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The impact of work-family conflict on the mental health of female employees in the financial sector of China: a cross-sectional study
Originally published 2026-05-20 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1807662 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about organizational support for competing work and family demands in finance; the original evidence concerns 2342 female employees in China's financial sector.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Can the wellbeing of a high-pressure workforce be understood without its family demands?
This reading brings work-family conflict alongside anxiety, sleep, stress and depressive-symptom measures into the kindness pathway. The cross-sectional financial-sector employee survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2342 female employees in China's financial sector
Age / stage: Working adult women; not exclusively parents
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess the separate screening measures and work-family conflict?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about adjusted associations and the interpretation of symptom prevalence?
- What would need to be checked before adopting organizational support for competing work and family demands in finance?
Keep the limits in view
Self-reported screening scores are not clinical diagnoses; cross-sectional recruitment and one sector constrain prevalence and causal claims.
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Yan Chen; Jie Tian; Kaixuan Huang; Ni Song; Zhe Zhou; Zhongxia Shen (2026). The impact of work-family conflict on the mental health of female employees in the financial sector of China: a cross-sectional study Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1807662
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