Quantifying work-family conflict among registered nurses

Work–family conflict is challenging for nurses and the nursing profession. Still unclear is how frequently nurses experience work–family conflict and which nurses experience it most frequently. We document the prevalence and frequency of work–family conflict and describe the demographic predictors o...

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Published in:Research in nursing & health 2006-10, Vol.29 (5), p.414-426
Main Authors: Grzywacz, Joseph G., Frone, Michael R., Brewer, Carol S., Kovner, Christine T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Conflict
Educational Status
Employment
Families & family life
Family
family relations
Female
Health participants
Humans
Income
Logistic Models
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Nurses
Nurses - psychology
Nursing
Prevalence
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Stress, Psychological
Women
Work-Family conflict
Working women
Workload
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Summary:Work–family conflict is challenging for nurses and the nursing profession. Still unclear is how frequently nurses experience work–family conflict and which nurses experience it most frequently. We document the prevalence and frequency of work–family conflict and describe the demographic predictors of frequent work–family conflict. Nurses reported greater work interference with family than family interference with work. Fifty percent of nurses reported chronic work interference with family (occurring at least once a week); another 41% reported episodic work interference with family (occurring less than 1–3 days per month). In contrast, 52% of nurses reported episodic family interference with work, and 11% reported chronic family interference with work. Few demographic characteristics predicted either work interference with family or family interference with work. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 29: 414–426, 2006
ISSN:0160-6891
1098-240X
DOI:10.1002/nur.20133