RT Article
T1 A research note on the association between work–family conflict and job stress among Chinese prison staff
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 23
IS 7
SP 633
OP 646
A1 Liu, Jianhong 1954-
A2 Jiang, Shanhe
A2 Lambert, Eric G.
A2 Zhang, Jinwu 1787-1829
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1735998583
AB Job stress, which has been found to have numerous negative effects on U.S. correctional staff, occurs as a result of stressors in the work environment. Recent research in the U.S. suggests that work-family conflict (e.g. time-based conflict, strain-based conflict, behavior-based conflict, and family-based conflict) may contribute to job stress for correctional staff. This exploratory study examined how different dimensions of work-family conflict were associated with job stress by surveying 322 staff at 2 Chinese prisons, 1 for male inmates and 1 for female inmates, in Guangzhou. An Ordinary Least Squares regression equation was computed with the job stress index as the dependent variable, and the personal characteristics (i.e. age, tenure, gender, educational level, and marital status) and the four work-family conflict variables as the independent variables. The independent variables explained about 49% of the observed variance in the job stress variable. The personal characteristics, time-based conflict, and family-on-work conflict did not have a statistically significant association with job stress in the multivariate analysis, but both strain-based conflict and behavior-based conflict had negative associations.
K1 China
K1 Correctional Staff
K1 Job Stress
K1 Prison officers
K1 Work–family conflict
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1296148