Expanding the psychosocial work environment: workplace norms and work-family conflict as correlates of stress and health

J Occup Health Psychol. 2004 Jan;9(1):83-97. doi: 10.1037/1076-8998.9.1.83.

Abstract

This study examined the contributions of organizational level norms about work requirements and social relations, and work-family conflict, to job stress and subjective health symptoms, controlling for Karasek's job demand-control-support model of the psychosocial work environment, in a sample of 1,346 employees from 56 firms in the Norwegian food and beverage industry. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that organizational norms governing work performance and social relations, and work-to-family and family-to-work conflict, explained significant amounts of variance for job stress. The cross-level interaction between work performance norms and work-to-family conflict was also significantly related to job stress. Work-to-family conflict was significantly related to health symptoms, but family-to-work conflict and organizational norms were not.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Conflict, Psychological*
  • Family*
  • Female
  • Food Industry
  • Humans
  • Linear Models
  • Male
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Norway
  • Organizational Culture*
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology*
  • Workplace*