How Post-Work Commuting Supports Work-Family Balance: Leisure Crafting and Family Role Reattachment

Zhenkun Liang; Wenli Lim; Cheng Wang; Guihang Qin; Yunfei Lu; Zhengguang Liu

doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2025.21645poster

How Post-Work Commuting Supports Work-Family Balance: Leisure Crafting and Family Role Reattachment

Zhenkun Liang
, Wenli Lim
, Cheng Wang
, Guihang Qin
, Yunfei Lu
, Zhengguang Liu

Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems

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Abstract

Post-work commuting has a significant yet often overlooked impact on work-life balance. Previous studies have largely ignored the impact of commuting on the family domain of working individuals, thereby neglecting the commuting resources and opportunities that could potentially alleviate work-family conflict in a positive way. Drawing on the work-family boundary theory and conservation of resources theory, we collected a two-wave daily quantitative survey from 216 married commuters. The research identifies the positive effects of two types of post-work commuting activities: leisure crafting in commuting enhances work detachment, thereby reducing levels of work-family conflict, while family-role reattachment plays a crucial moderating role. By employing a positive psychology perspective, this study fills a gap in existing research on the impact of post-work commuting on the family domain, advances cross-domain empirical studies on work-family balance, and offers new practical insights for addressing work-family conflict.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Academy of Management Proceedings 2025
Editors	Sonia Taneja
Publisher	Academy of Management
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.21645poster
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2025
Event	85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2025 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 25 Jul 2025 → 29 Jul 2025 https://aom2025.eventscribe.net/ (Conference website) https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2025/1 (Conference proceedings)

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Name	Academy of Management Proceedings
Publisher	Academy of Management
Number	1
Volume	2025
ISSN (Print)	0065-0668
ISSN (Electronic)	2151-6561

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Conference	85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2025
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	25/07/25 → 29/07/25
Internet address	https://aom2025.eventscribe.net/ (Conference website) https://journals.aom.org/toc/amproc/2025/1 (Conference proceedings)

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Liang, Z, Lim, W, Wang, C, Qin, G, Lu, Y & Liu, Z 2025, How Post-Work Commuting Supports Work-Family Balance: Leisure Crafting and Family Role Reattachment. in S Taneja (ed.), Academy of Management Proceedings 2025. Academy of Management Proceedings, no. 1, vol. 2025, Academy of Management, 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25/07/25. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.21645poster

How Post-Work Commuting Supports Work-Family Balance: Leisure Crafting and Family Role Reattachment. / Liang, Zhenkun; Lim, Wenli; Wang, Cheng et al.
Academy of Management Proceedings 2025. ed. / Sonia Taneja. Academy of Management, 2025. (Academy of Management Proceedings; Vol. 2025, No. 1).

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