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Discussant Comments Timothy A. Judge (Kindly delivered by Reeshad Dalal) 27 April 2007 Work and Home Boundaries Boundary between work and home become more permeable Dual career couples predominate and gender roles becoming more egalitarian Increasing professionalism of labor force (no “punch in, punch out” time) Technological changes (always “plugged in”) Upshot: Our work and home lives are becoming more intertwined Symposium is on important topic Commonalities Papers in this symposium use relatively cognitive concepts in study affective spillover Attention restoration theory (Menta Weiss) Recovery experiences (Sonnentag et al.; Fritz et al.) Cognitive weariness (Lam et al.) All use experience-sampling methodology Has become modus necessarium of studying moods and emotions Problems and Limitations One paradox – if affect is important but (almost by nature) effects are temporally bound – are long-term effects nil? Measurement problems Separating measures of moods from emotions Measuring specific emotions Although measuring moods on a daily basis is probably accurate, what about emotions (which are very brief)? Causality issues: Does affect lead to – or result from – cognitive concepts? Where from Here? There is very little to criticize in these papers In thinking about them, I was more often struck by what they did well, but also by what is not being studied So, I have a few slides of issues I think we should consider in future research… Future Research I Given that many households are dual-income, family structural decisions may be important to work-home life boundaries Impact of partner’s mood – or resources – on our moods at work or at home Determine duration of spillover effects, including effects on behaviors Important (but quite difficult) to use independent sources for behaviors @ level-1 Future Research II Important to change measurement strategy Finer: more than 1-2 times per day Coarser: over longer time periods (weeks rather than days) Affective forecas