Relation Between Work-Family Conflict of Working Mothers and Their Children's Anxiety Disorders. A Comparison Between Military and Civil Hospitals

The aim of present study was to investigate the effects of workfamily conflict of working mothers on anxiety disorders in their children and to compare anxiety disorders in children who their mothers work in military hospitals with civilian hospitals. In this research anxiety disorders includes 5 anxiety subtype (Separation، generalized، school phobia، somatization and social). This study is a casual-comparison that was performed among 176 working mothers who have children with ages between 8-12 in six military and civilian hospitals in city of Kerman، Iran. The data has obtained from 44 cases in military and 132 case in civilian hospitals. The SCARED and Work-Family Conflict questionnaires were used. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation)، inferential statistical methods (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation with using SPSS version 19. Obtained results showed that there is a significant difference between work-family conflicts of working mothers with anxiety disorders of their children in 5 levels. Also the results revealed that there was not any interactive effect between work-family conflict of working mothers in military and civilian hospitals with their children’s anxiety disorders. Moreover، the result showed that anxiety disorders in children that their mothers work in civilian hospitals was more than military hospitals. Despite of interactive effect of work-family conflicts on anxiety disorders was not significant in military and civilian hospitals; all of their children showed some symptoms of this anxiety disorders. work-family conflicts of working mothers specially in hospitals and effect on anxiety disorders on their children should be managed to decreased the conflicts and their effects on family.