domain. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, multiple roles may be perceived as beneficial to women, and they may not feel as much conflict about their work and family roles competing as men do. In addition, recent research suggested men now experience more conflict between work and family compared to women (Aumann et al., 2011). As men are becoming more involved in the home, they may not have the time to complete their work tasks at home; therefore, leading to their feelings of being overloaded with work. Perhaps the workplaces of these men involved in frequent work travel do not have a workplace culture or policies that support job flexibility for men, which also may lead to more feelings of not having enough time to complete their work tasks (Aumann et al., 2011). As for the connection between work overload and marital conflict, work overload did not add to the understanding of marital conflict or parental engagement. In other words, the feeling of being overloaded with work did not spill over from their work role into family roles. This is contrary to past research that supports the spillover perspective that feelings of work overload influenced relationship conflict and work-family conflict (Perry-Jenkins et al., 2007; Ransford et al., 2008; Skinner & Pocock, 2008). The sample used in my study reported on the whole a moderate amount of work overload. These results suggest that the travelers could have been feeling overloaded at their job, but they may have been able to leave the negative emotions at work, and especially so given that they spent quite a bit of time away from home due to traveling. Also, due to the limitations of a questionnaire about their experiences of work overload, I was not able to examine the day-to-day variation in feeling overloaded. It is possible that travelers may feel more overloaded on a trip because they may feel they are expected to work the entire trip (Gustafson, 2012), and since the travelers are not returning to their home
domain. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, multiple roles may be perceived as beneficial to women, and they may not feel as much conflict about their work and family roles competing as men do. In addition, recent research suggested men now experience more conflict between work and family compared to women (Aumann et al., 2011). As men are becoming more involved in the home, they may not have the time to complete their work tasks at home; therefore, leading to their feelings of being overloaded with work. Perhaps the workplaces of these men involved in frequent work travel do not have a workplace culture or policies that support job flexibility for men, which also may lead to more feelings of not having enough time to complete their work tasks (Aumann et al., 2011). As for the connection between work overload and marital conflict, work overload did not add to the understanding of marital conflict or parental engagement. In other words, the feeling of being overloaded with work did not spill over from their work role into family roles. This is contrary to past research that supports the spillover perspective that feelings of work overload influenced relationship conflict and work-family conflict (Perry-Jenkins et al., 2007; Ransford et al., 2008; Skinner & Pocock, 2008). The sample used in my study reported on the whole a moderate amount of work overload. These results suggest that the travelers could have been feeling overloaded at their job, but they may have been able to leave the negative emotions at work, and especially so given that they spent quite a bit of time away from home due to traveling. Also, due to the limitations of a questionnaire about their experiences of work overload, I was not able to examine the day-to-day variation in feeling overloaded. It is possible that travelers may feel more overloaded on a trip because they may feel they are expected to work the entire trip (Gustafson, 2012), and since the travelers are not returning to their home
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