Job insecurity and work-family conflict in teachers in Sweden: Examining their relations with longitudinal cross-lagged modeling.
Job insecurity and work-family conflict are increasingly prevalent in contemporary working life and numerous studies have documented their antecedents and negative consequences. The present study used longitudinal questionnaire data collected among teachers in Sweden to test the direction of the relation between job insecurity and work-family conflict using cross-lagged modeling. Multiple-group comparisons were conducted to account for the skewed gender composition in the teachers' group. After controlling for baseline levels of job insecurity, work-family conflict, and four potential confounders (age, children under 12 living at home, university education, and relationship status), we found that the reciprocal relationship between job insecurity and work-family conflict over a 1-year time period fitted the data best for the men. For women, however, only the auto regression coefficients were significant. The results provide some empirical support for gender differences in the relation between job insecurity and work-family conflict. Moreover, this study partially supports theoretical assumptions suggesting that job insecurity and work-family conflict influence each other.
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.|Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Anne
A
Richter
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.|Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Katharina
K
Näswall
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Petra
P
Lindfors
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.|Work Well: Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Magnus
M
Sverke
D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005178:Faculty; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D013663:Teaching; D014478:Unemployment; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*
conservation of resources theory; gender composition; job insecurity; tokenism theory; work-family conflict