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Candace C Nelson1, Yi Li, Glorian Sorensen
1Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Objectives:
We examined the relationship between smoking and work-family conflict among a sample of New England long-term-care facility workers.
Methods:
To collect data, we conducted in-person, structured interviews with workers in 4 extended-care facilities.
Results:
There was a strong association between smoking likelihood and work-family conflict. Workers who experienced both stress at home from work issues (i.e., work-to-home conflict) and stress at work from personal issues (i.e., home-to-work conflict) had 3.1 times higher odds of smoking than those who did not experience these types of conflict. Workers who experienced home-to-work conflict had an odds of 2.3 compared with those who did not experience this type of conflict, and workers who experienced work-to-home conflict had an odds of 1.6 compared with workers who did not experience this type of conflict.
Conclusions:
The results of this study indicate that there is a robust relationship between work-family conflict and smoking, but that this relationship is dependent upon the total amount of conflict experienced and the direction of the conflict.
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