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Janet A. Lenaghan

Assistant Professor of Management

Hofstra University

Richard Buda

Associate Professor of Management

Hofstra University

Alan B. Eisner

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair of Management

Pace University

* The authors gratefully acknowledge the insightful comments of Dr. Charles C. Fischer, editor of JMI and two anonymous reviewers. We would also like to thank Alvin Hwang and Dan Baugher for their contributions to this research. This article is dedicated to the memory of our friend and coauthor, Dr. Richard Buda, who passed away on September 2, 2005.

(1) Outcomes comparable to those reported emerged when treating WFC and EI as continuous variables and using hierarchical regression. The interaction effect remained significant at the .05 level. Table 1 Correlations between Primary Scales and Selected Variables

Work-

Emotional family Emotional

Intelligence Conflict Well-being Emotional Intelligence 1.00 Work-family Conflict -.27 ** 1.00 Well-being .36 ** -.35 ** 1.00 Gender (a) .13 -.12 -.06 Marital Status (b) .08 -.05 .13 Race/Ethnicity (c) .08 .03 -.06 Age .07 -.15 * .09 Number of Children -.03 .01 -.09 Education .09 .05 .07 Staff Size -.05 .06 -.01 Years in Organization .05 .02 .05 Hours of Work .02 .16 * .03 Satisfaction of Work .11 -.23 ** .33 ** Importance of Work .17 ** -.19 ** .24 ** (N = 205) * p < .05; ** p < .01. (a) Gender: 1 = Male; 2 = Female (b) Marital Status: 0 = Other; 1 = Married (c) Race/Ethnicity: 0 = Other; 1 = Caucasian Note. Italicized numbers on the diagonal are the reliability coefficients. All other numbers are correlations. Table 2 ANCOVA Analysis of the Influence of Emotional Intelligence and Work-family Conflict on Well-being Source SS df MS Full Model 16765.58 6 2794.26 Marital Status 651.85 1 651.85 Work Satisfaction 1719.17 1 1719.17 hnportance of Work 68.25 1 68.25 El 4564.45 1 4564.45 WFC 3014.51 1 3014.51 El X WFC Interaction 731.36 1 731.36 Error 37879.57 198 191.31 Total 54645.16 204

Partial

Eta Source F p Squared Full Model 14.61 .001 .307 Marital Status 3.41 .066 .017 Work Satisfaction 8.99 .003 .043 hnportance of Work 0.36 .551 .002 EI 23.86 .001 .108 WFC 15.76 .001 .074 EI X WFC Interaction 3.82 .052 .019 Error Total (N = 205) (a) Covariates. (b) Main effect adjusted means: High EI (M = 79.01) versus Low EI (M = 69.33). (c) Main effect adjusted means: High WFC (M = 70.13) versus Low WFC (M = 78.22). Table 3 Descriptive Statistics for Well-being Adjusted for Covariates (a) Emotional Work-family Intelligence Conflict N M SE Low Low 39 75.30 2.23

High 62 63.36 1.81 High Low 58 81.13 1.85

High 46 76.89 2.04 (N = 205) (a) Covariates: Marital Status, Work Satisfaction, and Importance of Work.