The Survey of Relationship Between Marital Satisfaction and Work-Family Conflict Among Hospital Clinical Staff of Zabol University of Medical Sciences

Two important areas of life are job and family. Marital satisfaction as an indicator of the quality of the relationships between couples¡ can be achieved only when there is compatibility between the current status of the individual in marital relationship with the expected status. Work-family conflict described as incompatibility between work and family roles. This type of conflict is stronger for clinical staff with shift work in hospitals. Therefore¡ this study aimed to investigate the relationship between work - family conflict and marital satisfaction among clinical staff in hospitals.
The samples of this study were all clinical staff in hospitals of Zabol University of Medical Sciences¡ who were selected by census method. To examine samples¡ Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire and Carlson work-family conflict questionnaire were used. Once the questionnaires completed¡ they collected and data were analyzed using SPSS 18 with a significant level (P The findings showed that there is a significant negative correlation among marital satisfaction and work-family conflict of employees (P = 0.03¡ r = 0.11). In fact¡ marital satisfaction decreases when the conflict between work and family increased. Also¡ the results showed that the clinical staff with an average of 166/83 marital satisfaction have middle satisfaction and who with an average of 3/31 work-family conflict experience middle conflict.
The results showed that marital satisfaction decreases with the increasing of job and family conflicts. The results can be used by policymakers and managers to take steps to reduce job stress and enhance the life skills of clinical staff