Job stress and family adjustment of female bank employees with high and low levels of work-family conflict

Pages: 1085-1092
Suneeta Yadav (Department of Psychology, B.H.U., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of the study was to examine the job stress and family adjustment of female bank employees with high and low levels of work-family conflict. Work-Family Conflict Scale (Singh & Singh, 1996) Occupational Stress Index (Srivastava & Singh, 1981) and Family Adjustment Inventory for Working Women (Singh, 1987; high score denotes maladjustment), were administered individually to a sample consisting of 250 women employed at clerical level in various nationalized banks in Varanasi and nearby regions, U.P., India. Results revealed that Ss high on Work-to-Family (W-to-F) and Family-to-Work (F-to-W)conflict were also higher on all the areas of occupational stress, viz., role overload, role conflict, poor peer relation, intrinsic impoverishment, low status, strenuous working conditions and overall occupational stress. Similarly, Ss high on W-to-F and F-to-W conflict were also higher on all the areas of family maladjustment, viz., personal, family, children, husband, relatives and overall family maladjustment. Correlational analysis indicated that both W-to-F and F-to-W conflict had positive associations with almost all dimensions of occupational stress as well as with all the dimensions of maladjustment. The study gave important insights into work-family conflict, family adjustments and stress factors related to job amongst women working in the banking sector.