This study investigates how cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility (i.e. to coordinate with others, to structure work tasks and to organize work and private obligations) relate to work–home outcomes among health care professionals. To understand the underlying psychological mechanisms of the relationship between cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility and work–home outcomes, we combined the challenge–hindrance approach with role theory. We hypothesized a positive relationship between cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility and work–home conflict via cognitive effort (strain process) and between cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility and work–home enrichment via learning to self-organize (learning process). Eighty-eight health care professionals working in eldercare homes participated in a diary study and provided 407 day-level datasets. They completed questionnaires twice a day over 5 working days. Our analyses show that the relationships between daily cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility and work–home outcomes depend on strain and learning processes. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that cognitive demands resulting from employer-oriented flexibility, although ambivalently related to work–home outcomes on the person level, trigger distinct strain and learning processes on the day level: daily coordinating with colleagues and daily structuring work tasks were related to work–home conflict via cognitive effort, whereas daily organizing work and family obligations was associated with work–home enrichment via learning to self-organize.

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医疗保健领域以雇主为导向的灵活工作：关于由此产生的认知需求及其与工作-家庭结果的关系的日记研究

本研究调查了以雇主为导向的灵活性（即与他人协调、安排工作任务以及组织工作和私人义务）所产生的认知需求与医疗保健专业人员的工作-家庭结果之间的关系。为了理解雇主导向的灵活性所产生的认知需求与工作-家庭结果之间关系的潜在心理机制，我们将挑战-阻碍方法与角色理论结合起来。我们假设以雇主为导向的灵活性所产生的认知需求与通过认知努力（应变过程）产生的工作与家庭冲突之间存在正相关关系，以及以雇主为导向的灵活性所产生的认知需求与通过学习自组织（学习过程）丰富工作与家庭之间存在正相关关系。 ）。88 名在养老院工作的医疗保健专业人员参与了一项日记研究，并提供了 407 个日级数据集。他们在 5 个工作日内每天完成两次调查问卷。我们的分析表明，以雇主为导向的灵活性所产生的日常认知需求与工作-家庭结果之间的关系取决于压力和学习过程。此外，我们的结果表明，以雇主为导向的灵活性所产生的认知需求，尽管与个人层面上的工作-家庭结果存在矛盾关系，但会在日常层面上引发不同的压力和学习过程：与同事的日常协调和日常构建工作任务是相关的通过认知努力来应对工作与家庭的冲突，而日常组织工作和家庭义务则通过学习自我组织来丰富工作与家庭的关系。