Marital quality: work-family conflict as a vulnerability factor

In this paper the authors present a research on job stress and work-family conflict and their consequences for marital quality and wellbeing. 90 heterosexual couples of Italian nationality fill out two questionnaires: an ad hoc multidimensional questionnaire that includes various dimensions of the marital quality and work-family conflict scale, by Carlson and Kacmar. We observed a more presence of work interference with family than family interference with work and some consequences of work-family conflict on marital quality. The authors conclude supporting the need for further studies on the topic not only to increase the knowledge about it, but also to promote prevention and educational initiatives of work-family conflict.