Conflict, Work Stress, Job Burnout, and Turnover Intention: Examining Differences Based on Marital Status and Gender Cover Image

Çatışma, Stres, Tükenmişlik ve İşten Ayrılma Niyeti: Medeni Durum ve Cinsiyete Göre Farklılıkların İncelenmesi
Conflict, Work Stress, Job Burnout, and Turnover Intention: Examining Differences Based on Marital Status and Gender

Author(s): Meltem Yavuz, Meltem Akca
Subject(s): Economy, Gender Studies, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Family–Work Conflict; Job Burnout; MANOVA; Turnover Intention; WorkFamily Conflict; Work Stress;

Summary/Abstract: The demanding mutual expectations of employees and organisations can be influential on the way increasing individuals’ role ambiguity along with family– work/work-family conflicts. Changing employment status of partners, responsibilities for child and elderly care, relations between family members, specifications of psycho-social working conditions, superior-subordinate communication, and work opportunities may be determinant on employee’s job outcomes such as work stress, job burnout, and turnover intention. This study aims to find out the differences of these variables based on the marital status and gender in the perception of employees. In order to achieve this, a questionnaire was administered on a sample of 457 participants but 401 questionnaires underwent to the analysis after the final check. While the factorial structures of the scales were analysed through LISREL 8.8 Scientific Software International Programme, the validity of scales and the other analysis were tested by IBM SPSS Statistics 21 Programme. According to the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) results, the work stress and burnout levels of the divorced employees were found significantly higher than that of married and single employees. The study also found that the conflict and turnover intention levels of the women employees were significantly higher than that of men employees.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 827-846
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish