Self-Compassion and Work-Family Interference across Family System among Women School Teachers: A Cross-sectional Study
Keywords:
Family System, Self-Compassion, Work/Family InterferenceAbstract
The present study was conducted with the aim to find out the relationship between Self-Compassion and work/family Interference among women school teachers across the family system. Data was collected from rural and urban areas. It was hypothesized that there would be a negative relationship between self-compassion and work/family interference. The sample has consisted of (N=300) women school teachers (n=150 from urban area and n=150 from rural). A cross-sectional research design along with a non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from participants by using two tools i.e. Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) (Batool & Jabeen, 2016) and Work/Family Interference (WFI) (Hafsa & Jabeen, 2017). The results revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between self-compassion and work/family interference along with this work/family interference was found more in the joint family system as compared to the nuclear.
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