Conflict between roles at work and at home affect 11 percent of working men and women and may lead to fatigue and other mental health problems, reports a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Researchers analyzed rates, risk factors, and consequences of work-family conflict in a sample of more than 12,000 Dutch workers. Researchers defined work-family conflict as some degree of "mutual incompatibility" between pressures on the job and at home, leaving the person with insufficient time and energy to perform either role successfully.