Parent being a physician: Any influence upon job stress in young physicians

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to inspect the whether being the child of a physician would be of importance for how young physicians experience job stress. Methodology: The data collected from the public Hospital in Lahore are used to test the relationship among turnover intention and job satisfaction, work stress and work-family conflict. The data collected in this study was analyzed by using SPSS. Findings: The results from this study shows Female physicians with a physician parent reported higher levels of job stress over the whole period compared with males with a physician parent. This gender difference did not occur within the group without a physician parent. Male young physicians showed a trend (not quite significant) to be less stressed than their peers without a physician parent. Women physicians were overrepresented in a group with persisting high stress level over the period.