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The areas of work and family form an imperative aspect of a person’s existence both require a significant amount of time and resources .If there is an in balance between the roles of work and family, it may lead to a rise in interpersonal and intrapersonal tensions in the work place which may result in work family tensions and reduction in the level of organizational commitment.Therefore, the current study aims to find out the association between work family conflict and Affective commitment.A sample of 280 doctors was selected from the population through non probability sampling which included convenience sampling and snow ball sampling technique. Google forms were circulated in a Whatsapp and Facebook group of doctors of the sample organization. In addition to this, an in-depth telephonic interview with 10 doctors to elicit why affective commitment exists was carried out. Data was collected from Jan 2021 to March 2021.The study follows a cross sectional design. Data was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively by way of Descriptive statistics, Reliability Analysis, Correlation, Multiple regression analysis through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 26.0) and Thematic Analysis was done to derive the themes. The association between the two variables was found out by way of Correlation analysis whereas regression was used to determine the extent to which two variables are related. The results found out that Work Family conflict (Time based, strain based and Behavior based) has a positive but weak relationship with Affective commitment. The thematic analysis determined various themes which cause work family conflict peculiar to doctors. Improper work schedule, lack of conducive infrastructure, lack of co-value creation, commuting time, age of children emerged to be most common themes. Further, in-depth interview revealed that attractive salary, gratification in serving people, attachment to people in hospital leads to affective commitment.The use of cross sectional design is one of the limitations of the study. Moreover, only one tertiary care hospital was taken as a sample. The results of this study various implication for the health care workers who work under grave conditions.

Work-Family Conflict, Organization Commitment, Health Care Workers