Department of Psychology.
Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education, Nanyang Technological University.
Psychol Aging. 2018 Nov;33(7):993-1006. doi: 10.1037/pag0000293. Epub 2018 Oct 11.
With the rapidly aging workforce worldwide, the need to retain healthy older workers is greater than ever. To promote health among older workers, a better understanding of the factors that contribute to their health is crucial. With this in mind, we investigated the impact of work-family conflict and work-family enrichment on older workers' health. Five waves of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study were used. A total of 4,509 workers aged 55 years and older at baseline were included. Multilevel modeling was conducted to analyze the data. Our findings showed that greater work-to-family conflict was related to higher comorbidity and greater disability over time, controlling for other known predictors of health (employment status, total household income, living arrangement, marital status, depressive symptoms, and baseline demographic characteristics). No other work-family variables significantly predicted the health outcomes. Comorbidity and disability were also found to predict work-to-family conflict. Using five waves of longitudinal data, our research showed that work that interferes with family negatively affects older workers' physical and functional health and that health relates to work-to-family conflict. Given the growing number of older workers and changing work and family situations, continued monitoring of work-family experiences among older workers is warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
随着全球劳动力老龄化的加速，留住健康的老年工人比以往任何时候都更加重要。为了促进老年工人的健康，更好地了解影响他们健康的因素至关重要。考虑到这一点，我们调查了工作-家庭冲突和工作-家庭丰富对老年工人健康的影响。研究使用了来自健康与退休研究的五波纵向数据。共纳入了 4509 名在基线时年龄为 55 岁及以上的工人。采用多层次模型分析数据。我们的研究结果表明，随着时间的推移，工作与家庭的冲突越大，共病和残疾的程度越高，同时控制了其他已知的健康预测因素（就业状况、家庭总收入、生活安排、婚姻状况、抑郁症状和基线人口统计学特征）。没有其他工作-家庭变量显著预测健康结果。共病和残疾也被发现可以预测工作-家庭冲突。本研究使用五波纵向数据表明，工作对家庭的干扰会对老年工人的身体和功能健康产生负面影响，而健康与工作-家庭冲突有关。鉴于越来越多的老年工人和不断变化的工作和家庭情况，有必要继续监测老年工人的工作-家庭经历。
