Work-family conflict among healthcare professionals and healthcare associates in healthcare institutions on the territory of the Ćuprija municipality

Professional work can be a source of many difficulties, which can be reflected in the professional sphere, but which can also have an impact on a person's family life. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of work-family conflict among healthcare professionals and healthcare associates in healthcare institutions in the municipality of Ćuprija. The research was designed as a cross-sectional study conducted in the healthcare institutions of the Ćuprija Primary Healthcare Center, the Ćuprija General Hospital and the Pomoravlje Institute of Public Health, on a sample of 601 employed healthcare professionals and healthcare associates, during 2020. To assess the work-family roles conflict, the conflict of work and family roles scale was used, which examines two dimensions of the work-family conflict: the work-family conflict and the family-work conflict. Statistical processing of data was performed in the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 25.00) software package. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to examine the correlation between the research variables, while parametric techniques were used to examine the differences between the research variables: the t-test and the ANOVA. The respondents show a slightly more pronounced level of the work-family conflict, and a lower level of the family-work conflict. Statistically significant differences were found in terms of the intensity of dimensions of the work and family roles conflict (work-family and family-work) in relation to age, work experience and the respondents' professional status. More emphasis should be placed on researching the issue of work-family conflict in order to implement appropriate preventive measures to reduce the existing conflicts.