Work and Happiness: How Does Employment Impact Family Life?
"Exploring the complexities of balancing work and family for a better quality of life. Female labor changes impacts, Parental roles and child relationships."
The increasing number of women in the labor force has caused researchers to study how work affects family dynamics. General studies have approached this topic from a 'conflict perspective,' implying that work absorbs time, energy, and attention that are needed to foster healthy parent-child relations and good parenting practices. Research has explored a variety of family outcomes, such as child well-being, marital relationship quality, and parenting practices.
This article will explore the links between paid work and quality in parent-child relationships. It examines how paid labor can be harmful to families and parent-child relations, and it address what effects they might have and the mediating role of parent temporal involvement.
To better analyze impacts, this article will discuss what has been discovered in existing research. Two theoretical viewpoints about work-family impacts are organized along theoretical grounds: the work-stress and work-socialization perspectives.
The Impact of Work-Stress, and Work-Socialization Perspectives
Two theoretical perspectives are organized and analyzed in this section. The work-stress perspective argues that paid work negatively affects family life since work stressors drain parent resouces. But, Empirical results have shown that higher work demands are associated with more parent role overload, withdrawal, parent-adolescent conflict, and reduced parenting behavior and acceptance.
The Mediating Role of Temporal Involvement
Temporal involvement is what happens both inside and outside parental time. Research established that paid work affects time spent. It is likely that parents with heavy workloads face lower quality relationships with children due to time. This means restrictions of spending time are exactly why their work lowers child relation quality. Some also demonstrated that the quality of time matters.