Stressor-Strain and Social Support Factor Affecting the Conflicting Working Family Case Study: Married Women Employees of Ahvaz State Organizations

This paper aims at studying the effects of family involvement, feeling of family role overload, family role ambiguity and social support in family on the conflicting working family. In this study we have tried to present a model for explaining family-work-conflict by employing certain theories related to both role and family conflict situations. This model develops two general ideas including family and social support factors affecting family-work-conflict. In order to test the model empirically the concepts were defined, related measures were constructed and their reliability and validity were attained. The results were acceptable. This research is conducted using the survey method. Stratified random sampling has been used for select ion of the samples. Main instrument of data collect ion used in this study was the questionnaire. The sample of the research includes 360 members drawn from the married female state employees of in Ahvaz, capital city of khusestan province in south west of Iran, in the year Results indicated that family's social support does not significantly affect the conflicting working family. Yet it decreasingly af fects such a family through the feeling of family role overload and family role ambiguity variables. Family involvement variable, in addition to affecting directly the conflicting working family, it also affects such a family indirectly through the feeling of family role overload variable. Also, the findings showed that feeling of family role overload and family role ambiguity variables directly affect the conflicting working family.