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Work-family conflict, health status and job satisfaction among nurses

14 January 2021
Work-Life Balance
02 January 2021
Volume 30 · Issue 1

Abstract

Objective:

Research studies have demonstrated that nurses face difficulty balancing family roles and responsibilities with work. This study aimed to explore the relationship between work-family conflict and health status and job satisfaction among nurses.

Methods:

This was a cross-sectional study of 426 nurses working in high-dependency and general settings in a large referral hospital in Brunei Darussalam.

Results:

Work-family conflict inversely affects health status and job satisfaction for nurses working in high-dependency and general settings. However, general nurses experienced higher work-family conflict albeit better job satisfaction and health status compared to high-dependency nurses. Older, single and non-smoker nurses reported higher job satisfaction.

Conclusion:

This study further informs healthcare and nursing administrators and policymakers, who should foster effective strategies and interventions to support the balance of nurses' work and family life.

Nursing is a highly demanding profession that often results in intrusion of work into family life to a point where work and family demands affect one another (Abdul Rahman et al, 2017). Inter-role conflict has been studied since the 1960s, when Kahn et al (1964) observed that incompatible institution demands have adverse effects on personality characteristics and interpersonal relationships. Kahn et al (1964:20) observed inter-role conflict as a form of conflict in which:

‘Role pressures associated with membership in one organization are in conflict with pressures restricting from membership in other groups.’

Greenhaus and Beutell (1985) expanded on this theory and defined it in the context of work and family as a type of inter-role conflict that occurs as a result of incompatible role pressures from the work and family domains. They explained that work-family conflict could take three forms:

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Work-family conflict
Health status
Job satisfaction
General nurses
High-dependency nurses