title: Quantifying work-family conflict among registered nurses.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Grzywacz
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Frone
authors.forename: Carol S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Brewer
authors.forename: Christine T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Kovner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D016526:Workload