The effects of Family-Self Facilitation and Family-Friendly Work Climate in reducing the effect of Work-Family Conflict on Family Satisfaction, Quality of Marital Relationship and Quality of Parenting among Nurses

 Today, employees are constantly confronted with work-family conflict. These conflicts can affect family functioning including satisfaction, quality of marital relationship, and quality of parenting.  This descriptive-correlational survey aimed to investigate whether the family-self facilitating and Family-Friendly Work Environment can reduce the effect of work-family and family work conflicts on the aforementioned variables among nurses.

The participants of this study were 240married nurses with children who worked at governmental hospitals Ahvaz city. The sample selection was performed by multistage random sampling method. Data were collected using Carlson et al. (2000) Work-Family Conflict, Aryee et al. (1999) Family Satisfaction, Chonody et al. (2016) quality of marital relationship, Arnol et al. (1993) Parenting scale, Demerouti et al (2009) Family-Self Facilitation, Odle-Dusseau et al. (2013) Family-Friendly Work Environment Scale Questionnaires. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis with SPSS-22 software.

We found that work-family and family work conflict had a significant negative relationship with family satisfaction, quality of marital relationship and parenting quality (P <0.01). In addition, family-self facilitation and family-friendly work environment were able to moderate the relationship between these variables.

According to the results the negative effects of work family and family-work conflict can be eased by the family-self facilitation and family-friendly work environment.