title: Work-family conflict and sleep disturbance: the Malaysian working women study.
abstract: This study aimed at assessing effect of the four dimensions of work-family conflicts (strain and time-based work interference into family and family interference into work) on sleep disturbance in Malaysian working women. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 325 Malaysian married working women. Multiple-stage simple random sampling method was used to recruit women from public service departments of Malaysia. Self-administrated questionnaires were used to measure the study variables and data were analyzed using SPSS version 21. We found that high level of the four dimensions of work-family conflicts significantly increase sleep disturbance. Our analyses also revealed an age-dependent effect of the work-family conflict on sleep disturbance. Women in their 20 to 30 yr old suffer from sleep disturbance due to high level of time-based and strain-based work-interference into family. However, the quality of sleep among women aged 30-39 were affected by strain-based family-interference into work. Finally, women older than 40 yr had significantly disturbed sleep due to strain-based work-interference into family as well as time-based family interference into work. Our findings showed that sleep quality of working women might be disturbed by experiencing high level of work-family conflict. However, the effects of inter-role conflicts on sleep varied among different age groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Ilam University of Medical Science, Iran.
authors.forename: Sanaz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aazami
authors.forename: Mosayeb
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mozafari
authors.forename: Khadijah
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shamsuddin
authors.forename: Syaqirah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akmal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008875:Middle Aged; D020919:Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D000072358:Work-Life Balance