Assessing the relationship between work-family conflict and smoking

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• Personal Author:
  Berkman LF ; Li Y ; Nelson CC ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  OBJECTIVES: We examined the relationship between smoking and work-family conflict among a sample of New England long-term-care facility workers. METHODS: To collect data, we conducted in-person, structured interviews with workers in 4 extended-care facilities. RESULTS: There was a strong association between smoking likelihood and work-family conflict. Workers who experienced both stress at home from work issues (i.e., work-to-home conflict) and stress at work from personal issues (i.e., home-to-work conflict) had 3.1 times higher odds of smoking than those who did not experience these types of conflict. Workers who experienced home-to-work conflict had an odds of 2.3 compared with those who did not experience this type of conflict, and workers who experienced work-to-home conflict had an odds of 1.6 compared with workers who did not experience this type of conflict. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate that there is a robust relationship between work-family conflict and smoking, but that this relationship is dependent upon the total amount of conflict experienced and the direction of the conflict. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Epidemiology Family Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Smokers Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Tobacco Products

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• Keywords:
  Cigarette-smoking Families Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Health-surveys Job-stress Mental-stress Psychological-stress Psychology Questionnaires Smoking Stress Workers

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• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Michigan ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  102
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041709
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 2012 Sep; 102(9):1767-1772
• Contact Point Address:
  Lisa F. Berkman, PhD, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow St, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Email:
  lberkman@hsph.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:842c5a0b11a53a3f166c749ee3d5a086a986c182e40213d30e4e2abab9182db7ee4bedb32cedeaa853698b16e39ba0d3709ee0e096d3b8f786d7ea39685f6bdb
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194200/cdc_194200_DS1.pdf
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