Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Role Stress, Work-Family Conflict, and Life Satisfaction
2.2. The Protective Role of Work Support
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Data and Sample
3.2. Measures
3.2.1. Outcome Variable
3.2.2. Independent Variable
3.2.3. Mediator
3.2.4. Controlled Covariates
3.2.5. Demographic Characteristics
3.3. Data analysis
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Cities | DG | FS | GZ | HZ | JM | SZ | ZQ | ZS | ZH | Total N |
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N of female (percent of city N) | 87 (76.99%) | 98 (84.67%) | 284 (80.45%) | 71 (75.53%) | 99 (93.42%) | 321 (78.29%) | 10 (83.33%) | 71 (73.20%) | 93 (85.32%) | 1134 (80.20%) |
M years of age (SD) | 28.88 (4.75) | 28.84 (5.43) | 28.42 (5.75) | 30.53 (5.53) | 30.07 (6.11) | 29.37 (5.23) | 29.83 (4.90) | 28.96 (5.57) | 30.01 (7.19) | 29.21 (5.64) |
M years of education (SD) | 15.83 (0.76) | 15.60 (1.10) | 15.46 (1.15) | 15.23 (1.36) | 15.31 (1.20) | 15.63 (1.25) | 15.00 (1.04) | 15.50 (0.94) | 14.84 (1.56) | 15.48 (1.21) |
M years of tenure (SD) | 4.91 (2.92) | 3.53 (2.75) | 3.49 (2.58) | 3.54 (3.08) | 3.92 (2.76) | 4.1 (3.03) | 2.42 (2.75) | 3.75 (2.82) | 2.61 (2.97) | 3.76 (2.89) |
N of married (percent of city N) | 58 (51.33%) | 58 (48.33%) | 147 (41.64%) | 65 (69.15%) | 61 (61.32%) | 183 (44.63%) | 8 (66.67%) | 46 (47.42%) | 55 (50.46%) | 681 (48.16%) |
N of Assistant Social Worker (percent of city N) | 34 (30.09%) | 16 (13.33%) | 45 (12.75%) | 16 (17.02%) | 18 (16.98%) | 80 (19.51%) | 1 (8.33%) | 15 (15.46%) | 6 (5.50%) | 231 (16.34%) |
N of Junior Social Worker (percent of city N) | 58 (51.33%) | 58 (48.33%) | 120 (33.99%) | 2 (2.13%) | 55 (51.89%) | 200 (48.78%) | 2 (16.67%) | 56 (83.58%) | 36 (33.03%) | 587 (41.51%) |
N | 113 | 120 | 353 | 94 | 106 | 410 | 12 | 97 | 109 | 1414 |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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1. WS-D | - | 0.66 *** | 0.56 *** | 0.61 *** | −0.23 *** | −0.34 *** | −0.06 * | −0.16 *** | −0.13 *** | 0.05 |
2. WS-M | - | 0.68 *** | 0.58 *** | −0.30 *** | −0.33 *** | −0.04 | −0.16 *** | −0.16 *** | 0.08 ** | |
3. WS-S | - | 0.55 *** | −0.27 *** | −0.29 *** | −0.08 ** | −0.20 *** | −0.18 *** | 0.07 ** | ||
4. WS-C | - | −0.23 *** | −0.36 *** | −0.07 * | −0.18 *** | −0.16 *** | 0.10 *** | |||
5. RA | - | 0.43 *** | 0.10 *** | 0.35 *** | 0.26 *** | −0.16 *** | ||||
6. RC | - | 0.09 ** | 0.30 *** | 0.28 *** | −0.20 *** | |||||
7. RO | - | 0.15 *** | 0.11 *** | −0.09 *** | ||||||
8. WIF | - | 0.54 *** | −0.22 *** | |||||||
9. FIW | - | −0.20 *** | ||||||||
10. LS | - | |||||||||
Mean | 3.72 | 4.18 | 4.96 | 4.1 | 2.73 | 2.47 | - | 1.76 | 1.33 | 3.4 |
SD | 1.01 | 0.82 | 0.84 | 0.77 | 0.62 | 0.48 | - | 0.84 | 0.73 | 0.77 |
Cronbach’s α | 0.89 | 0.92 | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.73 | 0.76 | - | 0.82 | 0.83 | - |
->WS | ->RA | ->RC | ->RO | ->WIF | ->FIW | ->LS | |
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Work Support | −0.32 *** | −0.44 *** | −0.04 | −0.04 | −0.03 | −0.01 | |
Role Stress Role Ambiguity | 0.25 *** | 0.18 *** | −0.00 | ||||
Role Conflict | 0.17 *** | 0.17 *** | −0.12 *** | ||||
Role Overload | 0.09 ** | 0.05 | −0.05 | ||||
WIF | −0.14 *** | ||||||
FIW | −0.08 * | ||||||
Covariates | |||||||
Assistant SW | −0.03 | −0.03 | −0.04 | 0.14 *** | 0.07 * | 0.07 * | −0.02 |
Junior SW | −0.09 * | 0.02 | −0.04 | 0.05 | −0.03 | −0.03 | −0.04 |
SW Job Tenure | −0.15 ** | 0.03 | −0.04 | 0.04 | 0.09 * | 0.04 | 0.04 |
Demographics | |||||||
Female | −0.04 | −0.05 | −0.02 | 0.02 | 0.05 * | 0.02 | 0.06 * |
Age (years) | 0.04 | −0.02 | −0.04 | −0.10 ** | 0.02 | −0.06 | −0.04 |
Married | 0.04 | −0.07 * | −0.10 ** | −0.02 | −0.05 | −0.02 | 0.11 ** |
Education (years) | −0.09 ** | 0.04 | 0.06 | −0.02 | 0.04 | −0.00 | 0.04 |
Factor loadings for indicators of the latent variable Work Support (WS) | |||||||
WS -> | Director | Manager | Supervisor | Coworkers | |||
Factor loading | 0.70 *** | 0.77 *** | 0.74 *** | 0.67 *** | |||
Model-fit index | |||||||
= 2.62; RMSEA = 0.04, with 90% CI = [0.03–0.05]; CFI = 0.98; TLI = 0.94 |
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Jia, C.X.; Cheung, C.-k.; Fu, C. Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8881. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238881
Jia CX, Cheung C-k, Fu C. Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(23):8881. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238881
Chicago/Turabian StyleJia, Cindy Xinshan, Chau-kiu Cheung, and Chengzhe Fu. 2020. "Work Support, Role Stress, and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Social Workers: The Mediation Role of Work-Family Conflict" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 23: 8881. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238881