More and more employees aim to be perfect parents. However, it is largely unclear what implications this striving might have. Drawing on central theoretical principles of family-work research, we studied parenting perfectionism and its possible implications for employees' own and their intimate partners' family and work lives. In detail, we investigated how employees' parenting perfectionism relates to overprotection in their role as a parent and whether this overprotection, in turn, relates to employees' own family-work conflict (i.e., spillover) as well as to their partners' family-work conflict (i.e., crossover) via co-parenting conflicts. We also examined whether parenting perfectionism indirectly relates to employees' and partners' reduced well-being, family satisfaction, and weekly working hours over time. To test our hypotheses, we analyzed multi-wave (T1, T2 = one year later, T3 = two years later) survey data of 541 employed couples with parental obligation participating in The German Family Panel pairfam. Results from structural equation modeling showed that parenting perfectionism was indirectly related to employees' family-work conflict at T2 via overprotection at T1 and, ultimately, to their reduced well-being and family satisfaction at T3. Parenting perfectionism was also indirectly related to partners' family-work conflict at T2 via overprotection at T1 and co-parenting conflicts at T2. Our results highlight perfectionism's potential impact on oneself and others. Particularly, parenting perfectionism can permeate boundaries between family and work life and can affect both employees and their intimate partners. We discuss key theoretical insights of our findings for family-work and perfectionism research as well as implications for organizational practice.

越来越多的员工立志成为完美的父母。然而，目前还不清楚这种努力可能会产生什么影响。借鉴家庭工作研究的核心理论原则，我们研究了养育完美主义及其对员工自己及其亲密伴侣的家庭和工作生活的可能影响。详细地，我们调查了员工的养育完美主义与作为父母角色的过度保护有何关系，以及这种过度保护是否反过来与员工自己的家庭-工作冲突（即溢出）以及其伴侣的家庭有关。通过共同养育冲突而产生的工作冲突（即交叉）。我们还研究了养育完美主义是否间接与员工和合作伙伴的幸福感、家庭满意度和每周工作时间的降低有关。为了检验我们的假设，我们分析了参与德国家庭小组pairfam的541 名有父母义务的就业夫妇的多波（T1、T2 = 一年后，T3 = 两年后）调查数据。结构方程模型的结果表明，养育完美主义通过T1阶段的过​​度保护与T2阶段员工的家庭-工作冲突间接相关，并最终导致T3阶段员工幸福感和家庭满意度的下降。养育完美主义还通过 T1 的过度保护和 T2 的共同养育冲突与 T2 的伴侣家庭工作冲突间接相关。我们的结果强调了完美主义对自己和他人的潜在影响。特别是，育儿完美主义可能会渗透到家庭和工作生活之间的界限，并会影响员工及其亲密伴侣。我们讨论了家庭工作和完美主义研究结果的关键理论见解以及对组织实践的影响。