Work – family conflict, sense of coherence,coping resources and job satisfaction amongst women general practitioners

[摘要] The aim of the present study was to explore how women general practitionersexperience work-family conflict, their sense of coherence, coping resources as well asimplications of these on their level of job satisfaction. This involved investigating thebi-dimensional model of the work-family conflict and measuring them against otherinvestigated variables like coping resources, sense of coherence and job satisfaction.The research was conceptualized based on the stress and coping models. Literaturereview based mostly on international level revealed that women doctors do experiencework-family conflict and that it does impact on their level of well-being. The sample,which consisted of women general practitioners residing in the Gauteng province, wasobtained using snowballing method and non-probability sampling method. A hundredand fourteen questionnaires were distributed by mail and within a period of threemonths only 28 questionnaires had been returned of which 22 were used for statisticalprocedures. Statistical analysis involved a number of procedures including Pearsoncorrelation, t-test procedures and partial correlation methods. The results revealed thatwomen general practitioners do experience work-family conflict especially one aspectof it known as the family interference with work (F→W). Furthermore resultsindicated that the experience of work-family conflict, specifically the F→W amongstthese women does affect their level of job satisfaction in a significantly negative way.Demographics on the other hand proved to have no significant impact on the level ofjob satisfaction amongst these women. Lastly, it was noted that even though thesewomen employed a wide variety of coping resources none of them proved to have anysignificant effect on their level of job satisfaction.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand