The Role of Spousal Recovery Support in Predicting Psychological

Detachment as Recovery Experience Strategy in Working Husband

and Wife

Sheilla Salsabilla

, Pingkan Cynthia Belinda Rumondor

Psychology Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia 11480

Keyword: Spousal Recovery Support, Psychological Detachment

Abstract: The research explored the role of spousal recovery support on psychological detachment as strategy

recovery experience of working husband and wife. The research applied quantitative method with 106

working husband and wife from Jakarta region. Spousal recovery support was measured using Spousal or

Partner Recovery Support Scale developed by Park and Fritz (2015), modified by the researcher.

Psychological Detachment was measured using Recovery Experience Questionnaire (REQ) conceived by

Sonnentag & Fritz (2007) adapted to the research. Using regression logistic analysis, it was shown that

spousal recovery support has no significantly affect with psychological detachment (r > 0.05). It can be

concluded that spousal recovery support has no impact in predicting the odds of having high level

psychological detachment of a working husband and wife.

1 INTRODUCTION

At present, the level of workers in DKI Jakarta is

increasing every year. In the data obtained from the

Central Statistics Agency, in general, in DKI Jakarta

in 2015, the composition of the working population

in terms of the gender of women aged 15 - 60 years

had a total of 1,799,376 people, in 2016 there was an

increase to 1,853,470 people. Whereas for men in

2015, the composition of the working population

numbered 2,924,653 people, and in 2016, it reached

3,008,362 people. The data shows that there is an

increase in the number of workers from year to year,

especially in women, where she helps her husband in

meeting the family's economic needs. The

involvement of married women in working creates a

dual-earner couple, that is, husband and wife couples

who both work either full time or part-time, and both

generate income (Faisal, C. M. & Sari, 2018). With

the work and family, domains can produce stress

because of the influence of stress between the two

fields (Bolger, N., DeLongis, A., Kessler, R. C., &

Wethington, 1989). The pressure will cause work-

family conflict, where this results in an imbalance of

roles between their roles in the workplace and within

the family both in time-based conflict, strain-based

conflict, or behavior-based conflict (Greenhaus, J. &

Beutell, 1985).

With the presence of stress and WFC, we need

something that can minimize or prevent stress, and

prevention is recovery. Recovery from work stress is

a process of replenishing resources that are

exhausted through a break from work stress when

the stressor is temporarily eliminated (Sonnentag, S.,

& Fritz, 2007). This is in line with the Conservation

of Resource (COR) Theory, which, according to

(Hobfoll, 1989, 2002), assumes that people have an

underlying motivation to obtain, maintain, grow, and

protect things that they value or consider themselves

valuable.

In line with the COR theory, it can be interpreted

that a wife and husband who experience stress from

their work, experience loss of resources in the form

of time or energy. Hence, he wants to get it back by

getting another value, namely recovery, with a

process called recovery experience. If stress and

WFC are not minimized, it will affect either the

individual (such as work and mental health) or even

the marriage life of the individual. This is in line

with one study that says there is a relationship

between work stressors and poor-quality

relationships; this relationship is associated with

work stress that increases psychological pressure,

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then affects the quality of marital relations (Hughes,

D. L., Galinsky, E., & Morris, 1992).

Recovery experience can be achieved by

conducting psychological detachment because,

based on research by (Moreno-Jiménez, B., Mayo,

M., Sanz-Vergel, A.I., Geurts, S., Rodriguez-Muñoz,

A., & Garrosa, 2009) proved that there was a high

correlation between work stress and the ability to

detachment from work. Psychological detachment

refers to the subjective experience of leaving work

and forgetting work during non-work times where

the individual detaches from mental work, which

means that the individual stops thinking about work

and work problems that psychologically separate

from work during the off-job time, and allows

recovery.

According to (Hobfoll, S. E., Habesleben, J.,

Neveu, J.-P. & Westman, 2017) in resource caravan

theory, personal resources arise from supporting

social conditions, such as having supportive families

and supportive work organizations. Therefore, for

the recovery of personal resources can be assisted

with social support, one of them with social support

from a partner. Associated with COR theory,

recovery experience on psychological detachment

can be helped by support from someone who has an

intimate relationship such as a partner or spousal

recovery support because couples are the most

prominent source of support (Park, Y., & Fritz,

2015).

(Park, Y., & Fritz, 2015) define spousal recovery

support as the behavior exhibited by couples in

helping and making opportunities for their partners

to recover so that spousal recovery support between

working partners can help them to create a recovery

after work. The support that can be given to couples

when doing detachment from work can be various,

such as reminding their partners not to open emails,

talk about work, and take a vacation. For example,

when a wife experiences work stress when returning

home, her husband can help minimize this stress by

reminding his wife not to open the e-mail. If the wife

does not open the email, then she will experience a

pause period so that it can be a detachment process

in recovery. Just as if when a wife or husband works

at a bank and gets stressed or demanded work from

the office, after arriving at their partner's house, they

still ask about their work affairs. His work and stress

level will increase so that the individual will not

experience the detachment process as a recovery.

Conversely, if when they leave work, their wives or

husbands are given time to rest, they are not asked

about work matters or are invited to take vacations

on weekends, there is an opportunity for the

individual to experience a detachment process as a

recovery.

Support for the recovery of a married couple can

facilitate the involvement and easing of their

partner's tension in activities that encourage

recovery. Husband or wife recovery support serves

as a resource for multiple income earners who help

meet two conditions for the recovery experience,

namely, time and involvement in recreational

activities (Park, Y., & Fritz, 2015). If individuals

experience recovery from work-family conflicts and

stress, it will affect married life, especially support

between partners, and work in the office will be

even better such as, doing office work is no burden.

It will create a comfortable situation for both

individuals and couples.

1.1 Problem Formulation

The research question is, what is the role of spousal

recovery support in predicting psychological

detachment as a recovery experience strategy for

husband and wife working with moderate and high

levels of WFC?

1.2 Object of Research

This study aims to determine the role of spousal

recovery support in predicting psychological

detachment as a recovery experience strategy for

husband and wife working with moderate and high

levels of WFC.

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This research design is a correlational study using a

quantitative approach. The data obtained will be

analyzed by statistical techniques of logistic

regression test. Characteristics of the subjects of this

study are husband and wife double income earners.

Husband and wife must be aged 20 - 55 years or still

in productive age of work and marriage age of 6

months and over. Have a minimum working time of

40 hours/week, travel time from home to the office

that is at least 60 minutes, and work in DKI (Special

Capital Region) of Jakarta. The sampling technique

is done by accidental sampling.

There are 167 data collected, but there are 61

data that were deleted because of adjustments to the

characteristics of the study, mainly medium and high

WFC. To get 106 data, which is 30 data from 35

questionnaires distributed offline and 36 of 97

respondents through the distribution of google form

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links distributed via social media such as line and

Instagram, and 40 data from pilot test data. The

average of the most of this study were respondents

aged between 31-35 years (SD = 1,320), female

gender (SD = 0.593), last education level (SD =

72.6), distance from home to office 60 minutes (SD

= 60.4) with a marriage age range of 1-5 years (SD =

72.6).

2.1 Measuring Instrument

Spousal Recovery Support The measuring

instrument used to measure spousal recovery support

is the Spouse or Partner Recovery Support Scale by

(Park, Y., & Fritz, 2015). This gauge consists of 4

items. The choice of answers uses a Likert scale

with 5 answer choices ranging from 1 "very few" to

5 "very many."

Psychological detachment a measuring tool

used to measure recovery experience is the Recovery

experience Questionnaire (REQ) by (Sonnentag, S.,

& Fritz, 2007). This measuring instrument consists

of 16 items, where there are 4 dimensions measured,

namely psychological detachment consisting of 4

items, relaxation consisting of 4 items, mastery

experience consisting of 4 items, and control

consisting of 4 items. However, because researchers

will only measure psychological detachment, they

will only use 4 items in the psychological

detachment dimension. The answer choices use a

Likert scale with 5 answer choices from range 1

"strongly disagree" to 5 "strongly agree."

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

3.1 Logistic Regression Test

Table 1: Hosmer and lemeshow test

Step Chi-square df Sig.

8.714 6 .190

The logistic regression test is a statistical method of

logistics models. It is part of the regression analysis

used to predict the probability of an event occurring

by matching the data to the logistic curve function

(Hosmer, D. W & Lemeshow, 1989). Based on the

results in table 1, namely the calculation of the

Hosmer and Lemeshow tests that obtained r> 0.05,

the model can be accepted. Moreover, hypothesis

testing with logistic regression can be done because

it can explain data about the role of spousal recovery

support in predicting psychological detachment.

Then in the calculation of the Omnibus test of

model coefficient, based on table 2, it was concluded

that the Chi-square Model was 1.431, and r> 0.05.

So that the logistic regression test is appropriate for

use in research calculations. Still, in this study

participants, spousal recovery support cannot predict

psychological detachment as a recovery experience

strategy for husband and wife working, especially

those who have moderate and high levels of work-

family conflict.

Table 2: Omnibus test of model coefficient

4 CONCLUSION AND

RECOMMENDATION

4.1 Conclusion

Based on the results of research that has been done

that there is no role of spousal recovery support in

predicting psychological detachment as a recovery

experience strategy for husband and wife with

moderate and high levels of work-family conflict.

However, spousal recovery support and

psychological detachment show a relationship with a

definite direction where if the higher the spousal

recovery support is given, the psychological

detachment of the individual will be higher.

4.2 Recommendation

1. Control is needed on subjects who are really

under pressure or a strong WFC, so it needs to be

analyzed what makes WFC high in the Jakarta

community in particular.

2. To further clarify the variable spousal recovery

support, it is better to use the daily diary study

method, which is a measurement of data

longitudinally. It is because spousal recovery

support with survey methods does not clearly

describe the variables, so it is better seen from day

today for a long time to know how the role of

spousal recovery support.

3. For further research development, it can provide

additional control, namely regarding the recovery-

related self-efficacy of husband and wife working

from multiple breadwinner pairs associated with

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spousal recovery support with high and low work-

family conflicts.

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