The Big Five Personality Dimensions, Work-Family Conflict, and Psychological Distress

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Rantanen ◽  
Lea Pulkkinen ◽  
Ulla Kinnunen

Abstract. The Big Five personality dimensions were examined as possible risk, resource, vulnerability, or protective factors in the link between work-family conflict and psychological distress. Data were derived for 75 men and 80 women from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS), in which the NEO Personality Inventory was completed at age 33, and work-family conflict and psychological distress were assessed at age 36. Neuroticism was positively linked to work-to-family conflict (WFC), family-to-work (FWC) conflict, and psychological distress in both genders. Neuroticism was also a moderator strengthening the link between WFC and psychological distress in women. Openness to Experience was positively linked to FWC in men, and Agreeableness was negatively linked to psychological distress in both genders.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Rismi Darmia ◽  
Lukman Nadjamuddin ◽  
Nur Afni Indahari

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the big five personality types (extraversion, agreableness, neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness to experience) and work-family conflict on women nurses. Subjects in this study were female nurses who have been married and have children in the Makassar Police Hospitals 75 people. Based on the results of data analysis showed that there was no correlation between extraversion with work-family conflict on women's care, p=0,175, with correlation coefficient, r = -0.158. There is no correlation between a greableness with work-family conflict in nurses woman (p=0,052) with a correlation coefficient (r = -0.225). There was a negative relationship between conscientiousness factor with work-family conflict on women's care with work-family conflict on women's care with correlation coefficient (r = - 0.321) and (p = 0.004). Neuroticism factors positively associated with work-family conflict on women's care with correlation coefficient (r = 0.330) and (p = 0.869). Factors openness to experience is not related to the work-family conflict female nurses with a correlation coefficient (r = - 0.019) and conscientiousness with work-family conflict on women’s care.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Tiago Ferreira ◽  
Joana Cadima ◽  
Marisa Matias ◽  
Teresa Leal ◽  
Paula Mena Matos

Abstract This longitudinal study follows children from dual-earner families in 4 time-points, covering the early childhood period. We examined the influence of work–family conflict (WFC) on maternal relational frustration (RF) towards the child, and investigated the reciprocal relations among maternal RF, children's self-control (SC), and teacher–child (TC) conflict over time. Participants were 214 children (97 girls; M age = 4.00 years), their mothers, and teachers. Mothers reported their own WFC and RF, whereas teachers reported child SC and T-C conflict. Results from a cross-lagged panel model indicated the experience of WFC positively predicted maternal RF. Maternal RF and T-C conflict were negatively related to the child later SC abilities. Conversely, children who displayed SC difficulties were more likely to experience later maternal RF and T-C conflict. There was evidence supporting the bidirectional effects of child SC and T-C conflict across time. Moreover, maternal RF and T-C conflict were indirectly linked, via child SC. The findings are consistent with a transactional view of development, stressing the importance of contextual factors to the quality of caregiving relationships and highlighting the complex and reciprocal relations between child regulatory competence and the quality of relationships with distinct caregivers.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanaz Aazami ◽  
Khadijah Shamsuddin ◽  
Syaqirah Akmal

We examined the mediating role of behavioral coping strategies in the association between work-family conflict and psychological distress. In particular, we examined the two directions of work-family conflict, namely, work interference into family and family interference into work. Furthermore, two coping styles in this study were adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 429 Malaysian working women using self-reported data. The results of mediational analysis in the present study showed that adaptive coping strategy does not significantly mediate the effect of work-family conflict on psychological distress. However, maladaptive coping strategies significantly mediate the effect of work-family conflict on psychological distress. These results show that adaptive coping strategies, which aimed to improve the stressful situation, are not effective in managing stressor such as work-family conflict. We found that experiencing interrole conflict steers employees toward frequent use of maladaptive coping strategies which in turn lead to psychological distress. Interventions targeted at improvement of coping skills which are according to individual’s needs and expectation may help working women to balance work and family demands. The important issue is to keep in mind that effective coping strategies are to control the situations not to eliminate work-family conflict.


2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 282-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik B. Jacobsen ◽  
Silje Endresen Reme ◽  
Grace Sembajwe ◽  
Karen Hopcia ◽  
Anne M. Stoddard ◽  
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