RT Article
T1 Work–Family Conflict’s Association With the Work Attitudes of Job Involvement, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment Among Southern Prison Staff
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 32
IS 8
SP 865
OP 889
A1 Lambert, Eric G.
A2 Morrow, Weston
A2 Vickovic, Samuel G.
A2 Leone, Matthew C.
A2 Keena, Linda D.
A2 Haynes, Stacy H.
A2 May, David
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1771808837
AB Prisons depend on their employees, and staffing a prison is expensive. Approximately 80% of a prison’s budget is for staff wages and benefits. Prisons are not generally viewed as desirable places to work, thus recruiting and retaining correctional officers can be difficult. Work-related stress can negatively affect staff members’ home lives, and home stress can make an employee distracted and endangered at work. Time-, strain-, behavior-, and family-based work–family conflicts were hypothesized to impact three work attitudes (job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment) negatively. Time-based conflict had no significant effects on any of the work attitudes. Strain-based conflict had significant negative effects on job satisfaction and organizational commitment but not job involvement. Behavior-based conflict had significant negative effects on all three work attitudes. Contrary to our hypotheses, family-based conflict had significant positive effects on all three. Work–family conflict is a significant work attitude-associated stressor for correctional staff; therefore, policy recommendations to address it are made.
K1 Correctional Staff
K1 Organizational Commitment
K1 Job satisfaction
K1 Job involvement
K1 Work–family conflict
DO 10.1177/08874034211003235