Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The impact of family support on depression among primary and secondary school teachers in China: the serial mediating roles of subjective time pressure and work-family conflict
Originally published 2025-11-19 · BMC Psychology
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s40359-025-03543-w ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about teacher support that recognizes pressure at work and at home; the original evidence concerns 3159 primary and secondary school teachers in China.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Who supports the people expected to support everyone else's children?
This reading brings family support, subjective time pressure and teachers' depressive symptoms into the kindness pathway. The cross-sectional teacher survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
3159 primary and secondary school teachers in China
Age / stage: Working adults, mean age 40.43
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess family support, time pressure and work-family conflict?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the proposed serial mediation and self-reported depressive symptoms?
- What would need to be checked before adopting teacher support that recognizes pressure at work and at home?
Keep the limits in view
Convenience sampling and cross-sectional mediation cannot show that adding family support treats depression; screening measures are not diagnoses.
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Shuang Zhong; Jinyu Hu; Huachun Xu (2025). The impact of family support on depression among primary and secondary school teachers in China: the serial mediating roles of subjective time pressure and work-family conflict BMC Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-03543-w
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