The role of family support in work-family balance and subjective well-being of SME owners

Y. K. Leung; Jinia Mukerjee; Roy Thurik

doi:10.1080/00472778.2019.1659675

The role of family support in work-family balance and subjective well-being of SME owners

Y. K. Leung
, Jinia Mukerjee
, Roy Thurik^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we examine the role of two types of family support—emotional and instrumental support—in work-family balance and subjective well-being of small and medium enterprise (SME) owners. Using a sample of French SME owners, our results show that work-family balance mediates the relationship between family support and subjective well-being of SME owners. Surprisingly, while emotional support has a positive association, instrumental support has a negative association with the subjective well-being of SME owners via work-family balance. We provide a theoretical explanation by integrating COR theory with the threat to self-esteem model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	130-163
Number of pages	34
Journal	Journal of Small Business Management
Volume	58
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2019.1659675
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

conservation of resources theory
emotional support
instrumental support
owners
Small and medium enterprises
subjective well-being
threat to self-esteem model
work-family balance

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