the association between social adjustment and work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior in clinical staff of the khatam-al-anbia hospital in salmas in 2019

Background: clinical staff are particularly prone to work-family conflict due to their professional nature and require interdisciplinary collaboration and social adjustment to increase their job motivation and achieving success in teamwork. objectives: the current study aimed to investigate the association between social adjustment and work-family conflict as well as organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) in hospital clinical staff. methods: this descriptive correlational study was conducted on all (n=115) nurses and midwives working in khatam-al-anbia hospital in salmas in 2019. data were collected using 4 questionnaires of (1) demographic information, (2) social adjustment, (3) work-family conflict, and (4) organizational citizenship behavior. data were analyzed using spss version 16 by pearson correlation, independent t-test, and one-way anova. results: most of the employees were female (84.5%), married (67.3%), had a bachelor's degree (90%) and had work experience of 8.77±7.18 years. there was a significant indirect association between social adjustment and work-family conflict (r=-0>.21, p=0.05). there was no significant association between social adjustment and ocb (r=-0.06, p=0.65). conclusion: this study demonstrated an indirect association between social adjustment and work-family conflict in hospital clinical staff. therefore, nursing managers can improve the quality of patient care by developing employees' adaptation skills programs intended to reduce their work-family conflict.