Unpartnered Mothers’ Work-Family Conflict and Parenting Stress: The Moderating Effects of Nonstandard Work Schedules

Hwang, Woosang; Jung, Eunjoo

doi:10.1007/s10834-019-09647-x

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“…Experience of work-family conflict is associated with high parenting stress and low parenting satisfaction in dual earner couples with preschool-aged children in Portugal (Vieira et al 2012) and among low-income fathers and unpartnered mothers in the United States (Hwang & Jung 2020;Nomaguchi & Johnson 2016). Work-to-family or family-towork conflict is also linked to parents' psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety disorder and alcohol and drug abuse among married couples with or without children (Frone 2000) and in the general adult population (Grzywacz & Bass 2003) in the US.…”

Section: Work-family Interface and Parents' Psychological Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Li¹,

Bünning²,

Kaiser³

et al. 2022

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Objective: This study examines gender and socioeconomic inequalities in parental psychological wellbeing (parenting stress and psychological distress) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Background: The dramatic shift of childcare and schooling responsibility from formal institutions to private households during the pandemic has put families under enormous stress and raised concerns about caregivers' health and wellbeing. Despite the overwhelming media attention to families’ wellbeing, to date limited research has examined parenting stress and parental psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in Germany. Method: We analyzed four waves of panel data (N= 1,771) from an opt-in online survey, which was conducted between March 2020 and April 2021. Multivariable OLS regressions were used to estimate variations in the pandemic's effects on parenting stress and psychological distress by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Results: Overall, levels of parenting stress and psychological distress increased during the pandemic. During the first and third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, mothers, parents with children younger than 11 years, parents with two or more children, parents working from home as well as parents with financial insecurity experienced higher parenting stress than other sociodemographic groups. Moreover, women, respondents with lower incomes, single parents, and parents with younger children experienced higher levels of psychological distress than other groups. Conclusion: Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in parents' psychological wellbeing increased among the study participants during the pandemic.

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Section: Work-family Interface and Parents' Psychological Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Li¹,

Bünning²,

Kaiser³

et al. 2022

JFamRes

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“…In the perception of work stress, Karasek emphasised the role of social interactions and thus the form of direct relationships with others. Research by [ 61 ] suggests that the relationship with the supervisor plays the dominant role. Superiors’ support influences work attitudes and organisational commitment [ 62 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remote, Hybrid, and On-Site Work during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and the Consequences for Stress and Work Engagement

Wontorczyk

Rożnowski

2022

IJERPH

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With the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted economies, businesses, and individual activities, it is important to examine how different forms of work affect employee behaviour. This study applies work engagement (the key construct in organisational psychology) as the dependent variable and considers its determinants in the form of stress factors and attitudes toward remote work. A cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 544 (Female = 58.5%) workers were surveyed: remote (n = 144), hybrid (n = 142), and on-site (n = 258). The selection for the study was purposive. Standardised survey questionnaires were used in the study: UWES-9, Stress Management Standards, and Attitudes toward Remote Work. The obtained results indicate that there were no significant differences between groups in terms of the intensity of work engagement, but work engagement was explained by other variables that are different in each of the studied groups. Relationships and use of social media were the most important factors among remote workers. For on-site workers, the most important factors were control and role definition. For practitioners, the results indicate which aspects of work should be considered in order to maintain high levels of work engagement when employees are transferring to other forms of work.

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“…In line with this, work-family conflict was linked to different dimensions of parenting. Higher work-family conflict was associated with more irritable, harsh, or permissive parenting styles (Cooklin et al, 2015(Cooklin et al, , 2016Dinh et al, 2017;Leach et al, 2021;Matejević & Đorđević, 2019;Strazdins et al, 2013;Vahedi et al, 2019;Verweij et al, 2021;Yang & Kim, 2021), more parenting stress and overload (Frone et al, 1997;Hess & Pollmann-Schult, 2020;Hwang & Jung, 2020;Moreira et al, 2019;Si et al, 2020), lower parenting warmth and consistency, parental engagement, and parenting performance (Aycan & Eskin, 2005;Cooklin et al, 2016;Ferreira et al, 2018;Lau, 2010;Matias et al, 2017;Matias & Recharte, 2020;Moreira et al, 2019;van den Eynde et al, 2020), and less parental self-efficacy and perceived parenting confidence (Cinamon et al, 2007;Matias et al, 2017;. Regarding cross-parental effects, studies found that parents' WFC was positively related to partner's parental stress, which applied especially to mothers (Hart & Kelley, 2006;Matias et al, 2017).…”

Section: Child-parent Relationships and Parentingmentioning

confidence: 98%

The family side of work-family conflict: A literature review of antecedents and consequences

Reimann¹,

Schulz²,

Marx³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Objective: To review the empirical literature on family antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict. Background: Over the last decades, family living and working life have changed profoundly, affecting families’ needs and expectations towards reconciliation, as well as perceptions of work-family conflict. Previous reviews of the relevant literature in this flourishing field of research have predominantly focused on the work side of sources and consequences of these conflicts. A review of the family side of work-family conflict, however, is still missing. Method: The review of the existing literature followed the guidelines of “PRISMA – Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses”. 100 quantitative empirical studies were identified by relevant keywords, including research between 1988–2021. Results: The review of international and interdisciplinary empirical evidence remarkably shows the heterogeneity in research on family antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict in the directions of family-to-work and work-to-family. In addition, the findings of existing studies are inconsistent if not ambivalent. However, the review also demonstrates a growing body of literature that considers or even focuses on the family side of work-family conflict. Conclusion: The family plays an important role in the process of reconciling the private and the working life, as it is a source of conflict and a resource for dealing with conflicts at the same time.

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Unpartnered Mothers’ Work-Family Conflict and Parenting Stress: The Moderating Effects of Nonstandard Work Schedules

Cited by 16 publications

References 52 publications

Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Remote, Hybrid, and On-Site Work during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and the Consequences for Stress and Work Engagement

The family side of work-family conflict: A literature review of antecedents and consequences

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