The effect of work and family role stressors on the well-being of public sector employees in South Korea: Three comparative perspectives of gender, role domain, and employment sector.

摘要

This study aimed to address the main research question of how work and family role stressors effect employees' well-being. In particular, this study addressed four main research topics: (a) whether work and family role stressors are significantly associated with well-being indicators; (b) whether work and family role stressors are related differently to well-being for men and women; (c) whether work and family role stressors have cross-domain effects, and which domain has more predictive power to explain an individual's healthiness; and (d) whether any differences exist between private- and public-sector employees in the relationship between work and family role stressors and well-being.;As a sub-sample of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, KLIPS, public sector employees and their family members were selected to address the research questions. As a result, 617 public-sector employees and their 467 families over 6 years were used in the data analysis. Three-level hierarchical linear models were employed to analyze the data since the research design of the dataset had a hierarchically nested data structure.;As a result, first, it was reported that work role stressors were significantly associated with well-being indicators, while family role stressors were not significantly associated with them. Only dual-earner family structure positively effected well-being. Second, it was found that men and women have a different relationship between stressors and well-being. Further, men showed a stronger relationship between work role stressors and well-being than women did, while women showed a stronger relationship between family role stressors and life satisfaction and self-rated health. Third, work role stressors were expected to be significantly associated with life satisfaction, whereas family role stressors were expected to be significantly related to job satisfaction. However, only work role stressors were significantly associated with life satisfaction; family role stressors were not. Work role stressors (i.e., salary, working hours, job fit, and job security) showed higher predictive power to explain self-rated health than family role stressors (i.e., number of children, age of youngest child, and dual-family structure) did. Finally, public and private employees showed a different relationship between work role stressors and well-being, but they had similar patterns in the relationship between family role stressors and job and life satisfaction.