When forgetting what happened at work matters: The role of affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, and self-control in work–family conflict and enrichment.

= 231), affective rumination was positively related to work-family conflict and negatively to work-family enrichment, whereas problem-solving pondering was unrelated to work-family conflict and positively related to work-family enrichment. In Study 2, a within-person daily diary study over 1 workweek (N = 103), affectively ruminating more than usual was related to more work-family conflict than usual and to less enrichment than usual. Moreover, average affective rumination over 1 workweek was negatively related to average work-family enrichment. Problem-solving pondering was unrelated to work-family conflict and enrichment within persons, but was positively related to work-family enrichment between persons. Neither study supported the hypothesis that trait self-control would buffer the negative consequences of affective rumination. Overall, these results emphasize the importance of investigating the consequences of specific types of integrating work into home rather than overall tendencies of doing so. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).