Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
School of Human and Community Development
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[email protected] aim of the present study was to explore how women general practitioners
experience work-family conflict, their sense of coherence, coping resources as well as
implications of these on their level of job satisfaction. This involved investigating the
bi-dimensional model of the work-family conflict and measuring them against other
investigated variables like coping resources, sense of coherence and job satisfaction.
The research was conceptualized based on the stress and coping models. Literature
review based mostly on international level revealed that women doctors do experience
work-family conflict and that it does impact on their level of well-being. The sample,
which consisted of women general practitioners residing in the Gauteng province, was
obtained using snowballing method and non-probability sampling method. A hundred
and fourteen questionnaires were distributed by mail and within a period of three
months only 28 questionnaires had been returned of which 22 were used for statistical
procedures. Statistical analysis involved a number of procedures including Pearson
correlation, t-test procedures and partial correlation methods. The results revealed that
women general practitioners do experience work-family conflict especially one aspect
of it known as the family interference with work (F→W). Furthermore results
indicated that the experience of work-family conflict, specifically the F→W amongst
these women does affect their level of job satisfaction in a significantly negative way.
Demographics on the other hand proved to have no significant impact on the level of
job satisfaction amongst these women. Lastly, it was noted that even though these
women employed a wide variety of coping resources none of them proved to have any
significant effect on their level of job satisfaction
