Sleep Quality and Wellbeing for Dual-Earner Couples during Covid-19

Abstract

Focusing on dual-earner couples, this paper investigates whether and when husband and wife sleep quality can influence their own wellbeing during Covid-19 period. More specifically, based on the analysis of two-wave data from 120 matched dual-career couples, this study found that (1) both husband and wife sleep quality had positive influences on their own wellbeing in the form of family-work-facilitation and wellbeing at work; (2) both husband and wife sleep quality can cross-over to the partner’s wellbeing in the form of family-work-facilitation and wellbeing at work; and (3) wife social support strengthened the cross-over effect of wife sleep quality on husband wellbeing in the form of family-work-facilitation and wellbeing at work.