Facilitation between work and family roles: Relationship between work- family facilitation and mental health among college professors

Pages: 1386-1391
Shamini Srivastava (Department of Psychology, Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh)

During the last few decades researchers have developed a genuine interest in the interaction of the work and family domains. Despite the fact, there is a growing interest in the positive side of the work-family interface; research on the work-family facilitation appears to be scanty. Therefore, consistent with the increasing interest in the positive psychology, which emphasized on the positive connections between work and family, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between both the directions of work-family facilitation i.e. work-to-family facilitation and family-to-work facilitation and mental health among professors. Data were collected from 145 professors from different degree colleges in Raebareli and Lucknow region. Data were obtained on the basis of responses by means of structured questionnaires of work-family facilitation and mental health. The data of the present study was analysed using correlation and hierarchical regression analyses. The findings of the correlational analyses revealed significant positive relationship between both the direction of work-family facilitation i.e. work-to-family facilitation and family-to-work facilitation and mental health. Further, the findings of the hierarchical regression analyses revealed that work-to-family and family-to-work facilitation were significantly positively predicted the mental health when the effects of demographic variables were controlled. The findings of the present study implicated that organizations should understand the positive side of the work-family facilitation when they made the organizational policies and they have to made broad strategy to enhance the work-family facilitation between work and family roles which in turn enhance the mental health of employees. Finally, limitations of the study and future research suggestion have also been discussed.