RELATED TO TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY 9psychological work-family interference. The findings suggested that maintaining work and homedomains by creating more boundaries around CIT use can be beneficial for employees’psychological work-family interference.In Park and Jex’s (2011) article Work Home Boundary Management Using Communicationand Information Technology, the authors describe how advancements in communication andinformation technologies (CIT; e.g., smart phones, mobile Internet access) have enabled workersto be connected to work and family regardless of their physical locations, which has served to blurthe boundaries between work and family/home domains. Prevalent use of CIT, however, has beenboth praised and criticized for blurring these work and family boundaries. An advantage of CITuse includes employees’ increased ability to coordinate their work and family roles, such as aworking parent caring for a sick child at home while simultaneously working through use of CIT.On the other hand, employees can experience greater work and family distractions due tofrequent use of CIT to perform work-related roles at home and family-related roles at work. vanSteenbergen, Ellemers, & Mooijaart’s study (as cited in Park and Jex, 2011) stated, frequentpsychological work-family distraction/interference has been shown to be related to various strainsincluding emotional exhaustion, depressive symptoms, and per Cardenas, Major, & Bernas (ascited in Park and Jex, 2011), both low life and low job satisfaction.The authors aim was to fill the research gap by exploring boundary creation around CIT use asa potential mechanism linking individual differences (work-home segmentation preferences, roleidentifications) to psychological work-family interference. Additionally, they sought to providepractical insights for employees and employers who hope to reduce the stress associated withpsychological work-family interference under the highly blurred work-home boundaries.Park and Jex’s (2011) boundary theory suggests that individuals construct physical, temporal, orpsychological boundaries between work and family to manage multiple roles in their lives. STRESS RELATED TO TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY 10According to the theory, people segment or integrate the two domains by using strategies andpractices. Segmentation refers to keeping aspects of work and family separate from each other,whereas integration refers to merging and blending the aspects of the two domains. As technologyis deeply rooted in our daily lives, individuals may develop their own rules or strategies for usingCIT for cross-role enactment (e.g., working at home using computers, planning family vacations atwork browsing the Internet).