Work-family conflict and sleep disturbance: the Malaysian working women study

This study aimed at assessing effect of the four dimensions of work-family conflicts (strain and time-based work interference into family and family interference into work) on sleep disturbance in Malaysian working women. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 325 Malaysian married working w...

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Published inIndustrial Health Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 50 - 57
Main Authors AAZAMI, Sanaz, MOZAFARI, Mosayeb, SHAMSUDDIN, Khadijah, AKMAL, Syaqirah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health 01.01.2016
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan
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Summary:This study aimed at assessing effect of the four dimensions of work-family conflicts (strain and time-based work interference into family and family interference into work) on sleep disturbance in Malaysian working women. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 325 Malaysian married working women. Multiple-stage simple random sampling method was used to recruit women from public service departments of Malaysia. Self-administrated questionnaires were used to measure the study variables and data were analyzed using SPSS version 21. We found that high level of the four dimensions of work-family conflicts significantly increase sleep disturbance. Our analyses also revealed an age-dependent effect of the work-family conflict on sleep disturbance. Women in their 20 to 30 yr old suffer from sleep disturbance due to high level of time-based and strain-based work-interference into family. However, the quality of sleep among women aged 30–39 were affected by strain-based family-interference into work. Finally, women older than 40 yr had significantly disturbed sleep due to strain-based work-interference into family as well as time-based family interference into work. Our findings showed that sleep quality of working women might be disturbed by experiencing high level of work-family conflict. However, the effects of inter-role conflicts on sleep varied among different age groups.
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ISSN:0019-8366
1880-8026
DOI:10.2486/indhealth.2015-0086