Work-Life Balance and Health

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 보건대학원 보건학과, 2018. 8. 조성일.Employed workers often have family responsibilities such as childcare or homemaking. This dual burden may increase work-related health problems, particularly. This study assessed whether family demand and difficulty in work–life balance were associated with health (musculoskeletal disorders and mental health) among Korean employees. My study has enriched established research domains such as work-related health and stress research, by introducing the family demand, and work–life balance construct as a risk factor for health or an explanatory factor for work stress. Materials and Methods Data from the population-based Korean Working Conditions Survey of 2011, including 28,640 male and 21,392 female workers, were used in Chapter 2. The same survey data conducted in 2014, including 25,247 male and 24,769 female workers, were used in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Self-assessed difficulty in work–life balance was defined as a work–life conflict. Family demands were defined as a binary variable having a value of one if a respondent spends more than one hour each day on family-related works. Musculoskeletal disorders were defined as pain in the back, neck, shoulder, or extremities during the past year. Mental health was defined as having any depression or anxiety during the past year. Logistic regression analyses stratified by gender were performed to identify gender differences, and interaction terms including work–life conflict and key covariates were also incorporated. Results In chapter 2, work–life conflict was significantly associated with increased frequency of musculoskeletal disorders in the past 12 months in both men (OR: 1.49, 95% CI: 1.41–1.58) and women (OR: 1.50, 95% CI: 1.41–1.62). The results suggest that there was no gender difference in the effect of work–life conflict on musculoskeletal disorders (p = 0.80). Working conditions increased the effect of work–life conflict on musculoskeletal disorders. Job stress acted as an effect modifier of the relationship between and work–life conflict and musculoskeletal disorders in both men (odds ratio (OR), 1.84) and women (OR, 1.93). Women had more effect modifiers than did men. Specifically, physical demand (OR, 4.10), longer work hours (OR, 1.4 Chapter 1. Introduction . 1 1.1 Previous Researches and Their Limitation 1 1.2 The Growing Importance of Work-Family Conflict . 2 1.3 Concept of WorkFamily Conflict 3 1.4 WorkFamily Conflict, WorkLife Conflict, and WorkLife Balance . 3 1.5 Theoretical Perspectives 4 1.6 Consequences of Work-Life Conflict 6 1.7 Objective of This Study . 7 1.8 References . 8 Chapter 2. WorkLife Balance and Musculoskeletal Disorders . 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Materials and Methods . 14 2.3 Results 19 2.4 Discussion 29 2.5 Conclusions 34 2.6 References 36 Chapter 3. Family Demands, WorkLife Balance, and Musculoskeletal Disorders . 41 3.1 Introduction 41 3.2 Materials and Methods . 45 3.3 Results 50 3.4 Discussion 65 3.5 Conclusions 69 3.6 References 71 3.7 Appendix 76 Chapter 4. Socioeconomic Position Modified the Effects of WorkLife Balance 81 4.1 Introduction 81 4.2 Materials and Methods . 83 4.3 Results 87 4.4 Discussion 99 4.5 Conclusions 103 4.6 References 105 Chapter 5. Summary and Overall Discussion 108 5.1 Contribution of this study . 108 5.2 Comparability of My Finding with Demand and Resources Approaches 109 5.3 Polices Implication for Work-Life Balance 110 5.4 Conclusions 112 5.5 References 114 국문초록 . 115Docto