Work, Family and Personality: An Examination of Work-Family Conflict among Indian IT Employees

Abstract

Work-family conflict is unavoidable in modern western life. A plethora of studies have focused on the
prevalence, antecedents, and outcomes of work-family conflict and family-work conflict, but empirical
research regarding the role of personality factors have been only minimally considered as predictors of
work–family conflict. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of
personality in the experience of work-family conflict. Present study has conducted on the two hundred
fifty married information technology (IT) professional from various software organization. Data were
obtained on the basis of response of the IT professional by means of structured questionnaires. Different
statistics (correlation coefficients and hierarchical regression analysis) have been used to examine the
nature of relationships between big-five personality traits and work-family conflict. Findings of this study
have revealed that neuroticism was found to be significantly positively related to the work-to-family
conflict and family-to-work conflict. Further, the findings indicated significant negative associations
between both the directions of work-family conflict (i.e. work-to-family and family-to-work conflict) and
extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness traits. Finally, implications for the research and
practice have been discussed.