WORK AND HOME: THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO DOMAINS IN LIFE OF WORKING PEOPLE IN KYRGYZSTAN

Abstract

Similarly to other countries, working people in Kyrgyzstan experience a dramatic increase in the interrelationship between two domains of home and work, due to changes in the family structure, enhanced demands in the workplace and child-raising practices, an increasing number of women in the workforce in the last several decades, etc. The goal of the study was to explore the most common types of work/home interactions among working people in Kyrgyzstan, gender differences in the interactions between two domains, the demographic characteristics of the group that experiences the highest level of work-family conflict, and types of social support in organization and family life that is most helpful in reducing negative work-home interactions. The research compared interactions between home and work among males and females, governmental, nongovernmental and commercial organizations, married and single employees. The findings revealed that both social support at home and organizational support at workplace relate to work-home interactions. The study showed that both male and female employees in Kyrgyzstan evaluate positive work-home and home-work interactions significantly higher than negative interactions and no gender differences were revealed in the level of assessment of positive and negative interactions between work and home. The that significantly