Work-family conflict is a role conflict that may reduce work engagement amongmarried female nurses who perform dual roles as employees and mothers. Thisstudy aimed to examine the effect of work-family conflict on work engagementamong married female nurses at RSUD Solok Selatan. A quantitative correlationaldesign was employed involving 92 respondents selected using a total samplingtechnique. Data were collected using the Work-Family Conflict Scale and theUtrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) and analyzed using simple linearregression. The findings revealed that work-family conflict had a significant negativeeffect on work engagement (F = 118.309; t = -10.877; p < 0.001), with a coefficientof determination (R²) of 0.568. This indicates that work-family conflict accounted for56.8% of the variance in work engagement. The results suggest that higher levelsof work-family conflict are associated with lower levels of work engagement.Therefore, managing work-family conflict is essential to enhance the workengagement of married female nurses.
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