Work family balance, stress, and salivary cortisol in men and women academic physicians

dc.contributor.authorBergman, B
dc.contributor.authorAhmad, F
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Donna Eileen
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-12T04:39:52Z
dc.date.available2016-08-12T04:39:52Z
dc.date.issued2008-03
dc.description.abstractBackground: The stress of medical practice has been recurrently studied, but work- and family-related determinants of health by gender remain under researched. Purpose: To test the hypothesis that cortisol excretion would be affected by the perceived severity of total workload imbalance. Method: By hierarchical regression analysis, the associations between work-family balance and diurnal salivary cortisol levels by sex in academic physicians (n = 40) were investigated. Results: Men physicians reported more paid work hours per week than women physicians and women more time in childcare, but their total working hours were similar. Controlling for sex and age, the mean of the diurnal cortisol release was associated with a combined effect of sex and responsibility at home. When morning cortisol, sex, and children at home were held constant, cortisol levels in the evening were associated with responsibility at home without significant gender interaction. Conclusion: With increasing responsibility at home, women and men reacted differently with regard to cortisol responses over the day. However, in the evening, controlling for the morning cortisol, these gender differences were not as obvious. These findings highlight traditional gender patterns among both women and men physicians in the challenge of finding a balance between work and family.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study has been supported by grants from The Swedish Institute, Sweden, and the University Health Network Women's Health Program, Toronto, Canada. Ulf Dahlstrand, the Department of Psychology, Gö teborg University, Sweden, has given valuable assistance in statistics.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBergman B, Ahmad F & Stewart DE. Work family balance, stress, and salivary cortisol in men and women academic physicians. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2008. 15(1):54-61.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31788
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rights“The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03003074.”en_US
dc.rights.articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03003074en_US
dc.subjectCareeren_US
dc.subjectStressen_US
dc.subjectCortisolen_US
dc.subjectWork-familyen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectWorkloaden_US
dc.titleWork family balance, stress, and salivary cortisol in men and women academic physiciansen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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