Expanding the psychosocial work environment: workplace norms and work-family conflict as correlates of stress and health.
This study examined the contributions of organizational level norms about work requirements and social relations, and work-family conflict, to job stress and subjective health symptoms, controlling for Karasek's job demand-control-support model of the psychosocial work environment, in a sample of 1,346 employees from 56 firms in the Norwegian food and beverage industry. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that organizational norms governing work performance and social relations, and work-to-family and family-to-work conflict, explained significant amounts of variance for job stress. The cross-level interaction between work performance norms and work-to-family conflict was also significantly related to job stress. Work-to-family conflict was significantly related to health symptoms, but family-to-work conflict and organizational norms were not.
Hammer
Tove Helland
TH
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3901, USA. thh2@cornell.edu
Saksvik
Per Øystein
PØ
Nytrø
Kjell
K
Torvatn
Hans
H
Bayazit
Mahmut
M
D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D019649:Food Industry; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009664:Norway; D015279:Organizational Culture; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace