Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Family health as a mediator between work–family conflict and depression in working parents: a cross-sectional study
Originally published 2026-05-26 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1808855 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about support that considers family resources as well as individual strain; the original evidence concerns 5068 Chinese working parents in the 2021 Psychology and Behavior Investigation of Chinese Residents.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What does a family's shared health add to the picture of work stress?
This reading brings family health as a modest statistical pathway linking conflict and depressive symptoms into the kindness pathway. The cross-sectional working-parent secondary analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
5068 Chinese working parents in the 2021 Psychology and Behavior Investigation of Chinese Residents
Age / stage: Working parents; younger and older adult subgroups considered
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-family conflict, family health and depressive-symptom screening?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the size of the modeled family-health pathway?
- What would need to be checked before adopting support that considers family resources as well as individual strain?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional mediation cannot establish a modifiable causal mechanism; screening symptoms are not clinical diagnoses and the indirect pathway was modest.
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Min Yang; Chaochan Su; Meng Yang; Qiuxia Huang (2026). Family health as a mediator between work–family conflict and depression in working parents: a cross-sectional study Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1808855
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