The Role of Work-Self Facilitation and Work-Family Conflict Self-Efficacy in decreasing effect of Work-Family Conflicton Family Satisfaction, Couple Relationship Quality and Parenting Quality in Nurses

The conflict between work and family as a major issue affecting both employees and employers and their families is accompanied by prominent family problems such as family satisfaction, couple relationship quality, and parenting quality. Therefore, industrial and organizational psychologists have focused their research on finding moderating variables to reduce such adverse effects. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of work-self facilitating and work-family conflict self-efficacy in reducing the effect of work-family conflict on family satisfaction, couple relationship quality and parenting quality of nurses.

The present study was a descriptive-correlational survey. the research community consisted of married nurses with children of govermental ahvaz city hospitals , among which 240 were selected as sample members in a multi - step sampling method. Carlson et al. (2000) Work-Family Conflict, Aryee et al. (1999) Family Satisfaction, Chonody et al. (2016) Couple Relationship Quality, Arnol et al. (1993) Parenting scale, Demerouti (2009) Work-Self Facilitation, Cinamon (2006) Work-Family Conflict Self-Efficacy Scale Questionnaires were used for data collecting. Data were analyzed by pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis using SPSS-22.

Results showed that both dimensions of work-family conflict had a negative and significant relationship with family satisfaction, couple relationship quality and parenting quality (P <0.01), Also, work-self facilitation and work-family conflict self-efficacy were able to moderate the relationship between these variables.

The results show that both dimensions of work-family conflict had a negative and significant relationship with family satisfaction, couple relationship quality and parenting quality. In addition, work-self facilitation and work-family conflict self-efficacy were able to moderate the relationship between these variables. As a result, it is possible to reduce the negative impact of work-family conflict on the family variables mentioned by increasing the conditions of Work-Self Facilitation in the workplace for nurses and also increasing the level of Work-Family Conflict Self-efficacy.