- Title
- Personality in relation to work-family conflict among employees in a mining company in South Africa
- Creator
- Ruzungunde, Vongai Sarah
- Subject
- Job stress Role conflict Work and family
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD (Industrial Psychology)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17007
- Identifier
- vital:40809
- Description
- The study set out to investigate how the Big Five personality traits related to work family conflict, taking into consideration the different forms of work family conflict within the mining industry. The study made use of the quantitative design, with the sample consisting of 270 respondents from the selected mine in South Africa. Probability sampling was used to select respondents from the whole population. Data was analysed using descriptive statistical analysis. To examine the association between variables, linear regression analysis was used. Confirmatory analysis was used to measure validity for work-family conflict (WFC). To measure the validity for personality; face validity, construct and content validity were used. Reliability was measured using the Cronbach alpha. The results of the study showed a significant negative relationship between the personality traits and WFC except for the agreeableness trait. The results also showed significant negative correlations with the different forms of WFC, except for the agreeableness trait. Further, the results showed that, when combined, personality traits had greater variance on the experiences of WFC than each of them separately. The findings of this study are helpful to the mining industry as they assist in the implementation of procedures and policies that will help to reduce WFC and its consequences in the work environment.
- Format
- 272 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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