Working Carers in Europe and How Their Caring Responsibilities Impact Work-Family Life Conflict: Analysis of the European Quality of Life Survey.

IF 2.4 4区 医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Healthcare Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI:10.3390/healthcare12232415
Valentina Hlebec, Miriam Hurtado Monarres, Zdenka Šadl
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Background/Objectives: Ageing of the population is a pertinent characteristic in developed societies that raises questions of who provides care and how care is provided to frail and dependent old people. The majority of care is provided by family members, friends, and neighbours, many of whom are of working age and active in the labour market. The aim of this study is to research how work and care are intertwined and how they cause conflict for individuals in Europe. Methods: A hierarchical regression analysis of European Quality of Life Survey data was performed to evaluate the amount of explained variance of work-life conflict according to caring situation, working conditions, and demographic characteristics of an adult European population. A stratified, clustered multistage sample design was used to select 15,656 adult respondents working as employees. Results: The results show that the three blocks explain about 18% of work-life conflict, with working conditions being the most influential block, followed by demographic characteristics and caring situation. Conclusions: The frequency of caring, use of formal care, and quality of formal services significantly mitigate work-life conflict, together with the number of working hours, commuting, fear of losing one's job, fear of having insufficient income in old age, and the ease of making ends meet. Care regimes also have a considerable effect on work-life conflict. Countries have the power and responsibility to support working carers in their multiple and often conflicting roles by allowing flexible work arrangements, the right to reduce the number of working hours safely, employment protection during care, emergency leave, and short- and long-term leave, as well as by investing in community-based long-term care models and services.

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欧洲的职业照护者及其照护责任如何影响工作与家庭生活的冲突:欧洲生活质量调查分析》。
背景/目标:人口老龄化是发达社会的一个相关特征,它提出了由谁提供护理以及如何为体弱和依赖他人的老年人提供护理的问题。大部分护理工作是由家庭成员、朋友和邻居提供的,其中许多人已到工作年龄,并活跃在劳动力市场上。本研究的目的是研究在欧洲,工作与护理是如何交织在一起的,以及它们是如何对个人造成冲突的。研究方法对欧洲生活质量调查数据进行了分层回归分析,以评估根据照顾情况、工作条件和欧洲成年人口的人口特征对工作与生活冲突的解释变异量。采用分层、聚类多阶段抽样设计,选出了 15656 名成年雇员受访者。结果显示结果显示,这三个因素解释了约 18% 的工作与生活冲突,其中工作条件是影响最大的因素,其次是人口特征和照料情况。结论护理频率、正规护理的使用和正规服务的质量,以及工作时数、通勤、对失去工作的恐惧、对年老时收入不足的恐惧和维持生计的难易程度,都能显著缓解工作与生活之间的冲突。护理制度对工作与生活的冲突也有相当大的影响。各国有权力也有责任支持工作照护者扮演多重且往往相互冲突的角色,为此应允许灵活的工作安排、安全减少工作时数的权利、照护期间的就业保护、紧急休假、短期和长期休假,以及投资于基于社区的长期照护模式和服务。
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Healthcare Medicine-Health Policy
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期刊介绍: Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers), which publishes original theoretical and empirical work in the interdisciplinary area of all aspects of medicine and health care research. Healthcare publishes Original Research Articles, Reviews, Case Reports, Research Notes and Short Communications. We encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. For theoretical papers, full details of proofs must be provided so that the results can be checked; for experimental papers, full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculations, experimental procedure, etc., can be deposited along with the publication as “Supplementary Material”.
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