Aazami Sanaz, Akmal Syaqirah, Shamsuddin Khadijah
Work. 2015;52(3):687-95. doi: 10.3233/WOR-152150.
Work and family are the two most important domains in a person's life. Lack of balance between work and family can lead to adverse consequences such as psychological distress; however, the effect of work-family conflict on psychological distress might be mediated by job and family dissatisfaction.
This study examines a model of the four dimensions of work-family conflict and their consequences on psychological distress. In particular, we test whether job and family satisfaction mediate the effect of the four dimensions of work-family conflict on psychological distress.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among 567 Malaysian women who are working in the public services.
Structural Equation Modeling confirmed the mediating role of family satisfaction in the effect of strain-based work interference into family and time-based family interference into work on psychological distress. In addition, our results revealed a significant path that links job to family satisfaction. Moreover, time-based work interference into family and strain-based family interference into work significantly and negatively affect job satisfaction, which in turn influence family satisfaction and eventually affect psychological distress.
The results of our study show that organizations need to develop and adapt family friendly policies to mitigate level of employees' work-family conflict.
工作和家庭是一个人生活中两个最重要的领域。工作与家庭之间缺乏平衡可能会导致诸如心理困扰等不良后果；然而，工作-家庭冲突对心理困扰的影响可能是由工作和家庭不满意感介导的。
本研究考察了工作-家庭冲突的四个维度及其对心理困扰后果的模型。具体而言，我们检验工作和家庭满意度是否介导工作-家庭冲突的四个维度对心理困扰的影响。
本横断面研究在567名从事公共服务工作的马来西亚女性中进行。
结构方程模型证实了家庭满意度在基于压力的工作对家庭的干扰以及基于时间的家庭对工作的干扰对心理困扰的影响中起中介作用。此外，我们的结果揭示了一条将工作满意度与家庭满意度联系起来的显著路径。此外，基于时间的工作对家庭的干扰以及基于压力的家庭对工作的干扰对工作满意度有显著的负面影响，进而影响家庭满意度并最终影响心理困扰。
我们的研究结果表明，组织需要制定和调整家庭友好政策，以减轻员工工作-家庭冲突的程度。
