Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the fitness of a model that hypothesized the mutual influence between the work-family and family-work conflicts. This study also examined whether these two types of conflicts were directly influenced by involvement, expectation, and social support. Subjects in this study consisted of 159 male and 159 female workers in various organizations. First, EFA was conducted in order to identify factor structure of the measurement variables. Second, LISREL was conducted in order to test the causal relationship among the three predict variables(i.e., involvement, expectation, and social support) and the two criterion variables(Le, work →family and family→woyk conflicts). Finally, t-test was conducted in order to test the sexual difference in work-family conflicts. The results of this study indicated that the model proposed had a moderately good fitness. In addition, it was found that the sexual difference in family→work conflicts did exist Therefore, it may be beneficial to consider the model proposed in this study to alleviate work-family conflicts.