Bridging home and work: Sequential mediation in the daily home‐to‐work spillover of crafting

Grounded in the work–home resources (W–HR) model, this study investigates the cross‐domain effects of home crafting on job crafting. It examines different subforms of crafting, highlights the sequential mediating roles of family performance and positive affect, and tests an evening‐to‐next‐day enrichment process. Through a daily diary methodology, data were collected twice per day over five consecutive workdays from 112 full‐time employees. The findings reveal that evening home reducing demands, but not home seeking resources or seeking challenges, enhance family performance and subsequently foster positive affect. These resource gains then spill over into the work domain by promoting next‐day job seeking challenges, but not job seeking resources or reducing demands, ultimately boosting job performance. The sequential indirect effect also received support. By elucidating the temporal dynamics of crafting behaviors and specifying a resource‐gain pathway across home and work roles, this study extends crafting theory beyond the workplace and refines understanding of cross‐domain crafting processes. Practical implications include strategies for promoting work–home functioning and encouraging employees to leverage home crafting as a pathway to improved well‐being and performance.