From the Bedroom to the Office

Sexual behavior represents relatively common and mundane home-life behavior, with demonstrated impact on both mood and general physical and psychological well-being.

Integrating emergent research on sex and mood with theory on work-life enrichment, we propose a novel model demonstrating the effects of sexual behavior at home on next-day job satisfaction and job engagement as a function of positive affect.

Using a 2-week daily diary study of married, employed adults, we found that:

(a) when employees engaged in sex at home, they reported increased positive affect at work the following day, independent of the effects of marital satisfaction;

(b) sex at home increased both daily job satisfaction and daily job engagement as a function of increased positive affect;

(c) daily work-to-family strain-based conflict significantly reduced the likelihood of engaging in sex at home that evening.

Accordingly, we extend theory on work-life enrichment by demonstrating the import of seemingly banal behavior on daily work life, with implications for work-life impingement.

Journal of Management

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