The Association Between Social Adjustment and Work-Family Conflict and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Clinical Staff of the Khatam-al-Anbia Hospital in Salmas in 2019

Clinical staff are particularly prone to work-family conflict due to their professional nature and require interdisciplinary collaboration and social adjustment to increase their job motivation and achieving success in teamwork.

The current study aimed to investigate the association between social adjustment and work-family conflict as well as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in hospital clinical staff.

This descriptive correlational study was conducted on all (n=115) nurses and midwives working in Khatam-al-Anbia Hospital in Salmas in 2019. Data were collected using 4 questionnaires of (1) demographic information, (2) social adjustment, (3) work-family conflict, and (4) organizational citizenship behavior. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16 by Pearson correlation, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA.

Most of the employees were female (84.5%), married (67.3%), had a bachelorchr('39')s degree (90%) and had work experience of 8.77±7.18 years. There was a significant indirect association between social adjustment and work-family conflict (r=-0>.21, p=0.05). There was no significant association between social adjustment and OCB (r=-0.06, p=0.65).

This study demonstrated an indirect association between social adjustment and work-family conflict in hospital clinical staff. Therefore, nursing managers can improve the quality of patient care by developing employeeschr('39') adaptation skills programs intended to reduce their work-family conflict