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Conflict between work and family roles and life satisfaction among nurses in different shift systems in Croatia

The aim of this study was to examine the perception of conflict between work and family roles and job, family, and life satisfaction among nurses in certain parts of Croatia according to different types of shift organization. The total sample of participants included 174 nurses of hospitals in Zadar, Šibenik, and Split participated in this study. 129 married mothers with various work-time schedules were divided into four different groups according to the way their worktime shifts were organized. The participants completed a survey which included a set of social-demographic type questions, questions about the level and allocation of family responsibilities between spouses, and scales measuring the perceived negative effects of worktime, psychological demands of work, conflict between work and family roles, and semantic differential scales for measuring the affective and cognitive-evaluative component of job, family, and life satisfaction. The results of this study showed that the nurses working in permanent morning shifts experience less conflict due to the disturbing effects of work on the family than the other groups of nurses which were working in three shifts including the night shift. There were negative correlations between work-to-family conflict and all the measured components of satisfaction except for the affective component of family satisfaction. The cognitive-evaluative component of job satisfaction was highest among the nurses with morning shifts and lowest for the nurses who work in 12-hour shifts, while the affective component of life satisfaction was lowest for the nurses working in irregular and backward rotated shifts. These results are an additional indicator of the different and more or less negative effects of shiftwork on work-family interrole conflict. Also, they additionally support the view that the type of shift rotation also matters.

Negative effects of worktime; Psychological demands of work; Work-family conflict; Job satisfaction; Family satisfaction; Life satisfaction

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