@article {33871, title = {Assessing the relationship between work-family conflict and smoking.}, journal = {Am J Public Health}, volume = {102}, number = {9}, year = {2012}, month = {2012 Sep}, pages = {1767-72}, abstract = {OBJECTIVES: We examined the relationship between smoking and work-family conflict among a sample of New England long-term-care facility workers. METHODS: To collect data, we conducted in-person, structured interviews with workers in 4 extended-care facilities. RESULTS: There was a strong association between smoking likelihood and work-family conflict. Workers who experienced both stress at home from work issues (i.e., work-to-home conflict) and stress at work from personal issues (i.e., home-to-work conflict) had 3.1 times higher odds of smoking than those who did not experience these types of conflict. Workers who experienced home-to-work conflict had an odds of 2.3 compared with those who did not experience this type of conflict, and workers who experienced work-to-home conflict had an odds of 1.6 compared with workers who did not experience this type of conflict. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate that there is a robust relationship between work-family conflict and smoking, but that this relationship is dependent upon the total amount of conflict experienced and the direction of the conflict.}, keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Conflict (Psychology), Cross-Sectional Studies, Family, Female, Health Personnel, Humans, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, New England, Nursing Homes, Prevalence, Questionnaires, Smoking, Work, Young Adult}, issn = {1541-0048}, doi = {10.2105/AJPH.2011.300413}, author = {Nelson, Candace C and Li, Yi and Sorensen, Glorian and Berkman, Lisa F} }