Work family conflict among nurses : A case study on Sarawak General Hospital / Faizah Sabil... [et.al]

Work-family conflict has been developed by Greenhaus and Beutell (1985) as the source of conflict. Currently, there is interest towards conflict in between family life and work as well as the conflict by individuals between their role at work and in the family which called as work-family conflict.
Based on the statistics in year of 2010 from the Department of Public Service, Malaysia, it mentioned that women comprise of 50% in the work force labor and 70% of them are married. People tend to face the issues of juggling work and family when they started to work. Balancing between work and family is a challenge in an adult’s life. Enrichment occurs if there is a positive side of combining family and work. However, if they are unable to manage both, this becomes conflict. Inter role conflict defines as a form of role conflict in which the sets of opposing pressures arise from participation in different roles. Kahn (1964) has defines role conflict as the “simultaneous occurrence of two (or more) sets of pressures such that compliance with the other”.