Work-life conflicts

[Audio] Hello everyone! My name is Tiffani and over the last few weeks in this course, I have been researching work-life conflict. So, let's get started..

[Audio] After doing research, I realized my topic fell heavily into Work life conflict. Over the years, a typical workday has transpired from people working at their homes farming or taking care of children, to the expansion of factories, and now we live in a 24-hour day and 7 days a week work world. This expansion has created numerous job opportunities with the needs to having manning to accommodate the needs one business. However, with the addition of these various new work schedules and work shifts, it has caused an increase of work-life conflict. Most people consider a typical workday being Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 pm, but this does not apply to everyone, some career fields have night shifts, split shifts, evening shifts, on call, etc. This is where a good work-life balance becomes very important, by learning to balance your work needs, personal needs and family needs together, which will not always be a perfect balance. But one must figure out what works best for them Many people have complained about having numerous health issues including depression and sleep disorders from working a non typical work schedules for extended periods of times. Which then tends to affect the family even more when one is struggling mentally and physically. Others have described their life as being better once they moved to night shifts because they have more time with their family. Whereas, some day shift people have complained about needing to miss work due to children being sent home from school or appointments. Therefore, I have concluded that each family is different, the needs of one may be different than another and what works for one family may not work for another..

[Audio] My question was "does one's work schedule affect their family life?" I chose this topic because it has been something very personal for me, having two kids I feel like there is always something going on that causes me to leave work or stay home from work, so I am curious what other people's experiences were. For my variables, I chose family life (WKVSFAM) for my independent variable which is an ordinal measurement. The survey questionnaire asked, "How often do the demands of your job interfere with your family life?" and the responses were "Often, sometimes, rarely, and never" For my dependent variable I chose usual work schedule (wrksched) which is a nominal measurement. The survey questionnaire asked, "which of the following best describes your usual work schedule?" and the responses were "day shift, night shift, afternoon shift, split shift, irregular shift/on-call, and rotating shifts.".

[Audio] This is the frequency tables for both of my variables, if you look at the top one "Usual Work Schedule" you can see that the most frequently shift worked would be days. Out of 1416 responses, 1030 of those responded with day shift. Below is the frequency table for "Usual Work Schedule," in this table you can see how often a shift is worked based on their answers. If you look at the frequency column, you can very well see that day shift is the most worked shift. Out of a total of 1416 responses, 1030 of those responses were for day shift, making the valid percent (or the total number of responses without the missing responses) 43.9%. The next most frequent shift would be night shift of 106 people at 7.5%. Then irregular/on-call shifts at 94 people at 6.6%. Rotating shifts are 80 people at 5.6%. Afternoon shift is 67 at 4.7% and finally, split shift at the least common of 39 people at 2.8%. Below is the frequency table for "How Often a Job Interferes with Family Life" which will give how often someone's job interferes with their family life. Looking at the table you can see that the total number of responses is 1417. Most people, 33.8%, said that their job rarely interferes. The lowest number of responses was often, meaning that 185 people said that their job often interferes with their family life. And sometimes and rarely had similar response numbers at 429 and 479. The mode is 1, which was the number used to represent day shift. Tells us that the most frequently used response was 1. The median states that 1 or day shift is the average shift worked. The mode is 3, which is the number used to represent rarely. The median states that the average answer would be rare..

[Audio] Below is a bar chart for the usual work schedule responses received. By just looking at the chart, you can see that over 1000 responses were for day shift, making it the most common. Whereas the other responses look similar, and all come in at under 200 responses each. Next, we will evaluate the chart for "How Often Job Interferes with Family Life." At over 400, but not 500, you can see that rarely is the highest. Followed by sometimes at just over 400. The lowest is often at over 100, but close to 200. Below is a bar chart for the usual work schedule responses received. By just looking at the chart, you can see that over 1000 responses were for day shift, making it the most common. Whereas the other responses look similar, and all come in at under 200 responses each. Next, we will evaluate the chart for "How Often Job Interferes with Family Life." At over 400, but not 500, you can see that rarely is the highest. Followed by sometimes at just over 400. The lowest is often at over 100, but close to 200..

[Audio] Five steps of Hypothesis Testing Step 1: My research hypothesis was Does one's work schedule affect one's family life? And the null hypothesis was One's work schedule does not affect one's family life. Step 2: Identify your level of significance. The level of significance was .05. Step 3: Conduct your analysis using SPSS. Step 4: Look for the valid score for comparison. We will call this "p." P= <.001 Step 5: Compare the two and apply the following rule: If "p" is < or = alpha, then you reject the null. P <.001< .05, the null is rejected. Since the null is rejected, there is compelling evidence that one's work schedule does affect one's family life..

[Audio] By running the crosstab on my variables, I discovered that most people who work dayshifts respond rarely (35.1%) or sometimes (31.3%) their job interferes with their family life, irregular shifts/on-call shifts respond often higher than the other shifts at 26.6%. Night shift has the most "never" responses. The epsilons calculation is the highest percentage minus the lowest percentage is -Row 1 Often: 16.2% -Row 2 Sometimes: 13.7% -Row 3 Rarely: 25.5% -Row 4 Never: 19.4% The 10% rule is that if any of the epsilons is higher than 10% there may be a relationship, since all ours is over the 10%, there is a relationship between the two variables. I used Cramer's V to measure the association between the two variables since one is ordinal and one is nominal. The outputs describe a strong association since the differences in the column descriptions are so high..

[Audio] After conducting my research, I can confirm that one's work schedule does affect their family life. However, I did find that there in inadequate research out there for how specific work schedules have direct affects to family lifestyles. I also discovered that other variables need to be considered with this research because it is currently too vague to truly tell us how work affects one's family life. Other variables could include how many children and/or dependents one has, single or dual parent household. This study would be a nice contribution to pursue further research within the topic of work-life conflicts..

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