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Association between nonstandard work schedules and employees’ self-rated mental health with perceived work stress, work–family conflict and job satisfaction as psychosocial mediators: a national study in China
Originally published 2025-05-29 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1561653 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about schedules assessed for predictability and recovery as well as coverage; the original evidence concerns 1857 employed Chinese General Social Survey respondents in 2021.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How does the pattern of a work schedule shape life outside work?
This reading brings nonstandard schedules, stress, job satisfaction and self-rated mental health into the kindness pathway. The cross-sectional national employee survey analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
1857 employed Chinese General Social Survey respondents in 2021
Age / stage: Working adults across schedule types
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess fixed, rotating and irregular schedules?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about parallel and joint statistical pathways through conflict and stress?
- What would need to be checked before adopting schedules assessed for predictability and recovery as well as coverage?
Keep the limits in view
Observational mediation and self-rated mental health cannot establish causal schedule effects; small groups such as fixed-night workers limit some comparisons.
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Zhan Wang; Guangsheng Zhang (2025). Association between nonstandard work schedules and employees’ self-rated mental health with perceived work stress, work–family conflict and job satisfaction as psychosocial mediators: a national study in China Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1561653
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