This person-centered investigation seeks to understand the main configurations taken by four critical personal characteristics (i.e. personal life orientation, family orientation, commitment to organizational career and work centrality) among distinct profiles of workers. We also aimed to investigate the longitudinal stability of these profiles and of their relations with a series of outcomes (i.e. family-to-work enrichment and conflict, work-to-family enrichment and conflict, organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the organization and substance use at work).
We capitalized on a sample of 415 workers who completed the same set of measures twice across a time interval of three months.
Our results revealed five profiles: Oriented Toward Personal Interests, Highly Family-Oriented, Work-Centered, Normative and Moderately Family-Oriented. These profiles displayed a moderate to high level of stability over time. All outcomes also differed across profiles, with the more adaptive outcomes being associated with the Highly Family-Oriented profile.
The person-centered approach adopted in this study highlights the importance of this joint consideration of various personal characteristics to better understand the combinations of these characteristics and thus provide a more realistic reflection of the reality.
