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Full Length Research Paper
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Relationship between
work-family conflict and job satisfaction: The moderating
effect of gender and the salience of family and work
roles
Antonia Calvo-Salguero1*,
Ana Ma Carrasco-González2 and José María
Salinas-Martínez de Lecea1
1Department
of Social Psychology and Methodology of Behavior Sciences.
University of Granada,
Campus-de-Cartuja, s/n.
18071, Granada, Spain.
2Department
of Clinic, Experimental and Social Psychology.
University of
Huelva, Campus-El-Carmen, Avda, Fuerzas Armadas, s/n. 21071, Huelva, Spain.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
acalvo@ugr.es. Tel: 34
958 243745.
Fax: 34 958 243746.
Accepted 29 June 2010 |
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Abstract |
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Work-family conflict has become an issue of particular concern
to today’s businesses. Its prevalence among employees and the
negative consequences of this conflict for one’s job
satisfaction has led it to become one of the problems that
managers and directors have to deal with most. Although there
have been researches into the relationship between work-family
conflict and job satisfaction, few studies have analysed the
role of gender in this relationship. The objectives of this
study are to analyse the moderating role of gender and the
salience of family and work roles in the work-to-family conflict
and general job satisfaction, while the job’s characteristics
are controlled. 162 workers from a Spanish public organisation
took part in the study. The results from the regression analysis
confirms the moderating effect of gender on the relationship
between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction, such that
women show a lower level of job satisfaction than men. However,
the salience of the family and work roles were not found to have
a moderating effect on the aforementioned relationship, neither
in the case of men nor in women. The results are discussed in
the context of the theory of role identity salience and the
gender role theory, as well as the possible cultural effects.
Key words:
Work-family conflict, job satisfaction, gender, salience of family role, salience of work role, Spain. |
