Table 1. Sex specific work-family conflict and demographic characteristics according to self-rated health.
| Men | Women | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Good health | Poor health | All | Good health | Poor health | |||||||||
| n = 7663 | n = 6598 | (86.1%) | n = 1065 | (13.9%) | n = 7070 | n = 5821 | (82.3%) | n = 1249 | (17.7%) | |||||
| Characteristics | N | % | N | % | N | % | p value* | N | % | N | % | N | % | p value* |
| Work-to-family conflict (WF conflict) | < .001 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| Low | 4858 | 63.4 | 4334 | 65.7 | 524 | 49.2 | 5062 | 71.6 | 4368 | 75.0 | 694 | 55.6 | ||
| High | 2805 | 36.6 | 2264 | 34.3 | 541 | 50.8 | 2008 | 28.4 | 1453 | 25.0 | 555 | 44.4 | ||
| Family-to-work conflict (FW conflict) | < .001 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| Low | 4873 | 63.6 | 4331 | 65.6 | 542 | 50.9 | 3056 | 43.2 | 2681 | 46.1 | 375 | 30.0 | ||
| High | 2790 | 36.4 | 2267 | 34.4 | 523 | 49.1 | 4014 | 56.8 | 3140 | 53.9 | 874 | 70.0 | ||
| Work–family conflict | < .001 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| Low WF and low FW conflicts | 3585 | 46.8 | 3255 | 49.3 | 330 | 31.0 | 2602 | 36.8 | 2331 | 40.0 | 271 | 21.7 | ||
| Low WF and high FW conflicts | 1273 | 16.6 | 1079 | 16.4 | 194 | 18.2 | 2460 | 34.8 | 2037 | 35.0 | 423 | 33.9 | ||
| High WF and low FW conflicts | 1288 | 16.8 | 1076 | 16.3 | 212 | 19.9 | 454 | 6.4 | 350 | 6.0 | 104 | 8.3 | ||
| High WF and high FW conflicts | 1517 | 19.8 | 1188 | 18.0 | 329 | 30.9 | 1554 | 22.0 | 1103 | 19.0 | 451 | 36.1 | ||
| Age | 0.01 | < .01 | ||||||||||||
| 40–49 | 2926 | 38.2 | 2485 | 84.9 | 441 | 15.1 | 2849 | 40.3 | 2377 | 40.8 | 472 | 37.8 | ||
| 50–59 | 3158 | 41.2 | 2720 | 86.1 | 438 | 13.9 | 3010 | 42.6 | 2424 | 41.6 | 586 | 46.9 | ||
| 60–64 | 1579 | 20.6 | 1393 | 88.2 | 186 | 11.8 | 1211 | 17.1 | 1020 | 17.5 | 191 | 15.3 | ||
| Household equivalent income | 0.11 | 0.36 | ||||||||||||
| Low | 2214 | 28.9 | 1883 | 28.5 | 331 | 31.1 | 2791 | 39.5 | 2280 | 39.2 | 511 | 40.9 | ||
| Intermediate | 2843 | 37.1 | 2454 | 37.2 | 389 | 36.5 | 2016 | 28.5 | 1658 | 28.5 | 358 | 28.7 | ||
| High | 2085 | 27.2 | 1819 | 27.6 | 266 | 25.0 | 1766 | 25.0 | 1472 | 25.3 | 294 | 23.5 | ||
| Missing | 521 | 6.8 | 442 | 6.7 | 79 | 7.4 | 497 | 7.0 | 294 | 7.1 | 86 | 6.9 | ||
| Educational attainment | 0.12 | 0.01 | ||||||||||||
| Junior high/high school | 3951 | 51.6 | 3389 | 51.4 | 562 | 52.8 | 3512 | 49.7 | 2879 | 49.5 | 633 | 50.7 | ||
| Some college | 1608 | 21.0 | 1371 | 20.8 | 237 | 22.3 | 2929 | 41.4 | 2401 | 41.3 | 528 | 42.3 | ||
| College or more | 2026 | 26.4 | 1771 | 26.8 | 255 | 23.9 | 559 | 7.9 | 488 | 8.4 | 71 | 5.7 | ||
| Missing | 78 | 1.0 | 67 | 1.0 | 11 | 1.0 | 70 | 1.0 | 53 | 0.9 | 17 | 1.4 | ||
| Employment status | 0.24 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| Regular worker | 4665 | 60.9 | 3993 | 60.5 | 672 | 63.1 | 2371 | 33.5 | 1888 | 32.4 | 483 | 38.7 | ||
| Non-regular worker | 914 | 11.9 | 799 | 12.1 | 115 | 10.8 | 3517 | 49.8 | 2930 | 50.3 | 587 | 47.0 | ||
| Self-employed | 2084 | 27.2 | 1806 | 27.4 | 278 | 26.1 | 1182 | 16.7 | 1003 | 17.2 | 179 | 14.3 | ||
| Occupation | 0.54 | 0.38 | ||||||||||||
| White-collar job | 5194 | 67.8 | 4490 | 68.1 | 704 | 66.1 | 5090 | 72 | 4177 | 71.8 | 913 | 73.1 | ||
| Blue-collar job | 2106 | 27.5 | 1809 | 27.4 | 297 | 27.9 | 1325 | 18.7 | 913 | 18.9 | 224 | 17.9 | ||
| Missing | 363 | 4.7 | 299 | 4.5 | 64 | 6.0 | 655 | 9.3 | 224 | 9.3 | 112 | 9.0 | ||
| Domestic role | < .001 | < .01 | ||||||||||||
| Non-married without children aged under 15 | 1176 | 15.4 | 984 | 14.9 | 192 | 19.0 | 957 | 13.5 | 755 | 13.0 | 202 | 16.2 | ||
| Married without children aged under 15 | 4081 | 53.3 | 3581 | 54.3 | 500 | 47.0 | 4085 | 57.8 | 3345 | 57.5 | 740 | 59.2 | ||
| Non-married with children aged under 15 | 60 | 0.8 | 52 | 0.8 | 8 | 0.8 | 210 | 3.0 | 177 | 3.0 | 33 | 2.6 | ||
| Married with children aged under 15 | 2309 | 30.1 | 1948 | 29.5 | 361 | 33.9 | 1793 | 25.4 | 1524 | 26.2 | 269 | 21.5 | ||
| Missing | 37 | 0.5 | 33 | 89.2 | 4 | 0.4 | 25 | 0.4 | 20 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.4 | ||
| Social support | < .001 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| Low | 4276 | 55.8 | 3565 | 54.0 | 711 | 66.8 | 3454 | 48.9 | 2722 | 46.8 | 732 | 58.6 | ||
| High | 3387 | 44.2 | 3033 | 46.0 | 354 | 33.2 | 3616 | 51.2 | 3099 | 53.2 | 517 | 41.4 | ||
| Hypertension | < .01 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| No | 6635 | 86.6 | 5743 | 87.0 | 892 | 83.8 | 6383 | 90.3 | 5322 | 91.4 | 1061 | 85.0 | ||
| Yes | 1028 | 13.4 | 855 | 13.0 | 173 | 16.2 | 687 | 9.7 | 499 | 8.6 | 188 | 15.1 | ||
| Diabetes mellitus | < .001 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| No | 7219 | 94.2 | 6245 | 94.7 | 974 | 91.5 | 6920 | 97.9 | 5722 | 98.3 | 1198 | 95.9 | ||
| Yes | 444 | 5.8 | 353 | 5.4 | 91 | 8.5 | 150 | 2.1 | 1198 | 1.7 | 51 | 4.1 | ||
| Hypercholesterolemia | < .01 | < .001 | ||||||||||||
| No | 6779 | 88.5 | 5868 | 88.9 | 911 | 85.5 | 6367 | 90.1 | 5291 | 90.9 | 1076 | 86.2 | ||
| Yes | 884 | 11.5 | 730 | 11.1 | 154 | 14.5 | 703 | 9.9 | 530 | 9.1 | 173 | 13.9 | ||
WF, work-to-family; FW, family-to-work.
*p value for Chi-squared test.