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authors: Chela, X.; Garcia-Buades, M.; Ferrer-Perez, V. A.; Bulilete, O.; Llobera, J.
title: Work-family conflict among hotel housekeepers in the Balearic Islands (Spain)
date: 2022-05-16
journal: nan
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159
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doc_id: 319246
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The massive incorporation of women to the labour market has increased academic and applied interest on work-life issues throughout the years. This article aims to describe the domestic burden and difficulties in work-life balance (WLB) and at understanding the intersection of work and family spheres among hotel housekeepers (HHs). A cross-sectional study was conducted through Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands (Spain); 1,043 HHs were enrolled. 56.7% report difficulties in WLB. Risk factors for perceiving difficulties in WLB were: living with one or two co-habitants, low social support, having difficulties making ends meet, being the main responsible person for domestic tasks, having a dependant, presenting higher levels of stress at work and being younger. Protective factors from experiencing work-family conflict (WFC) were job and wage satisfaction. WFC is strongly influenced by individual, economic, labour and domestic factors: these relationships show that labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds.

The massive incorporation of women to the labour market in the past decades raised the interest on the articulation of paid and unpaid work. Western societies have been traditionally organized around the sexual division of labour, by which men have been the main responsible partner for paid work and women for unpaid care work. This division of labour has been challenged by the growth in the number of women entering the labour market. Accordingly, the interest on work-life balance issues has been increasing through the years (1) and has been the focus of several studies from decades ago (see e.g. Rapoport & Rapoport, 1965 (2)).

Paid and unpaid work run with different logics that might result in incompatible demands.

From a role-conflict approach, role responsibilities at work generate negative consequences on non-work roles and vice versa, in the so-called "work-family conflict" (WFC) (3, 4) . Conflict may arise in two directions: work demands may interfere with family demands or family demands may interfere with work demands, although both conflict directions are moderately correlated (5) . Throughout the article, the term WFC refers to conflict in general, that is, to what extent the responsibilities of one life sphere interfere with the accomplishment of the responsibilities in other life domains regardless the direction in which it takes place (3) . Hence, the absence of work-life balance (WLB) implies conflict.

When balance between work and non-work life is achieved, several positive outcomes have been described at different levels. Positive outcomes of WLB at work have been reported such as increases in job performance and satisfaction, organizational commitment, and decreases in job burnout and absenteeism (4, 6) . Negative outcomes of WFC include a reduction of life, family and parental satisfaction (6) , a raise in poor health condition, cognitive problems and conflicts with family members (4) . Additionally, as WFC increases, psychological distress, hypertension and incidence of alcohol abuse, among others, increase as well (4) . Due to the importance of the work and non-work interface for individual well-being, it is a significant research topic in studies relating work and quality-of-life.

Jobs in the hospitality sector have been associated to a greater job stress (7) . In the Balearic Islands (Spain), where the tourist sector contributed to 44% GDP (pre-pandemic data) (8) , hotel housekeepers (HHs) are a very important occupational group (approx. around 13,000).

HHs' job is characterized by low control and high physical demands (9, 10) , which may entail not having enough time off to recover from the job demands that HHs have to face in their working day. In the Balearic Islands, although most HHs work 40 hours per week, in a continuous working-day and they have little options for flexible scheduling, since they are assigned a fixed amount of rooms that must be cleaned every day. In addition, HHs work more intensely during the summer season, when schools are closed and available children care services are mostly private to make up for insufficient public-funded care services. Therefore, we can expect HHs being an occupational group presenting WFC. The objectives of this study are to describe the domestic burden of HHs in the Balearic Islands, to assess the perception about difficulties in balancing work and non-work life and to understand the factors that explain WFC.

Several studies have focused on the antecedents of WFC, identifying individual, . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ;  https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05. 16 .22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint sociodemographic, family and domestic, and work factors.

Locus of control (LOC) has been identified as an antecedent of WFC at the individual level. LOC refers to a personality trait understood as the perception a person has about the control of the events that occurred in their life (11) . LOC can be internal -those who think that things that happen in their life are consequence of their attitudes, actions and behaviour -or externalthose who attribute what happens in their life to fortune, fate or other's decisions - (11) .

Previous evidence found that people with internal LOC tend to experience low levels of WFC (12) (13) (14) ; therefore, we can expect that HHs with an external LOC will have higher levels of WFC.

Regarding family factors, being a parent of younger children and the number of children have been reported as making WLB more difficult (1,3). This is because demands from work settings make it more difficult to reconcile with those from domestic sphere and vice versa.

Labour/work variables described as making WLB more difficult are the following: having a temporary contract (1), higher number of working hours (1, 3, 4, 15) , inflexibility of work schedule (3), time pressure (4) and high job demands (4). On the contrary, a continued working schedule was identified by HHs in the Balearic Islands as a facilitator for combining work and family responsibilities (10) .

Social support has been studied as a contextual antecedent of WFC and has been defined as "the degree to which a person's basic social needs are gratified through interaction with others. Basic social needs include affection, esteem or approval, belonging, identity, and security" (16; p.147). Studies have focused on the relation between work-family support and WFC, showing that individuals presenting higher levels of social support report lower levels of work-family conflict (14, 17, 18) . Additionally, Haines et al. (2019) (19) found that women reported more social support outside work, which was associated with lower WFC. We expect . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) that HHs with lower social support will present more difficulties balancing work and family spheres.

Additionally, some structural factors such as gender and social class inequalities have an impact on WFC. In Spain, despite the growth of the participation of women in paid work/labour market, they tend to remain linked to care and domestic work, while men remain doing a small proportion of unpaid work (20) (21) (22) . The Spanish Time-Use Survey indicated that women in the Balearic Islands spent 3 hours and 59 minutes daily in households and family activities, while men spent 2 hour and 23 minutes (23) . In Spain, data for 2010 from the European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE) reported that women spent 2 hours and 57 minutes per day in household and family care and men 1 hour and 18 minutes (24). This represents a gender gap, i.e. "gap in any area between women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights, remuneration or benefits" (25). This gender gap has consequences in other areas of life and is influenced by gender norms (26, 27) . Despite this unequal contribution, there is mixed evidence whether women and men report different degrees of WFC (1, 19, 21, 28) .

Social class also plays a central role in WLB. Evidence on the association of social class, gender and the division of domestic and care tasks pointed out to the fact that working class women appear to provide the bulk of social care (29) . Further, time women devote to housework varies depending on their relative income, so that as income increases, time devoted to housework decreases. This inverse relationship seems to be present up to the point at which women contribute to half the household income (20) . However, Altuzarra et al. (2020) (20) reported that income was not associated with time devoted to childcare. Widely, working class people have been reported as those with higher levels of imbalance between their work and life spheres (1,30) and higher household income has been related to lower WFC (19) . Despite this, most studies on WFC have not focused on working class or unskilled workers (30) (31) (32) .

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The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05. 16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint Given that and the fact that HHs are mostly women and are considered unskilled manual workers, we expect relevant levels of WFC. WLB is also framed by institutional context, such as the welfare state regime. Spain has been labelled as a Southern welfare state regime -coupled with Italy, Greece and Portugal-, characterized by low levels of social expenditure; higher proportion of population at risk of poverty; higher inequality levels; the presence of strong 'familism', a term to describe that family (women) has a central role in providing care work (29, 33) ; and the underdevelopment of family benefits and services (29, 34, 35) . Spain's expenditure on family and children was 0.9% of GDP in 2019, while the EU-27 average was 1.8% (36) . In face of that, "individual informal arrangements are the most common strategy to reconcile work and family life" (35, 37) and women become the main caregivers (38) . Furthermore, research has explored the importance of cultural context as significant for work-family interface (39) . 

This is a cross-sectional study, conducted at centres of Primary Health Care in the Balearic Islands between November 2018 and February 2019. The study was carried out in 39 out of 58 . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review)

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint primary health care centres in the Balearic Islands. It is noteworthy that data collection was made previous to COVID19 pandemic.

HHs who were older than 18 years, had health coverage in the Balearic Public Health System, worked as HHs during 2018, and were willing to participate in this study were included after signing the informed consent. Those who presented a language barrier were excluded.

An initial list of about 13,000 possible HHs was available from the Balearic Public Health Services. A randomly selected sample of 1,043 HHs was needed to estimate population parameters, with a 3% precision, a confidence of 95%.

Before inclusion, nurses were trained for conducting the study. They were in charge of recruiting HHs: they telephoned, asked for inclusion criteria and set up a date for the visit. All study visits were carried out in the Primary Care Health Centres and the interviews lasted for one hour approximately.

In order to enrol the amount of HHs needed, 4,436 phone calls were made (some HHs were called more than once in order to be contacted or recruited). Finally, 1,043 HHs were enrolled: 773 in Mallorca, 89 in Menorca, 137 in Eivissa and 44 in Formentera.

WFC was measured through the difficulties reported in WLB in response to the question "How easy or difficult is it for you to combine work with your care responsibilities?". The respondent gave an answer of "very easy", "rather easy", "rather difficult", "very difficult", "do not . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (2) Domestic and familiar:

 Number of co-habitants. First, HHs were asked whether they were living alone. In case they did not live alone, HHs were asked who were they living with. This variable was operationalized as number of people living in the household. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint people older than 74 years old, and responsibility for domestic tasks (cleaning, ironing, cooking,…). For each item, the following response options were available: they alone; their partner alone; shared with their partner; shared with another person who was not their partner; another person from home who was not their partner; a hired person; a person who does not reside in the house; social services; him/herself; another situation; do not know/do not answer. It was a multiple answer question. In order to simplify the analysis and the results, for bivariate and multivariate analyses we transformed the care of dependents in a dichotomous variable: having or not a dependant (including the three categories). The variable 'main person in charge of domestic tasks' was dichotomized as well: being the main responsible of the care vs.

other situation.

 Social support was measured by DUKE-UNC-11 (42) , an 11-item questionnaire that measured functional elements of social support (including confidant and affective support) and validated for the Spanish population (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.90) (43, 44) .

Each item is valued in a 5-points scale ranging from 1 ("much less than I would like") to 5 points ("as much as I would like"). A final score ranging from 5 to 55 is obtained; 32 points or below correspond to a low social support and more than 32 points correspond to a normal social support (44) .

 Difficulties making ends meet was measured by asking "A household might have different sources of income and more than a member can contribute with his/her income. Thinking about the total of your household monthly income, can you make ends meet…?" with 6 response options: "very easy", "easy", "rather easy", "a bit difficult", "very difficult", "do not know/do not answer". The question was taken from the EQLS 2016.

(3) Labour. The instrument included questions on type of contract (permanent, recurring-seasonal or temporary), type of accommodation (apartment, hotel, etc.), . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. To assess the relationship between sociodemographic and labour variables with difficulties in WLB the chi-squared test was used to compare proportions and Student's t-test to compare means; p-values under 0.05 were considered statistically significant (2-sided tests) and a limit of p<0.20 was used to select predictors in the multivariate analysis. A post-hoc z-test on the adjusted residuals with Bonferroni correction was applied to detect between which categories there were significant differences. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. significance of each interaction was determined using the likelihood ratio test. Hosmer-Lemeshow test was used to test goodness of fit for logistic regression models.

All statistical analyses were done with SPSS for Windows version 23.0.

The study was approved by the Balearic Islands Research Ethics Committee (IB3738/18 PI). An information sheet and informed consent was given to the participants before undertaking the interview. Signed agreement of the forms was compulsory to participate.

Sociodemographic, individual, and labour characteristics of HHs included in the sample (n=1,043) are shown in Table 1 . Most HHs had Spanish nationality, had attained compulsory education, had an external LOC (n = 617/1,035; 59.6% IC95% 56.6-62.6), a recurring seasonal contract, and worked in a hotel (mostly a 4-star hotel). Most HHs perceived having normal social support, stated having difficulties making ends meet, and balancing work and care responsibilities. More than a third HHs indicated to be very frequently overwhelmed by daily tasks. HHs presenting difficulties in combining work and care responsibilities reported higher stress levels and lower scores in job and wage satisfaction (p<0.001). . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022 ASR: Adjusted standardized residuals Bonferroni post-hoc correction *Indicates in which categories there are significant differences. ** t-Student test

Binary logistic regression results for difficulties in WLB (table 5) showed OR and p-values.

People living with one or two more people, with low social support and having difficulties making ends meet were more than twice likely to report difficulties balancing work and family life. Other risk factors were being the main person responsible for domestic tasks, having some dependant, presenting higher levels of stress at work and being young. Protective factors from experiencing WFC were satisfaction with their job and with their wage.

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The interest on the articulation of paid and unpaid work has been increasing through years.

Despite the growth of the participation of women in paid work/labour market, they are still the main responsible person in the household for unpaid care and housework. Conflict between work and non-work spheres has been widely explored due to its negative outcomes on life satisfaction and well-being. However, few studies have focused on working class or unskilled workers. The objectives of this study were to describe the domestic burden of HHs and to assess personal, labour, economic, and family factors that explain WFC within HHs, a non-skilled 100% feminized occupational group in the Balearic Islands (Spain).

Our findings revealed that HHs present difficulties for combining work and family life to a great extent. The proportion of HHs reporting to have difficulties in the articulation of paid work and other responsibilities (56.7%) is higher than that of Spanish working women -51.9% according to the European Quality of Life Survey 2016. Characteristics of HHs' job -inflexible work hours, high physical demands,…-might represent a barrier to attend personal and family demands.

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The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05. 16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint Additionally, the frequency of being overwhelmed by daily tasks is higher among HHs (76.2%) compared to working women according to the last available data from the Spanish Time Use Survey (2002-03), in which 61.6% declared to be overwhelmed by daily tasks (16.7% very frequently, and 44.9%sometimes). Part of these differences in relation to national and international surveys might be associated to the fact that these surveys include a more heterogeneous sample regarding social class, while our study focused on a single occupational group.

Furthermore, these data are consistent with surveys and research on time-use, which have largely reported differences between men and women as well as an unequal involvement in household tasks, being higher among women (21, 45, 46) . Additionally, and consistent with our results, difficulties in WLB have been reported as being greater among blue collar workers (1).

Binary logistic regression allowed us to control for the effect of different variables from both spheres -family/personal and work-. Results regarding factors explaining WFC indicated that higher levels of stress at work and family demands and characteristics (having dependants, living with one or more people, being the main responsible for domestic tasks), coupled with social (low social support) and economic factors (difficulties making ends meet) had a statistically significant association with an increase in WFC. On the contrary, higher levels of job and wage satisfaction had a protective effect on WFC. These relationships show how labour and domestic spheres are non-separate worlds, since the characteristics of one influence the performance of the other. Results also show that WLB is beyond individual willing and is strongly influenced by economic, labour and domestic factors along with gendered allocation of care and housework.

Regarding variables related to domestic and family sphere, results indicated that there was a . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ;  https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint higher proportion of HHs who presented WFC among those who cohabited with one or more people, had dependants or were the main responsible person for domestic tasks. The proportion of HHs who assumed alone the care of minor and disabled and household chores was lower than those registered by working women -regardless of their social class-in the Spanish National Health Survey (2011-12) -last data available-. The positive relationship between number of household members and WFC pointed at the fact that HHs did not have enough resources to face the increase in care and housework demands as the number of members increase. Two explanations might account for this relationship. First, it might be explained by the fact that the more members a household has, the more domestic chores have to be done; thus, it might reflect that the increase in housework was probably assumed mainly by HHs, since women have been described to be the main responsible person for care (45, 47) .

Second, it appeared that household members were more a burden -because they were dependent (children, older, disabled) and were not able to carry out domestic chores-than a resource for performing domestic tasks. Specially, having children has been associated to an increase in unpaid work (45, 47, 48) and to increased WFC (49) .

The distinction between domestic tasks and care work is important because both imply different requirements (50) ; housework tends to be routine and sometimes boring, while childcare tends to be perceived positively by parents and as an investment. Moreover, care for dependents cannot be postponed and it must be done on a daily basis. Due to these differences, to include these variables separately in the analysis should be assessed as strength.

The positive relationship between assuming more care responsibilities or household chores and WFC can be explained by the time-based conflict, defined as the "time spent on activities within one role generally cannot be devoted to activities within another role" (3) . As well, energy devoted to one domain cannot be devoted to the other domain. Thus, in the case of . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ;  https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05. 16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint HHs, the combination of a high physically demanding and stressful job with a high care and domestic burden probably results in WFC. Additionally, results may reflect the gendered allocation of care and household labour (45) by which women are supposed to be the main responsible person for these demands. Despite this, some studies show that women and men report similar levels of WFC (28, 49) , in part because women tend to adjust their working demands (i.e. schedule) in order to respond more adequately to family demands and reduce levels of WFC (19) .

Although we did not ask for HHs' satisfaction with working schedule in this study, in a previous qualitative study (10) Our findings support that social support (at work, from family and friends) reduces WFC among HHs (18, 19) . HHs with higher support at the workplace, from family and friends experienced lower WFC probably because they had help to face and manage contradicting demands from work and family spheres.

Furthermore, having difficulties making ends meet was an important variable to explain WFC. This is in line with studies which found that higher income levels were associated to lower levels of WFC (19) , because workers with lower levels of income have less economic resources to access paid aid to reduce household chores. Despite this, there is mixed evidence regarding the relationship between income level and WFC (7, 51) . Our results seem to reveal that having difficulties making ends meet make feel HHs more pressured to fulfil work demands due to the importance of their wage for the subsistence and well-being of their family. Besides, it may indicate the impossibility to reduce working hours. These results point out to the relevance of . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review) 

Regarding labour variables, our findings showed the importance of the levels of stress (49) in predicting WFC. This is consistent with the strain-based conflict, which "exists when strain in one role affects one's performance in another role" (3). Thus, tiredness and/or distress produced at work may hinder facing properly the demands from the domestic domain. In the hospitality context, Zhao et al. (2014) (7) concluded that interferences between job and nonwork spheres as well as job characteristics increased employees' stress. HHs' job is characterized by inflexible work hours and low control among other factors which may explain the high levels of stress related to WFC. Generally, this evidence manifests that the organization and characteristics of work settings have a straight impact on personal life, and supports the idea about the close interrelationship between work and non-work spheres.

Other labour variables included in the model were wage and job satisfaction. HHs reporting more difficulties to combine work and family demands showed low levels of job and wage satisfaction, a relationship that might be bidirectional. Research has established that experiencing role conflict in life domains entails dissatisfaction and outcomes related to stress as well as consequences over work and non-work spheres (4, 52, 53) . As research indicates, perceiving WFC is likely to imply dissatisfaction across life domains because individuals do not feel able of performing their responsibilities properly.

Our results support the relevance of structural factors and power relations to explain WLB experiences, being employees with higher educational level and in managerial positions those with lower WFC (54) . Our findings underscore the importance of the intersectionality approach to WFC issues, since different intersected variables are crucial in explaining this social phenomenon. In this sense, according to prior evidence presented in this manuscript, gender . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review)

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint and social class interact in the way individuals experience WFC.

Limitations of this study include the fact that data were collected in winter (low season in the Balearic Islands) in order to be able to reach HHs for interviews. Most HHs do not work in winter, which might lead to an under estimation of WLB difficulties when asked for a situation that took place few weeks or months ago. Second, due to the importance of gender in approaching to work-life interface, the fact that HHs is a 100% feminized occupational group entails that comparison with men could not be undertaken. Third, data collection took place before COVID19 pandemic; thus, the picture presented here has probably changed.

The interconnection between life and work domains emphasized by the results of our study entails the necessity to incorporate individual, family, labour and economic variables when approaching the work-family interface. Due to the complexity of the WFC phenomenon, adopting an intersectional approach is essential in future studies. This implies including not only gender, but also social class, due to the importance of economic resources at explaining WFC.

The results presented in this manuscript allow outlining some strategies to improve the articulation of work and life domains among HHs. At work, hospitality companies should implement measures to reduce daily stress, such as diminishing the number of rooms cleaned per day or the variety of tasks carried out by HHs (10) . This kind of measures would increase HHs' autonomy and reduce time pressure; thus stress at work would be reduced. Second, given the relevance of the economic factor in explaining WFC, hospitality companies should improve wage conditions too. Third, public authorities should contribute to a better articulation of work and non-work domains. On one hand, they might launch campaigns to . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (which was not certified by peer review)

The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted May 16, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.16.22275159 doi: medRxiv preprint foster co-responsibility between partners for caring and performing household tasks, giving value to reproductive tasks and oriented, above all, towards men. On the other hand, services to support caring (for dependents, but also children) must be fostered, improved, and oriented, above all, towards people with less economic and support resources. This should include affordable childcare services, summer-camps, day-care centres for elderly and home assistance, among other.

This study provides a detailed understanding of individual, labour, economic and family factors explaining WFC among HHs, a non-skilled 100% feminized occupational group. Risk factors of perceiving difficulties in WLB were living with one or two more people, reporting low social support, having difficulties making ends meet, being the main person responsible of domestic tasks, having some dependant, presenting higher levels of stress at work and being younger.

Protective factors from experiencing WFC were satisfaction with their job and with their wage.

Thus, our findings highlight the connection between work and personal demands and resources. Additionally, results indicate that intersection between social class and gender, at least, plays a central role in explaining WFC.

The data presented in this study are available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author.

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