Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government

Abstract

The aim of this research was to predict the effects of work-family conflict on job satisfaction
among Pakistani general practitioners. The study consisted of 184 general practitioners from
different units of Nishtar Hospital Multan and Fatima Jinnah Women Hospital Multan. The
10items work-family and family-work conflict questionnaire was used to assess work-family
conflict and the instruments were taken from the study conducted by the Boyar and Carson
(2006). However,the 20 items Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire created by Weiss and
Dawis (1967) was used to assess an individual’s level of job satisfaction for this study.Using
regression analysis, there wasevaluated that work-family conflict has a significant effect on
job satisfaction among the general practitioner. Further, there were no major differences in
the degree of work-family conflict and job satisfaction among general practitioners based on
gender or marital status according to independent samples t-test. Using ANOVA, significant
variations in the degree of work-family conflict in general practitioners were analyzed based
on their age. However, there was no significant variance in work satisfaction levels based on
age. In the future, it will be fascinating to see how disparities in marital status and gender
affect general practitioners.