4 times a day (7am, 12pm, 17pm, and 22pm) by a smartphone social communication App (LINE) to fill out an online survey (on SurveyCake). Thus, we can record their mood in specific time. Results confirmed the phenomenon of mood spillover from family to work and work to family. In addition, the moderating effect of individual mindfulness on mood spillover between family and work. We shed some light on how mindfulness may help individual to achieve work-family balance.