Journal of Northeastern University Natural Science ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 747-753.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2020.05.023

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Impact of Knowledge Workers’ Work Family Conflicts on Creativity:A Modified Mediating Effect Model

ZHANG Lan-xia, WEI Cai-yun, YANG Qin-shuai, FU Jing-yao   

  1. School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China.
  • Received:2019-11-01 Revised:2019-11-01 Online:2020-05-15 Published:2020-05-15
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Abstract: According to the resources conservation theory and emotional event theory, and based on the data collected from 294 knowledge workers, the hierarchical regression analysis method was used to explore the impact of knowledge workers’ work-family conflicts on creativity, and verify the mediating effect of job burnout and the moderating role of emotional intelligence. The results showed that work-family conflicts can significantly negatively predict employees’ creativity; job burnout plays an intermediary role between work-family conflicts and employees’ creativity; emotional intelligence can not only significantly modify the relationship between job burnout and employees’ creativity, but also modify the mediating effect of job burnout between work-family conflicts and employees’ creativity, that is, the higher the level of employees’ emotional intelligence, the weaker the indirect effect of work-family conflicts on employee creativity through job burnout.

Key words: work-family conflict, job burnout, creativity, emotional intelligence, knowledge worker

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