ABSTRACT
Source: Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 71, 1998, 237-60.
Abstract Characteristics of medical work suggest that doctors art specially vulnerable to stress between work and home. The present study adopted a theoretical approach towars the study of the relationship between occupational stress and home life in doctors in Scotland, comparing male and female general practitioners (GPs) and specialist consultants. First, the relationship between role complexity and stress, workload, job satisfaction and domestic stress and satisfaction was examined. Second, the theory of asymmetric permeability of occupational and domestic roles was used to compare the impact of work-to-home (WH) and home-towork (HW) stress. Gender and medical speciality differences were considered as intervening variables.
