The Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Somatic Complaints among Nigeria Banking Workers
Mgbenkemdi Ejike. H1 & Ekwo J.C2
Department of Psychology
Enugu State University of Technology Enugu, Agbani-Enugu State Nigeria
Email: iamejike@yahoo.co.uk/ judechukwudi18@gmail.com
Abstract: The Study investigated the relationship between work-family conflict and somatic complaints among Nigeria banking workers. Using criterion sampling technique, a total of 90 participants comprising 47 males and 43 females bank workers were drawn from 3 commercial banks and 3 community banks in Enugu metropolis of Enugu in Eastern Nigeria were drawn to participate in the study. The bank workers were within the ages of 25-55 years with a minimum qualification of HND and B.Sc and above. Okonkwo, (2009) work –family conflict interference scale and Ebigbo, et al, (2016), Enugu Somatization scale were administered individually to the participants. A correlational design and statistics were used for data collection and analysis to test the hypotheses which stated that those somatic complaints (intensity and frequency) jointly did not predict Nigerian operation bankers’ work to family conflict remarkably. Also that somatic complaint (intensity and frequency) independently did not predict Nigerian operation female/male banker’s work to family conflict remarkably. Result showed low negative correlation .092 on intensity of somatization (n=90) between work-family conflict and somatic complaints. Generally, the result revealed a negative correlation on frequency and a positive correlation on intensity of somatization with a strong implication on frequency of symptom manifestation.
Keywords: Work-family conflict and somatic complaints.
