SOCIAL AND FAMILY LIFE IMPACT OF SHIFT WORK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FAMILY MEMBERS

COSTA, DANIELA; SILVA, ISABEL SOARES

doi:10.1590/S0034-759020190204

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ARTICLES • Rev. adm. empres. 59 (2) • Mar-Apr 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-759020190204 copy

SOCIAL AND FAMILY LIFE IMPACT OF SHIFT WORK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FAMILY MEMBERS

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ABSTRACT

Research has thus far privileged the impact of shift work on workers' health from the workers' perspective. Inversely, this study evaluates the impacts of such a work schedule on the family and social life of workers according to their partners' perspective. It also compares the impacts of two different work schedules (shift work vs. standard work) on family and social life. Five hundred and fifteen partners of Portuguese police officers participated in the study, and it was found that shift work has a moderate to high impact on all evaluated areas of family and social life. Partners of shift workers report greater impacts on family reorganization and joint social life. Regarding the two work schedules, statistically significant differences were found in all evaluated areas, and the partners of shift workers reported greater impacts of their partner's work schedule than did the partners of day workers.

KEYWORDS
Work schedules; shift work; family and social life; family members' perspective; police officers

Variable		Group 1		Group 2		Total^* * The obtained N can be different from the sample size (N=515) due to missing values in some variables.
Variable		n	%	N	%	n	%
Gender	Female	271	67.2	47	42.0	318	61.7
Gender	Male	132	32.8	65	58.0	197	38.3
Marital status	Single	25	6.2	5	4.5	30	5.8
	Married	305	75.7	92	82.1	397	77.1
	Union	66	16.4	12	10.7	78	15.1
	Divorced	7	1.7	3	2.7	10	1.9
Professional situation	Full-time work	336	83.4	105	93.8	441	85.6
	Part-time work	23	5.7	1	0.9	24	4.7
	Housework	12	3.0	4	3.6	16	3.1
	Unemployed	31	7.7	2	1.8	33	6.4
	Retired	1	0.2	0	0.0	1	0.2
Work schedule	Day shift	181	51.0	63	60.6	244	53.2
	Morning shift	6	1.7	0	0.0	6	1.3
	Evening shift	0	0.0	1	1.0	1	0.2
	Night shift	2	0.6	0	0.0	2	0.4
	Rotating shift	162	45.6	38	36.5	200	43.6
	Other	4	1.1	2	1.9	6	1.3
Have you ever worked in shifts?	Yes	246	61.0	86	76.8	332	64.5
Have you ever worked in shifts?	No	157	39.0	26	23.2	183	35.5
Children's age	Under 6 years	136	43.2	32	32.3	168	40.6
	From 6 to 12 years	89	28.3	31	31.3	120	29.0
	From 12 to 18 years	51	16.2	18	18.2	69	16.7
	Over 18 years	39	12.4	18	18.2	57	13.8

Item^* * The number of items is not sequential, due to the existence in the questionnaire of supplementary questions between the scale items	Factor 1	Factor 2
1. How do you feel about your partner working shifts?	0.164	0.450
3. Have you ever had any opposition or conflict with your partner which you feel was due to your partner working shifts?	0.139	0.820
4. Generally speaking, do you feel that your relationship with your partner has been disrupted or harmed due to your partner working shifts?	0.368	0.804
5. Do you feel that your intimate personal relationship has suffered at any time as a result of your partner working shifts?	0.359	0.768
6. Does your partner's shift working interfere with your joint social life? (i.e., does it stop you from going out together as much as you would like?)	0.725	0.497
7. Do you find that you and your partner have to constantly rearrange your lives to accommodate your partner's shift work?	0.672	0.504
8. By keeping the noise level down during the day after a night shift (e.g., not doing housework, having to be very quiet, not having guests or keeping children quiet).	0.767	0.364
9. By preparing meals at unusual times or changing their mealtimes to accommodate your partner.	0.758	0.360
10. By taking much greater responsibility for childcare	0.721	0.358
11. By having to be alone for much of the time during the day.	0.877	0.214
12. By having to be alone for much of the time during the evening.	0.885	0.210
13. By having to be alone during the night.	0.801	0.264
14. To what extent does your partner's shift work interfere with your personal social life or free time? (e.g., hanging out with friends, going to cinema, going to the hairdresser or taking a walk)?	0.721	0.469
15. Is your partner able to change shifts with a colleague, or get time off easily, for special occasions such as birthdays or weddings, or does everything have to adapt to your partner's shift pattern?	0.289	0.550
17. If you have children living at home, do you feel that your partner has enough day-to-day contact with them in general?	0.373	0.495
% of variance explained by factor	39.37	26.21

Models	χ²/gl	GFI	NFI	CFI	RMSEA
Model 1	8.995	0.739	0.788	0.806	0.161
Model 2	6.782	0.798	0.842	0.861	0.137
Model 3	6.020	0.821	0.871	0.890	0.127
Model 4	3.326	0.901	0.930	0.950	0.087

Variable	Mean	Standard deviation
7. Constant reorganization of family life	7.89	2.59
8. Noise level	7.68	2.68
6. Joint social life	7.58	2.74
13. Being alone during the night	7.52	2.91
9. Meals schedule	7.32	2.87
10. Responsibility for children	7.19	2.87
14. Personal social life	7.18	2.78
11. Being alone during the day	6.97	2.91
5. Intimate relationships	6.36	3.09
4. Marital relationships	6.14	2.98
15. Flexible hours	5.81	2.87
17. Parental contact	5.54	2.76
3. Marital conflicts	4.98	3.18

Variable		Total^* * The obtained N can be different from the sample size (N=403) due to missing values in some variables;
Variable		n	%
Have you ever tried to persuade him to change working hours?	Yes	220	54.6
	No	183	45.4
Are you usually aware of your spouse/partners' shift work schedules?	Yes	365	90.6
	No	38	9.4
If you think that contact with children is insufficient, do you think that is harmful to them?	Yes	181	62.4
	No	109	37.6
Parental contact for different working hours:^ The higher the value, the greater the perceived interference in parental contact; M (SD)^* ***** M (Mean), SD (Standard Deviation)	Morning shift	5.25 (2.57)
	Evening shift	5.80 (2.70)
	Night shift	6.44 (2.88)
Do you think that another working schedule would improve his contact with the children?	Yes	275	88.7
	No	35	11.3

	Group 1 (N=403)	Group 2 (N=112)	U
3. Marital conflicts	282.34	170.42	32376.50^* ***** p < .001
4. Marital relationship	292.33	134.47	36403.50^* ***** p < .001
5. Intimate relationships	290.06	142.65	35487.00^* ***** p < .001
6. Joint social life	300.02	106.79	39503.50^* ***** p < .001
7. Constant reorganization of family life	298.73	111.46	38981.00^* ***** p < .001
10. Responsibility for children	238.69	113.46	24771.50^* ***** p < .001
14. Personal social life	298.31	112.95	38813.50^* ***** p < .001
17. Parental contact	224.89	136.33	21424.00^* ***** p < .001

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