Work/Family Conflict, Psychological Well-Being, Satisfaction and Social Support: A Longitudinal Study in New Zealand

By M. O’driscoll, P. Brough, Thomas J. Kalliath. 2004

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A survey of employed workers was conducted at two time periods to assess relationships between work‐family conflict, well‐being, and job and family satisfaction, along with the role of social support from work colleagues and family members. Levels of work‐to‐family interference (WFI) were found to be uniformly higher than family‐to‐work interference (FWI). However, at each time period FWI showed more consistent negative relationships with well‐being and satisfaction, indicating that family‐to‐work interference may have a greater bearing on employees’ affective reactions. There were few cross‐time relationships between work‐family conflict and these reactions, which suggests that the association of work‐family conflict with well‐being and satisfaction may be time‐dependent. Although there was some evidence that social support from work colleagues moderated the relationship of WFI with psychological strain and family satisfaction, family support did not display a consistent moderator influence. Instead, both forms of support tended to exhibit direct (rather than moderator) relationships with the outcome variables. Implications of the findings for research and interventions are discussed.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The effect of positive and negative work‐family interaction on exhaustion: Does work social support make a difference? (2010, background): “It has been demonstrated that colleague support acts as a moderator in the relationship between work-family conflict and their outcomes such as psychological strain and family satisfaction ( O'Driscoll et al. , 2004”
Burnout, Informal Social Support and Psychological Distress among Social Workers (2015, background): “…regard, it is unsurprising that, faced with these balancing difficulties, there is an equivalent doubling in work overload, generating greater stress and psychological distress, particularly among women (Parasuraman and Simmers, 2001; O’Driscoll et al., 2004; Juárez, 2007; Rubino et al., 2013).”
Development of short questionnaire to measure an extended set of role expectation conflict, coworker support and work-life balance: The new job stress scale (2016, methodology): “89 (O’Driscoll et al., 2004) in previous research and obtains responses on a point likert type scale ranging from 6 (all the time) to 1 (never).”
Validation of the Job Demands-Resources model in cross-national samples: Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictions of psychological strain and work engagement (2013, background): “Supervisor support and colleague support A four-item supervisor support subscale and a four-item colleague support subscale (O’Driscoll et al., 2004) were included.”
The relationship of social support with well-being outcomes via work–family conflict: Moderating effects of gender, dependants and nationality (2017, background): “Several studies have examined the causes and consequences of work–family conflict (Allen et al., 2000; O’Driscoll et al., 2004; Reichl et al., 2014), yet there is still considerable interest in the process by which work–family conflict develops, along with its potential consequences for well-being o”