Mental labour at work and home

Mental labour (i.e., cognitive work aimed at achieving communal goals) has been examined in the home domain but overlooked in work contexts. Integrating self-regulation and role theories, this dissertation conceptualises work mental labour alongside home mental labour, identifies role-based antecedents, and explores its boundary-spanning implications. Using a mixed-methods approach, it finds home and work mental labour have four dimensions (deciding, planning, monitoring, and knowing), and provides a validated measure, the HML-WML Measure. It identifies gender and leadership as key antecedents, and suggests home and work mental labour are associated with differential work-family outcomes.