Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Work-Family Conflict and Mindful Parenting: The Mediating Role of Parental Psychopathology Symptoms and Parenting Stress in a Sample of Portuguese Employed Parents
Originally published 2019-03-22 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00635 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about family-supportive work conditions assessed together with parenting experiences; the original evidence concerns 335 employed Portuguese parents, 86.3% mothers.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What might help a parent arrive home with more patience and less strain?
This reading brings emotional distress and parenting stress alongside work-family conflict and mindful parenting into the kindness pathway. The cross-sectional employed-parent survey with path modeling offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
335 employed Portuguese parents, 86.3% mothers
Age / stage: Parents of children and adolescents aged 1-19
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess mindful-parenting dimensions, symptoms and parenting stress?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about associations across schedules, weekly hours and child-age groups?
- What would need to be checked before adopting family-supportive work conditions assessed together with parenting experiences?
Keep the limits in view
Simultaneous self-reports and a predominantly maternal sample cannot establish causal mental-health or parenting pathways; mindfulness was measured rather than tested as a treatment.
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Helena Moreira; Ana Fonseca; Brígida Caiado; Maria Cristina Canavarro (2019). Work-Family Conflict and Mindful Parenting: The Mediating Role of Parental Psychopathology Symptoms and Parenting Stress in a Sample of Portuguese Employed Parents Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00635
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