Effects of Major Work/Nonwork Life Events on Boundary Management Preferences

Short Description: Previous research on boundary management has demonstrated that people differ in their preferred extent of segmenting work and nonwork life. Whereas these segmentation preferences have been understood as stable personality traits in previous studies, we suspect long-term changes in response to major work/nonwork life events (e.g., childbirth).

Methodological Details: Respondents were asked to assess a set of items regarding boundary management, such as “I do not like to think about my work life outside of my working hours.” They were then asked to indicate whether a major life event such as a promotion, marriage, loss of a family member, or the like had occurred in recent months.

Contact	Syear	Respondents	Dataset	Variables	Availability	Field	Method	Replication
Regina Kempen (Aalen University of Applied Sciences), Nicolas Müller (Aalen University of Applied Sciences), Svenja Schumacher (University of Osnabrück), Jonas Brüggemann (University of Osnabrück), Kim Kristin Terkuhlen (University of Osnabrück)	2023	tba	Coming with release in 2026		~4/2026	Psychology	Survey items