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Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance
To date, research directed at the work–life balance (WLB) has focused mainly on the work and family domains. However, the current labor force is heterogeneous, and workers may also value other nonworking domains besides the family. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of other non...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037206/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32024155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030907 |
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author | Gragnano, Andrea Simbula, Silvia Miglioretti, Massimo |
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description | To date, research directed at the work–life balance (WLB) has focused mainly on the work and family domains. However, the current labor force is heterogeneous, and workers may also value other nonworking domains besides the family. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of other nonworking domains in the WLB with a particular focus on health. Moreover, the importance of the effects of the work–family balance (WFB) and the work–health balance (WHB) on job satisfaction was investigated. Finally, we explored how the effects of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction change according to worker characteristics (age, gender, parental status, and work ability). This study involved 318 workers who completed an online questionnaire. The importance of the nonworking domains was compared with a t-test. The effect of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction was investigated with multiple and moderated regression analyses. The results show that workers considered health as important as family in the WLB. The WHB explained more of the variance in job satisfaction than the WFB. Age, gender and parental status moderated the effect of the WFB on job satisfaction, and work ability moderated the effect of the WHB on job satisfaction. This study highlights the importance of the health domain in the WLB and stresses that it is crucial to consider the specificity of different groups of workers when considering the WLB. |
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spelling | pubmed-70372062020-03-11 Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance Gragnano, Andrea Simbula, Silvia Miglioretti, Massimo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To date, research directed at the work–life balance (WLB) has focused mainly on the work and family domains. However, the current labor force is heterogeneous, and workers may also value other nonworking domains besides the family. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of other nonworking domains in the WLB with a particular focus on health. Moreover, the importance of the effects of the work–family balance (WFB) and the work–health balance (WHB) on job satisfaction was investigated. Finally, we explored how the effects of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction change according to worker characteristics (age, gender, parental status, and work ability). This study involved 318 workers who completed an online questionnaire. The importance of the nonworking domains was compared with a t-test. The effect of the WFB and the WHB on job satisfaction was investigated with multiple and moderated regression analyses. The results show that workers considered health as important as family in the WLB. The WHB explained more of the variance in job satisfaction than the WFB. Age, gender and parental status moderated the effect of the WFB on job satisfaction, and work ability moderated the effect of the WHB on job satisfaction. This study highlights the importance of the health domain in the WLB and stresses that it is crucial to consider the specificity of different groups of workers when considering the WLB. MDPI 2020-02-01 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7037206/ /pubmed/32024155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030907 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gragnano, Andrea Simbula, Silvia Miglioretti, Massimo Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title | Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title_full | Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title_fullStr | Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title_full_unstemmed | Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title_short | Work–Life Balance: Weighing the Importance of Work–Family and Work–Health Balance |
title_sort | work–life balance: weighing the importance of work–family and work–health balance |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037206/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32024155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030907 |
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