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- Title
Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain).
- Authors
Chela-Alvarez, Xenia; Garcia-Buades, M. Esther; Ferrer-Perez, Victoria A.; Bulilete, Oana; Llobera, Joan
- Abstract
The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and to understand the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional study was conducted through Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands (Spain); 1,043 HHs were enrolled. 56.7% reported difficulties in WLB. Risk factors for perceiving difficulties in WLB were: living with someone else (regardless of the number of co-habitants), having difficulties making ends meet, being the main person in charge of domestic tasks, having a dependant, having an external locus of control, presenting higher levels of stress at work, working more hours a week and being younger. Protective factors from experiencing work-family conflict (WFC) were job and wage satisfaction. WFC is strongly influenced by individual, economic, labour and domestic factors: these relationships show that labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds.
- Subjects
BALEARIC Islands (Spain); SPAIN; FAMILY-work relationship; HOUSEKEEPERS; JOB stress; WORK-life balance; LABOR market; MENTAL arithmetic
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2023, Vol 17, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0269074