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Abstract

Nowadays most employed adults are found to be struggling with the work and family conflict which adversely impact their life-satisfaction, thus, the current study aims to bring forth the gender differences in work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) and their impact on the life satisfaction of the employed adults. Measures of the constructs were obtained by a questionnaire which consists of Work-Family Conflict & Family-Work Conflict Scale (Netemeyer et. al., 1996) and The Satisfaction with Life scale (SWLS) (Diener et. al., 1985)), from a sample of 80 employed adults aged 30-50 yrs, who are full-time employed and working in Lucknow, India. Work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) were treated as predictor variables whilst life satisfaction of the employed adults constituted the criterion variable. Two-way ANOVA were employed. Results show that working women experiences high overall work and family conflict as compared to working men( df= 78; t= 13.95; p> 0.05); significant inverse relationships are observed in the mean life-satisfaction scores of High WFC and Low WFC in working women (df= 38; t=5.94; p>0.05) and working men (df= 38; t=10.04; p>0.05) as well as for High FWC and Low FWC in working women (df= 38; t=4.27; p>0.05) and working men (df= 38; t=2.95; p>0.05). Gender differences were clearly evident in WFC where working women are experiencing higher WFC as compared to working men but nominal gender differences are seen in FWC. It was concluded that Work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC) exert a significant negative impact on the of life satisfaction of the employed adults.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2022, Syed N. B. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher Keywords:	Work-family conflict (WFC), family-work conflict (FWC), life satisfaction
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Nursing & Midwifery
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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