The Association between Job Quality Profiles and Work-Life Balance among Female Employees in Korea: A Latent Profile Analysis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Job Quality Indices
2.2.2. Demographic and Occupational Characteristics
2.2.3. Work-Life Balance
2.3. Data Analysis
2.4. Ethical Considerations
3. Results
3.1. Job Quality Profile Models
3.2. Five Job Quality Profiles
3.3. Female Employee Distribution in Job Quality Profiles
3.4. Association between Job Quality Profiles and Work-Life Balance
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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No. of Profiles | BIC | Entropy | LMR-LRT | Latent Profile Proportions (%) | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
2 | 768,383.82 | 0.882 | <0.001 | 12.3 | 87.7 | ||||
3 | 764,042.05 | 0.810 | <0.001 | 12.8 | 65.5 | 21.7 | |||
4 | 761,201.32 | 0.834 | <0.001 | 4.9 | 12.3 | 19.8 | 62.9 | ||
5 | 758,586.04 | 0.745 | <0.001 | 18.2 | 4.0 | 8.5 | 38.7 | 30.6 | |
6 | 757,048.45 | 0.777 | <0.001 | 3.7 | 8.3 | 17.9 | 34.8 | 34.8 | 0.5 |
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Choi, E.Y.; Choi, S.-H.; Lee, H. The Association between Job Quality Profiles and Work-Life Balance among Female Employees in Korea: A Latent Profile Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 1672. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041672
Choi EY, Choi S-H, Lee H. The Association between Job Quality Profiles and Work-Life Balance among Female Employees in Korea: A Latent Profile Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(4):1672. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041672
Chicago/Turabian StyleChoi, Eun Young, Seung-Hye Choi, and Haeyoung Lee. 2021. "The Association between Job Quality Profiles and Work-Life Balance among Female Employees in Korea: A Latent Profile Analysis" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 4: 1672. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041672