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The impact of work-family conflict on correctional staff job satisfaction: An exploratory study

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Correctional staff job stress has grown dramatically as a result of the increase in inmate populations, legal interventions, and competing ideologies. A wealth of literature has been published on correctional staff job stress. This literature, however, has failed to address the impact of work-family conflict on correctional staff job satisfaction. A survey, administered to correctional staff at a midwestern prison, reveals that role ambiguity and work-on-family conflict have a significant negative effect on correctional staff job satisfaction, while family-on-work conflict does not. Implications are discussed.

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  2. Indiana State University, USA

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Lambert, E.G., Hogan, N.L. & Barton, S.M. The impact of work-family conflict on correctional staff job satisfaction: An exploratory study. Am J Crim Just 27, 35–52 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02898969

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