Lotta Nylén1, Bo Melin, Lucie Laflamme. 1. Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. lotta.nylen@ki.se
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Demands from work and home may interfere with one another and the stress engendered by that can be detrimental to health. PURPOSE: To study the relationship between experienced interference and subjective health, and address the impact of unwinding on these associations. METHOD: Questionnaire data from a representative sample of the Swedish population are used considering full-time and part-time employed women and men aged 25-64. The associations between negative interference (either work-home or home-work) and sleep quality, self-rated health, and the use of sleeping pills/tranquillizers are analyzed by means of logistic regressions, compiling odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The impact of adjustment for lack of unwinding on these associations is assessed. RESULTS: Work-home interference is associated with suboptimal sleep quality and self-rated health for both women and men. The significance of this disappears among women after adjustment for lack of unwinding, regardless of work schedule. Among both sexes, home-work interference is associated with suboptimal sleep quality and self-rated health. When adjusting for lack of unwinding, the relationship to sleep quality disappears, but not the one to self-rated health, equally for women and men. CONCLUSION: Only among women, unwinding seems to buffer the association between work-home interference and health.
BACKGROUND: Demands from work and home may interfere with one another and the stress engendered by that can be detrimental to health. PURPOSE: To study the relationship between experienced interference and subjective health, and address the impact of unwinding on these associations. METHOD: Questionnaire data from a representative sample of the Swedish population are used considering full-time and part-time employed women and men aged 25-64. The associations between negative interference (either work-home or home-work) and sleep quality, self-rated health, and the use of sleeping pills/tranquillizers are analyzed by means of logistic regressions, compiling odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The impact of adjustment for lack of unwinding on these associations is assessed. RESULTS: Work-home interference is associated with suboptimal sleep quality and self-rated health for both women and men. The significance of this disappears among women after adjustment for lack of unwinding, regardless of work schedule. Among both sexes, home-work interference is associated with suboptimal sleep quality and self-rated health. When adjusting for lack of unwinding, the relationship to sleep quality disappears, but not the one to self-rated health, equally for women and men. CONCLUSION: Only among women, unwinding seems to buffer the association between work-home interference and health.
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