Work V/S Family: Examining the Effects on Relationships

While work gives financial stability and a sense of success, disregarding family needs due to job obligations can be detrimental. Strong family ties are critical to our well-being. They provide emotional support, a sense of belonging, and add to our general satisfaction. This delicate balance between the two, or rather the struggle to preserve this, is known as work family conflict. The juggling between them creates a strain to be there in two places at once in both the situations generates a sense of being grabbed in different ways, which can leave you feeling stretched out. Work Family Conflict like on other variables such as psychological wellbeing, life satisfaction has potential repercussions on family relationships which is an essential aspect of life. This research intended at understanding the effects of conflict between job and family on family relationships. Data was collected from 153 individuals (80 females and 73 males), between the age of 23 and 60, using the Index of Family Relations (IFR) and Work Family Conflict Scale created in 1983 by Kopelman, Greenhaus and Connolly. The impact was studied through correlation between these two variables using Pearson’s correlation, also the gender differences in context of these variables were assessed using the t-test. The results imply that there would be little effect of the degree of work and family conflict on family relationships directly and whether you will have a good or bad relationships with them, also there was a very little difference among males and females in context of work family conflict and family relationships but it’s not significant enough to draw strong conclusions so males and females faced somewhere same work family conflict and have similar level of satisfactory family relationships. The study notably contributes and suggests further researches are needed to understand the complex interplay between these variables, especially in diverse cultural backgrounds and familial dynamics.