military_mission

This data aims to contribute to an analysis of the well-being of militaries who are deployed on humanitarian aid missions, taking their work-family (personal life) boundary management into consideration by analyzing the relationship between their preferences and enacted boundaries and militaries’ well-being. Specifically, we analyzed the boundary fit approach, positing that it is the adjustment between individuals’ preferences and enacted boundaries that influences their well-being. Using a sample of 327 militaries, boundary management profiles were performed, considering the fit between their segmentation preferences and enactment. Furthermore, the relationship between these profiles and the militaries’ well-being was established. The results indicated that misfit profiles were found where the soldiers enacted less segmentation than desired or, on the contrary, more integration than desired, and a profile with a fit between the work-family segmentation they desired and enacted. The militaries in the fit profile had significantly higher levels of well-being (i.e., less exhaustion and more work engagement) than those in the misfit profile, who enacted less segmentation than desired.