Conclusion Think about your work and family life and identify the resources and strategies that would help you achieve the best balance. Talk to family and friends about how work and family conflict can increase stress, and about ways to deal with it. Establish a support group at work to share resources and ideas with co-workers. Activities Use the Work-Spillover Checklist to help you identify how your work life influences your family. Areas include marriage, relationships with children, leisure activities and household management.
Couples complete both the worker and spouse checklists.
If both partners are employed, take turns completing each form. If you have a partner and no children or children and no partner, complete only those parts that pertain to you. After you have completed the checklists, add up your score. Higher scores mean greater negative spillover. Couples may want to talk about concerns they have in common, as well as areas where there may be differences.