Work-Family and Family-Work Conflict among Elementary School Teachers in Pakistan
Abstract
The study was aimed to investigate thework-family and family-work conflict among elementary school teachers of Sheikhupuradistrict in Pakistan. Study was descriptive in nature. All the public elementary school teachers of Sheikhupura were considered the population. A sample of 886 ESTs was selected through simple random sampling technique. The 550 ESTs (males =185 and females= 385) had responded.A self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data by the researcher. The questionnaire was divided into two sub-dimensions as work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict. Reliability value for the sub-dimensions of work-to-family conflict (α=.81) and family-to-work conflict (α=.87) was good. Results revealed that the elementary school teachers were experiencing work-family conflict at moderate level. Elementary school teachers were experiencing more work-family conflict than the family-work conflict. A significant difference found in the level of work-family and family-work conflict between male and female elementary school teachers. It was shown that female ESTs were facing more work-to-family and family-to-work conflict than male ESTs.
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