Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2022 Mar;28(1):18-26. 10.4069/kjwhn.2022.01.07.

Do parenting stress, work-family conflict, and resilience affect retention intention in Korean nurses returning to work after parental leave?: a cross-sectional study

• Jung YE
• Sung MH

• KMID: 2527970
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2022.01.07

Abstract

Purpose
This study investigated whether parenting stress, work-family conflict, resilience affect retention intent in Korean nurses returning to work after parental leave.
Methods
The participants in this study were 111 nurses recruited from 10 hospitals in Korea, who were working after formal parental leave from their hospitals. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the t-test, analysis of variance, the Mann-Whitney U-test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression with IBM SPSS for Windows version 26.0 (IBM Corp.).
Results
Retention intention (33.80±7.78), parenting stress (101.70±17.57), and resilience (85.02±12.75) were at greater than moderate levels and a midpoint level of work-family conflict (29.63±7.00) was noted in this sample of mostly women nurses in their 30s. The factors affecting retention intent were parental leave duration, the number of times that participants had taken parental leave, health condition, work-family conflict, and resilience. The total explanatory power of these variables was 36.7%. Retention intent had a negative correlation with parenting stress and work-family conflict. Conversely, retention intent was positively correlated with resilience
Conclusion
This study supports the need for flexible adjustment of returning nurses’ working hours and family-friendly policies to promote balance between work and family. It is also necessary to develop and apply measures that boost resilience and support health improvement for nurses returning to work. As nurses are often assigned to new areas of work upon return, training programs to aid their adjustment may also be helpful.

Keyword

Conflict; Parental leave; Resilience; Retention; Stress; 갈등; 육아휴직; 자아탄력성; 재직; 스트레스

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