Work-home interference and burnout: a study based on Swedish twins.
OBJECTIVE
This study sets out to investigate the impact of work-home interference on burnout in women and men, while taking genetic and family environmental factors into account.


METHODS
A total of 4446 Swedish twins were included in the study. The effects of work-home conflict (WHC) and home-work conflict (HWC) on burnout between and within pairs were analyzed with co-twin control analyses.


RESULTS
Both WHC and HWC were significantly associated with burnout. Genetic factors may be involved in the association between HWC and burnout in women. Familial factors were not involved for WHC and burnout, neither for women nor for men.


CONCLUSIONS
This study shows the importance to encounter WHC per se to prevent burnout. Because of genetic confounding in HWC and burnout in women, preventive efforts may also take into account individual characteristics.
From the Division of Insurance Medicine (Drs Blom and Svedberg), Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet; the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (Dr Blom), Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (Drs Sverke and Lindfors), Stockholm University, Sweden; WorkWell: Research Unit for Economic and Management Sciences (Dr Sverke), North-West University, South Africa; and Division of Intervention and Implementation Research (Drs Bodin and Bergström), the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Victoria
V
Blom
Magnus
M
Sverke
Lennart
L
Bodin
Gunnar
G
Bergström
Petra
P
Lindfors
Pia
P
Svedberg
D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D003710:Demography; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D059647:Gene-Environment Interaction; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D017132:Workplace