%0 Journal Article %J Developmental Psychology %D 2016 %T Effects of Workplace Intervention on Affective Well-Being in Employees’ Children %A Lawson, Katie M %A Davis, Kelly D %A McHale, Susan M %A Almeida, David M %A Kelly, Erin L %A King, Rosiland B %X

Using a group-randomized field experimental design, this study tested whether a workplace intervention—designed to reduce work–family conflict—buffered against potential age-related decreases in the affective well-being of employees’ children. Daily diary data were collected from 9- to 17-year-old children of parents working in an information technology division of a U.S. Fortune 500 company prior to and 12 months after the implementation of the Support-Transform-Achieve-Results (STAR) workplace intervention. Youth (62 with parents in the STAR group, 41 in the usual-practice group) participated in 8 consecutive nightly phone calls, during which they reported on their daily stressors and affect. Well-being was indexed by positive and negative affect and affective reactivity to daily stressful events. The randomized workplace intervention increased youth positive affect and buffered youth from age-related increases in negative affect and affective reactivity to daily stressors. Future research should test specific conditions of parents’ work that may penetrate family life and affect youth well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

%B Developmental Psychology %G eng %U http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2016-11393-001/