Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The impact of work–family conflict on early childhood teachers’ occupational well-being: the chain mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting
Originally published 2025-01-08 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1513514 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about teacher participation in workload and task redesign; the original evidence concerns 1200 early-childhood teachers in Guangdong Province, China.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How much room do educators have to reshape a job that strains family life?
This reading brings psychological empowerment and job crafting alongside work-family conflict and teacher wellbeing into the independence pathway. The cross-sectional early-childhood teacher survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
1200 early-childhood teachers in Guangdong Province, China
Age / stage: Working adults; not a study of their pupils' outcomes
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess psychological empowerment, job crafting and conflict?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the proposed chain mediation versus causal intervention evidence?
- What would need to be checked before adopting teacher participation in workload and task redesign?
Keep the limits in view
Self-reported cross-sectional mediation cannot show that empowerment or job crafting reduces conflict; one region and profession limit transfer.
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Liqun Wang; Tianqi Qiao; Xinxin Wang; Chen Wang; Pingzhi Ye (2025). The impact of work–family conflict on early childhood teachers’ occupational well-being: the chain mediating role of psychological empowerment and job crafting Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1513514
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