The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine whether polychronicity, an individual difference variable that involves a preference for multitasking, moderates the relationships between work-family conflict (WFC) and two work criteria, job satisfaction and work engagement; second, to examine two measures of polychronicity (the multitasking preference inventory (MPI) and the inventory of polychronic values (IPV)) and investigate whether polychronicity moderates the relationships between WFC and work criteria differently when measured by the MPI or the IPV.,The study’s sample included 257 respondents from the Amazon Mechanical Turk service who completed an online survey. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to test whether polychronicity moderated the relationships between WFC and two work criteria, job satisfaction and work engagement.,Polychronicity was found to significantly moderate the relationship between the work engagement and WFC. Follow-up analyses indicated that those who were lower in polychronicity had a significant decrease in work engagement as WFC increased, whereas those who were higher in polychronicity had relatively the same work engagement level regardless of changes in WFC. The results suggest that individuals higher in polychronicity have more personal resources and may be more resilient than those lower in polychronicity when it comes to not letting conflicts between their work and family lives affect how engaged they feel in their work.,This study extends the application of polychronicity to new domains of WFC and work engagement. The current study also contributed to the literature by investigating two measures of polychronicity (MPI and IPV) and finding that the MPI significantly moderated the relationship between WFC and work engagement, but the IPV did not. These findings indicate that there are important differences between the MPI and the IPV, and additional research is needed in comparing these two polychronicity measures.

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调查多时性，工作家庭冲突，工作满意度和工作投入之间的关系

本文的目的是双重的：首先，检查多时性（一个涉及多任务处理偏好的个体差异变量）是否缓和了工作与家庭冲突（WFC）与两个工作标准（工作满意度和工作投入）之间的关系；其次，检查多时性的两种度量（多任务偏好清单（MPI）和多时性值（IPV）的清单），并研究多时性在以MPI或IPV衡量时是否以不同的方式缓解了WFC与工作标准之间的关系。该研究的样本包括257位来自Amazon Mechanical Turk服务的受访者，他们完成了在线调查。进行了多元回归分析，以检验多时性是否缓解了WFC与两个工作标准之间的关系，工作满意度和工作投入。，发现多时性可以显着缓解工作投入和WFC之间的关系。后续分析表明，随着WFC的增加，多时性较低的人的工作投入显着减少，而多时性较高的人的工作投入水平却相对相同，而与WFC的变化无关。结果表明，在不让工作与家庭生活之间的冲突影响他们对工作的投入感方面，多时性较高的人比多时性较低的人拥有更多的个人资源，并且可能更具弹性。多时性到WFC的新领域和工作投入。当前的研究还通过调查两种多时性量度（MPI和IPV）并发现MPI显着缓和了WFC与工作投入之间的关系，也为文献做出了贡献，但IPV没有。这些发现表明，MPI和IPV之间存在重要差异，并且在比较这两种多时性度量时还需要进行其他研究。