Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict.

Cindy Xinshan Jia,Chengzhe Fu,Chau-Kiu Cheung

doi:10.3390/ijerph17238881

Abstract

The current study examined the relationships among work support, role stress, work-family conflict, and life satisfaction, with a sample of social workers in China’s Pearl River Delta (N = 1414). Using structure equation modelling, the study revealed that social workers’ life satisfaction reduced because of role conflict and work-family conflicts. Work-family conflict partially mediated the negative effects of role ambiguity and conflict on social workers’ life satisfaction. Work support from their director, manager, supervisor, and co-workers protectively reduced role stress and work-family conflict. The findings emphasize the significance of managing the interference between work and family for social workers’ well-being.

Highlights

Social workers’ well-being has attracted growing attention due to the contamination of their work experiences [1,2,3]
The current study examined the pathways among work support, role stress, work-family conflict (WFC), and life satisfaction (LS), with a representative sample of social workers from nine cities in Pearl River Delta (PRD), China
We found that married status reduced role ambiguity and conflict, which possibly stems from family support in promoting job involvement [93]

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Introduction

Social workers’ well-being has attracted growing attention due to the contamination of their work experiences [1,2,3]. Social workers are one of the at-risk professionals in experiencing negative work-family interference with exposures of various negative work events [4,5,6,7]. Workplace experiences, such as stress and burnout [8,9,10,11,12], are likely to extend into the domain of their private life and to lead to high risks of negative work-to-family spill-over that could impair their life satisfaction [9]. These integrated service centers require community social workers to cooperate with local administrators in managing community affairs

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