Aazami Sanaz, Shamsuddin Khadijah, Akmal Syaqirah
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Ilam University of Medical Science, Ilam 56000, Iran ; Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2015;2015:343075. doi: 10.1155/2015/343075. Epub 2015 Jan 28.
We examined the mediating role of behavioral coping strategies in the association between work-family conflict and psychological distress. In particular, we examined the two directions of work-family conflict, namely, work interference into family and family interference into work. Furthermore, two coping styles in this study were adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 429 Malaysian working women using self-reported data. The results of mediational analysis in the present study showed that adaptive coping strategy does not significantly mediate the effect of work-family conflict on psychological distress. However, maladaptive coping strategies significantly mediate the effect of work-family conflict on psychological distress. These results show that adaptive coping strategies, which aimed to improve the stressful situation, are not effective in managing stressor such as work-family conflict. We found that experiencing interrole conflict steers employees toward frequent use of maladaptive coping strategies which in turn lead to psychological distress. Interventions targeted at improvement of coping skills which are according to individual's needs and expectation may help working women to balance work and family demands. The important issue is to keep in mind that effective coping strategies are to control the situations not to eliminate work-family conflict.
我们考察了行为应对策略在工作-家庭冲突与心理困扰之间关联中的中介作用。具体而言，我们考察了工作-家庭冲突的两个方向，即工作对家庭的干扰和家庭对工作的干扰。此外，本研究中的两种应对方式为适应性应对策略和 maladaptive 应对策略。这项横断面研究使用自我报告数据，对429名马来西亚职业女性进行了调查。本研究的中介分析结果表明，适应性应对策略并未显著中介工作-家庭冲突对心理困扰的影响。然而，maladaptive 应对策略显著中介了工作-家庭冲突对心理困扰的影响。这些结果表明，旨在改善压力情境的适应性应对策略在管理诸如工作-家庭冲突等压力源方面并不有效。我们发现，经历角色间冲突会促使员工频繁使用 maladaptive 应对策略，进而导致心理困扰。根据个人需求和期望进行的、旨在提高应对技能的干预措施，可能有助于职业女性平衡工作和家庭需求。重要的是要记住，有效的应对策略是控制局面，而不是消除工作-家庭冲突。
