The work-family interface: Integrating research and career counseling practice

This article addresses the work-family interface by reviewing research using Frone's () bidirectional model of work-family conflict and facilitation. The review demonstrates that work-family conflict is associated with various detrimental outcomes and that work-family facilitation is positively correlated with enhanced mental and physical well-being. After summarizing the research, the authors discuss recent models and perspectives from the field of vocational psychology, connect these models and perspectives to existing work-family literature, and propose theoretically based interventions for increasing facilitation and decreasing conflict.