IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) e-ISSN: 2278-487X, p-ISSN: 2319-7668. Volume 20, Issue 4. Ver. IV (April. 2018), PP 19-24 www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/487X-2004041924 www.iosrjournals.org 19 | Page The Role Of Family Support In Moderating The Influence Of Work-Family Conflict On Job Stress *Iga Galuh Ardhaningrat 1 , Ni Wayan Sri Suprapti 2 , Desak Ketut Sintaasih 3 1,2,3 Post Graduate Program of Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia Corresponding Author: Iga Galuh Ardhaningrat Abstract: Job stress in career women often occurs due to an imbalance between work and family affairs. If a married career women experiences a work-family conflict then it can lead to negative consequences such as emotional fatigue which ultimately leads to job stress. From this perspective, family support can help reduce job stress due to work-family conflicts. The purpose of this study is to explain the effect of work-family conflict on job stress with family support as a career female moderator in Bali Province. Research subjects are married career women. Determination of sample size using Slovin formula resulted in 88 people and data were analyzed by moderation regression analysis.The results showed that work-family conflict has a positive and significant effect on job stress. Family support can reduce the impact of work-family conflict on job stress. In this study also uses different test analytical techniques. The results showed there was a difference in job stress between women who have a career in government and women who have career as an entrepreneur. Different test results show the job stress of a career women as an entrepreneur higher than the job stress of a career women that work in government. Keywords: Career women, work-family conflicts, family support, job stress. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 02-04-2018 Date of acceptance: 17-04-2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction Women's participation today is not just about demanding equal rights with a man, but for actualize themselves play a role in tradition and transition. There are two roles of women's participation, the first concerning the role of tradition or domestic is the role of women as wives, mothers, and managers of households, and the second concerning the role of transition or public is the role of women as labor, community members and human development (Indriyani, 2009). The role of women is not enough just to fulfill the nature of acting as housewives, but also to play a role in the world of work to help the family's economic life (Carbo et al., 2013). The roles played by career women will certainly lead to role conflict if they collide with one another due to the demands of responsibility in living the balance of tradition and transition roles (Bernhard and Florensia, 2014). Continuous imbalance and mixing of roles with strong intensity if not handled quickly and appropriately will cause mental stress or stress on a person (Ariani, 2011). Feelings of stress and anxiety in a family career women usually occur when they try to fulfill the role demands of their work but that effort is influenced by their ability to meet the demands of their family, and otherwise, can occur when the fulfillment of role demands in the family is influenced by the person's ability to fulfill demands his job (Frone, 2000). Job demands relate to pressures arising from excessive workload and time, such as work to be done on time, while family demands relate to the time needed to handle household chores and babysitting (Benjamin, 2012). Based on simple interviews conducted on several career women in Bali Province who are divided into groups of women who have career in the field of government and a group of women who career as an entrepreneur, obtained information that both groups of women who have this career have job stress. Both groups of career women are stressed on the situation when they face two roles at once as a career women and also as a housewife. Women who have a career in government experience job stress when they can not manage time between work with family. Meanwhile, job stress experienced by women who career as an entrepreneur tend to more often deal with the tension in the work environment. Women who work as entrepreneurs have an uncertain time, so they can not definitely divide their time between work and family. Job stress experienced also due to having a great sense of responsibility in the success of self-actualization so as to produce a prestigious achievement of self, family, employees, and his company. One of effort that can be made to overcome the negative impact of work-family conflict on job stress in career women is to manage positive sources that are around the individual namely the existence of social support, especially the support of the family. The classic definition of a family is the residence, economic co- operation and reproduction of two adults of different sexes, both of whom maintain socially agreed relationships