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AI awareness and the breakdown of daily recovery: a spillover pathway to work–family strain
Originally published 2026-01-13 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1738073 ↗
AI / system type
Employee AI awareness studied as an occupational stressor
Working-family evidenceDirectly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Employee AI awareness studied as an occupational stressor. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings psychological detachment and daily AI-related work–family strain into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers experience-sampling study over ten workdays evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is psychological detachment and daily AI-related work–family strain. Source setting or population: 119 frontline hotel employees contributing 965 daily observations. Work–life or work–family outcomes are studied directly, with no additional inference about children’s development.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Can I switch off from work when worries about AI stay with me at home?
This experience-sampling study over ten workdays examines psychological detachment and daily AI-related work–family strain. Its TRICK home is Kindness, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
119 frontline hotel employees contributing 965 daily observations
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Can I switch off from work when worries about AI stay with me at home?
- What do this study’s design and population — 119 frontline hotel employees contributing 965 daily observations — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering psychological detachment and daily AI-related work–family strain, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Daily observational associations cannot establish causal effects; a short hotel-worker study is not proof that resilience training prevents work–family conflict.
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Xiaoyi Yi; Sameer Kumar (2026). AI awareness and the breakdown of daily recovery: a spillover pathway to work–family strain Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1738073
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