How Do Family Role Overload and Work Interferance with Family Affect the Life Satisfaction and Sleep Sufficiency of Construction Professionals?

Ruodan Lu,Xiaoming Lin,Liang Guo,Ziyi Wang

doi:10.3390/ijerph16173094

Abstract

Sleep and work-family problems attract a great attention in the construction industry because construction professionals are usually prone to work-family conflicts and sleep problems. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of Family-Role Overload (FRO) and Work Interference with Family (WIF) on sleep sufficiency. We also included life satisfaction as a mediator and family supportive supervision behaviors (FSSB) as a moderator. Using a sample of 193 Chinese construction professionals, we collected objectively-measured sleep sufficiency data with validated wrist actigraphies and self-reported sleep sufficiency data, FRO, WIF, life satisfaction and FSSB with questionnaires through multiple waves. Results demonstrated that FRO was negatively associated with both objectively-measured and self-reported sleep sufficiency and life satisfaction played an important mediating role in this relationship. The moderating effect of life satisfaction on the path between WIF and sleep sufficiency is trivial. In addition, no significant moderating effects of FSSB were found. More substantial policies should be taken to improve the life satisfaction and sleep sufficiency of construction professionals.

Highlights

Sleep problems have become an emerging global epidemic as the WHO estimates that more than one third of people around the world are sleep deprived [1]
We focused on the group of construction professionals, because these people usually endure exposure to noise, dust, and unhealthy solvents and work in extremes of heat or cold, they require physical and mental energy recovered from sleep to cope with long and inflexible work hours and unsafe working conditions [34,35,36,37]
We found that Family-Role Overload (FRO) and with Family (WIF) were negatively associated with life satisfaction and both sleep sufficiency

Summary

Introduction

Sleep problems have become an emerging global epidemic as the WHO estimates that more than one third of people around the world are sleep deprived [1]. In China, 38.2 percent of adults suffer from insomnia and more than 300 million Chinese have sleep disorders [2]. As an elementary physiological need, sleep is important to several somatic functions, including learning and memory [3], metabolism [4], and immunity [5]. Sleep deprivation can cause all kinds of internal health problems such as depression [6], obesity [7], diabetes [8] and cardiovascular disease [9]. There is the social side-effect of bad sleeping habits. Because sleep deprivation leads to a loss of self-control, the efficiency of teamwork will be reduced, and productivity will be cut down [10]

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