Differential Relationships Between Work-Life Interface Constructs and Intention to Stay in or Leave the Profession: Evidence From Midwives in Canada.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: SAGE Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0376475 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1558-691X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00332941 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Rep Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2016- : Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE
      Original Publication: Louisville, Ky. : Southern Universities Press,
    • Subject Terms:
      Intention* ; Personnel Turnover* ; Midwifery*; Humans ; Canada ; Female ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Job Satisfaction ; Work-Life Balance ; Male
    • Abstract:
      This paper investigates how positive and negative work-personal life interface constructs are differentially associated with intentions to stay in or leave the profession. The findings help map work-personal life interface constructs on the typology of determinants of intention to stay and intention to leave (disengagers, retainers, criticals, and neutrals). The ordered logistic regression (ologit) modelling of cross-sectional data from a representative sample ( n = 601) of midwives in Canada shows that work interference with personal life is a disengager, which has a stronger association with intention to leave than with intention to stay in the profession. Among the work-personal life interface constructs, work enhancement of personal life seems to be the most critical determinant, showing the most substantive association with both intention to stay and intention to leave. This finding suggests that interventions to increase midwives' intention to stay and decrease their intention to leave should focus on amplifying the enhancing effects of working on midwives' personal lives. Interventions that aim to reduce work interference with personal life might be more effective in decreasing intention to leave the profession than increasing intention to stay.
      Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: intention to leave; intention to stay; job demands-resources model; salutogenic theory; work-life conflict and enhancement
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20221014 Date Completed: 20240502 Latest Revision: 20240505
    • Publication Date:
      20240505
    • Accession Number:
      PMC11067423
    • Accession Number:
      10.1177/00332941221132994
    • Accession Number:
      36240200