The daily spillover between needs satisfied at work and needs satisfied at home. The moderating role of job resources.

For years, self-determination scholars focused on employees’ basic psychological need for autonomy, competence and relatedness. The satisfaction of these three needs are key for many beneficial work-related behaviors as well as for employees’ well-being. However, to date, research examining how satisfaction of the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness influence an employee’s private life remains limited. We aim to investigate whether an employee who experiences satisfaction of the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness at work also feels more satisfied at home on a daily basis. In addition, we investigate whether experiencing job resources (i.e., autonomy, skill discretion and supervisor support) influence these spillover effects. We collected daily diary data among 75 employees over a period of five consecutive working days. Multilevel path analyses found support for a daily positive linear spillover from a satisfied need for autonomy in the work domain to the satisfaction of the need for autonomy in the home domain. Moreover, we found that general levels of job autonomy strengthen this daily relation. We found no spillover between the satisfaction of the need for competence at work and at home. Nevertheless, general levels of skill discretion significantly strengthens this relation. Lastly, we found a daily positive curvilinear spillover effect for the need for relatedness satisfied at work and at home. This relation was stronger from employees who in general experience support by their supervisor. This study contributes to the recent work-home literature stream focusing on positive spillover effects.status: publishe