The Relationship of Perceived Intimacy from the Main Family and Work-Family Conflict with Empathy and Addiction to Work in Medical Staff

According to the important role of family factors in people quality of work and the importance of correct emotional relationship of medical staff in patients' satisfaction and spirits, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between perceived intimacy from the main family and work-family conflict with empathy and addiction to work in the medical staff. This study was a description of correlation type. The statistical population of this study included all the medical staff of medical centers in Bojnourd city in the 2018-19 year. Among them 250 person were selected by available sampling method. For data collection we used main family health Questionnaire, work-family conflict questionnaire, Lamonica empathy scale, and work addiction questionnaire. To analyze the data of this study, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used. In order to analyze the data, SPSS software (version 25) was used. The results of Pearson correlation showed that perceived intimacy from the main family had a positive and significant correlation with empathy and negative correlation with addiction to work. Also, the results indicated that there is a significant correlation between work-family conflicts with empathy, but there was not a significant correlation between work-family conflicts and addiction to work. The results of the present study indicate the role of family system and its internal conflicts on empathy with patients and work addiction in hospital staff, which emphasizes the need to pay more attention to the improvement of quality of family life of health care staff.