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Expanding the Psychosocial Work Environment: Workplace Norms and Work-Family Conflict as Correlates of Stress and Health

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 1346 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.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • Unknown
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Year

2004

Published in

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

ISSN

1076-8998

Publisher

American Psychological Association (APA)

Issue

9

Page(s)

83 - 97

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