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Parkin AK, Zadow AJ, Potter RE, Afsharian A, Dollard MF, Pignata S, Bakker AB, Lushington K. The role of psychosocial safety climate on flexible work from home digital job demands and work-life conflict. INDUSTRIAL HEALTH 2023; 61:307-319. [PMID: 35934791 PMCID: PMC10542472 DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2022-0078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of employees in flexible work from home has increased markedly along with a reliance on information communication technologies. This study investigated the role of an organisational factor, psychosocial safety climate (PSC; the climate for worker psychological health and safety), as an antecedent of these new kinds of demands (specifically work from home digital job demands) and their effect on work-life conflict. Data were gathered via an online survey of 2,177 employees from 37 Australian universities. Multilevel modelling showed that university level PSC to demands, y=-0.09, SE=0.03, p<0.01, and demands to work-life conflict, y=0.51, SE=0.19, p<0.05, relationships were significant. Supporting the antecedent theory, university level PSC was significantly indirectly related to work-life conflict via demands (LL -0.10 UL -0.01). Against expectations PSC did not moderate the demand to work-life conflict relationship. The results imply that targeting PSC could help prevent work from home digital job demands, and therefore, work-life conflict. Further research is needed on the role of digital job resources as flexible and hybrid work takes hold post COVID.
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Affiliation(s)
- Amy K Parkin
- Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Australia
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- Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Australia
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Latief OKAE, Eshak ES, Mahfouz EM, Iso H, Yatsuya H, Sameh EM, Ghazawy ER, Baba S, Emam SA, El-Khateeb AS, Hassan EE. A comparative study of the work-family conflicts prevalence, their sociodemographic, family, and work attributes, and their relation to the self-reported health status in Japanese and Egyptian civil workers. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:1490. [PMID: 35927641 PMCID: PMC9354292 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13924-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Cross-cultural studies studying work-family conflicts (W_F_Cs) are scarce. We compared the prevalence of W_F_Cs, factors correlated with them, and their association with self-rated health between Japan and Egypt. Methods Among 4862 Japanese and 3111 Egyptian civil workers recruited by a convenience sample in 2018/2019 and reported self-rated health status, we assessed the W_F_Cs by the Midlife Development in the US (MIDUS) and attributed them to sociodemographic, family, and work variables. We also evaluated the W_F_Cs’ gender- and country-specific associations with self-rated health by logistic regression analyses. Results W_F_Cs were more prevalent in Egyptian than in Japanese women (23.7% vs. 18.2%) and men (19.1% vs. 10.5%), while poor self-rated health was more prevalent in Japanese than Egyptians (19.3% and 17.3% vs. 16.9% and 5.5%). Longer working hours, shift work, and overtime work were positively associated with stronger work-to-family conflict (WFC). Whereas being single was inversely associated with stronger family-to-work conflict (FWC). Living with children, fathers, or alone in Japan while education in Egypt was associated with these conflicts. The OR (95% CI) for poor self-reported health among those with the strong, in reference to weak total W_F_Cs, was 4.28 (2.91–6.30) and 6.01 (4.50–8.01) in Japanese women and men and was 2.46 (1.75–3.47) and 3.11 (1.67–5.80) in Egyptian women and men. Conclusions Japanese and Egyptian civil workers have different prevalence and correlated factors of W_F_Cs and self-rated health. W_F_Cs were associated in a dose–response pattern with poor-self-rated health of civil workers in both countries. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-022-13924-0.
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt. .,Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt
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- Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Public Health and Health System, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt
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- Bioethics and Public Policy, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt
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