Work-family conflict and enrichment from the perspective of psychosocial resources: Comparing Finnish healthcare workers by working schedules

We examined work family conflict (WFC) and work family enrichment (WEE) by comparing Finnish nurses, working dayshifts (non-shiftworkers, n = 874) and non-dayshifts. The non-dayshift employees worked either two different dayshifts (2-shiftworkers, n = 490) or three different shifts including nightshifts (3-shiftworkers, n = 270). Specifically, we investigated whether different resources, i.e. job control, managers' work family support, co-workers' work family support, control at home, personal coping strategies, and schedule satisfaction, predicted differently WFC and WEE in these three groups. Results showed that lower managers' work family support predicted higher WFC only among 3-shiftworkers, whereas lower co-workers' support associated with increased WFC only in nonshiftworkers. In addition, shiftworkers reported higher WFC than non-shiftworkers. However, the level of WEE did not vary by schedule types. Moreover, the predictors of WEE varied only very little across schedule types. Shiftwork organizations should pay more attention to family friendly management in order to reduce WFC among shiftworkers. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.