Assessing the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Smoking

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Public Health
• Personal Author:
  Nelson, Candace C. ; Li, Yi ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  Objectives
  
  To examine the relationship between smoking and work-family conflict among a sample of New England long-term care facility workers.
  
  Methods
  
  Data were collected using in-person, structured interviews from workers in four 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 and work from personal issues (i.e., home to work conflict) had 3.1 times higher odds of smoking compared to those who did not experience these types of conflict. Workers who experienced home to work conflict had an odds of 2.3 compared to those who did not experience this type of conflict, and workers who experienced work to home conflict had an odds of 1.6 compared to workers who did not experience this type of conflict.
  
  Discussion
  
  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.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Conflict (Psychology) Cross-Sectional Studies Family Female Health Personnel Humans Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Nursing Homes Prevalence Questionnaires Smoking Work Young Adult

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• Source:
  Am J Public Health. 102(9):1767-1772.
• Pubmed ID:
  22720765
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3482018
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K05 CA108663/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U01 AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U01AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U01HD051217/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; U01HD051218/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; U01HD051276/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; U01HD059773/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; U01OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  New England
• Volume:
  102
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9d240ec237c93e41204eed19ee2582e3837b21763128e19ec630e3bcdc3f8bb3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33453/cdc_33453_DS1.pdf
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