Comparing Work-Family Conflicts of Male and Female Nurses

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  • Suzuki Yasuhiro
    Research Assistant, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Chiba Institute of Science

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  • 男性看護師と女性看護師のワーク・ファミリー・コンフリクトの比較
  • ダンセイ カンゴシ ト ジョセイ カンゴシ ノ ワーク ・ ファミリー ・ コンフリクト ノ ヒカク

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<p>This study is a questionnaire survey of male and female nurse working and living conditions as well as the intensity of work-family conflicts (WFC) using a questionnaire to compare the WFC. The self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted with male nurses working in hospitals with 200 or more beds in general wards and female nurses working in wards other than obstetric and gynecologic departments in the same hospitals in January, 2016. The questionnaire was comprised of 18 question items from the Japanese version of WFCS and 20 demographic question items. We obtained cooperation for the survey from 86 hospitals, distributed the questionnaire to 4098 nurses (2403 females, 1695 males), and received 1985 responses (1251 females, 733 males, 1 unknown). Excluding responses with missing values, data from 1735 responses, female (1081) and male (654), were analyzed for the comparison. The means (SD) of the WFC scores of the female and male groups were 51.2 (10.2) and 49.6 (10.5). The results of the Welch t-test showed that the difference in the WFC scores of the two groups is statistically different (p＝.000). Further, a linear multiple regression analysis with dummy variables was conducted using gender as the independent variable, and the scores of the WFC as dependent variables, resulting in R2＝.093, Adjusted R2＝.086, F-statistic＝12.65, and p<.001. For the gender, assigning 1 for males, the partial regression coefficient was －1.665, showing that the WFC of males is lower than that of females. Comparing females and males, it was found that female nurses have a higher WFC than male nurses. In addition to gender, the following factors are also found to influence the WFC : differences in overtime, commuting time, ward assignment preference, and types of nursing school attended, whether living with spouse and/or child (ren), having person (s) in need of care, having certified qualifications, and being assigned to a managerial position, as well as reasons to continue work.</p>

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