Work-family conflict and employee psychiatric disorders: The national comorbidity survey

This study examined the relation between work-family conflict and several t ypes of psychiatric disorders: mood, anxiety, substance dependence, and sub stance abuse. Survey data were obtained from a representative national samp le of 2,700 employed adults who were either married or the parent of a chil d Ig years old or younger. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses reveal ed that both work to-family and family-to-work conflict were positively rel ated to having a mood, anxiety, and substance dependence disorder. Dependin g on the type of wort-family conflict and type of disorder, employees who r eported experiencing a work-family conflict often were 1.99-29.66 times mor e likely than were employees who reported no work-family conflict to experi ence a clinically significant mental health problem. No support was found f or gender differences.