Proceedings of the 40th International Academic Conference, Stockholm

THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENT ON WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT

ORAPHIN CHOOCHOM

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to investigate how individual characteristics, family environment, and work environment predicted work-family conflict. Work-family conflict has the two directions of conflict (family to work conflict and work to family conflict). The sample consisted of 702 government officials in Bangkok, Thailand. Self-report inventories with a five-point rating scales ranging from always true to never true were administered to collect data. Data were analyzed using hierarchical regression. The results indicated that psychological characteristics and environment taken together accounted for 54 % of the variance in family-to-work conflict and 75 % variance in work-to-family conflict, respectively. The most powerful predictors for family-to-work conflict were workload, family load, optimism, and work support respectively. Similarly, family load contributed to work-to-family conflict the most whereas workload was the second in terms of the strength of its contributions. Family-friendly organizational support, intrinsic motivation, and work involvement were the third, fourth, and fifth powerful predictors of work-to-family conflict, respectively. The results support the importance of psychological characteristics and environment impact on work-family conflict. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Keywords: Work-family conflict, Psychological characteristics, Family environment, Work environment

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2018.040.014

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