title: Work-family conflict and enrichment from the perspective of psychosocial resources: comparing Finnish healthcare workers by working schedules.
abstract: We examined work-family conflict (WFC) and work-family enrichment (WFE) by comparing Finnish nurses, working dayshifts (non-shiftworkers, n = 874) and non-dayshifts. The non-dayshift employees worked either two different dayshifts (2-shiftworkers, n = 490) or three different shifts including nightshifts (3-shiftworkers, n = 270). Specifically, we investigated whether different resources, i.e. job control, managers' work-family support, co-workers' work-family support, control at home, personal coping strategies, and schedule satisfaction, predicted differently WFC and WFE in these three groups. Results showed that lower managers' work-family support predicted higher WFC only among 3-shiftworkers, whereas lower co-workers' support associated with increased WFC only in non-shiftworkers. In addition, shiftworkers reported higher WFC than non-shiftworkers. However, the level of WFE did not vary by schedule types. Moreover, the predictors of WFE varied only very little across schedule types. Shiftwork organizations should pay more attention to family-friendly management in order to reduce WFC among shiftworkers.
authors: University of Jyväskylä, Department of Psychology, Finland; University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Psychology), Finland. Electronic address: saija.mauno@jyu.fi.
authors: Saija
authors: S
authors: Mauno
authors: University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Psychology), Finland. Electronic address: mervi.ruokolainen@uta.fi.
authors: Mervi
authors: M
authors: Ruokolainen
authors: University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Psychology), Finland. Electronic address: ulla.kinnunen@uta.fi.
authors: Ulla
authors: U
authors: Kinnunen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards; D011584:Psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Shiftwork; Work–family conflict; Work–family enrichment