@article {BF-2496,
	title = {Work-family conflict and crossover in volunteer emergency service workers},
	journal = {Work \& Stress},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2010},
	month = {10/2010},
	pages = {342 - 358},
	abstract = {A growing literature indicates that organizational and work demands place pressure on the
partners and families of volunteer workers as it does on paid workers. This study evaluated a
conceptual model integrating workfamily conflict and stress crossover theoretical frameworks,
to investigate the mechanisms by which emergency service volunteer work, specifically,
predicts outcomes for the partners of volunteers. Matched data from 102 couples in which one
partner was an Australian emergency services volunteer  firefighter, ambulance officer or
emergency rescue volunteer  were analysed using structural equation modelling analyses.
Findings suggested that one mechanism by which inter-role conflict related to partner
adjustment was through elevated withdrawn marital behaviour and decreased intimacy
reported by the couple, which indirectly affected partners{\textquoteright} distress. This finding regarding
withdrawn behaviour appears to be novel and may also be applicable to paid workers.
Alternative mechanisms involving role overload and angry marital behaviour were not
supported. These findings extend limited research which has adapted organizational theory to
understand processes affecting volunteer workers, and advance conceptual accounts of the
mechanisms through which the partners and families of workers are impacted by inter-role
conflict.},
	doi = {10.1080/02678373.2010.532947},
	author = {Sean Cowlishaw and Lynette Evans and Jim McLennan}
}
