ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on demand- and resource-related dynamics workers experience within and between their work and nonwork roles, and how these dynamics affect worker health, safety, and well-being (WHSWB). It explores essential occupational health psychology (OHP) theory and research from this domain, examines multiple phenomena associated with work and nonwork role dynamics, and includes conflict and facilitation within and between roles, strategies for managing multiple roles, and intervention concepts addressing these phenomena at the worker and broader organization levels. Work and nonwork role dynamics are deeply intertwined with nearly all WHSWB concerns. The dynamics associated with how people manage these roles are complex and constitute a very rich area of OHP research and practice that considers many personal, social, and environmental factors. Roles influence workers’ behaviors, beliefs, preferences, and even attitudes. Intra- and interrole dynamics have been studied for decades, tracing back to early work on role theory.
