Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Guilt in the Context of Work-Family Conflict, Partner Support, and Life Satisfaction Among Health Professionals
Originally published 2025-08-28 · Healthcare
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/healthcare13172145 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about a partner conversation about care responsibilities and work demands; the original evidence concerns health professionals reporting work-family guilt and partner involvement.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Can we share responsibility without making guilt the family organizer?
This reading brings domain-specific guilt, work-family conflict and partner involvement in child-rearing into the collaboration pathway. The cross-sectional health-professional survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
Health professionals reporting work-family guilt and partner involvement
Age / stage: Working adults; partner involvement in child-rearing considered
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess guilt proneness versus work-family guilt?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about directional conflict, schedules and life satisfaction?
- What would need to be checked before adopting a partner conversation about care responsibilities and work demands?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional correlations do not show that guilt causes dissatisfaction or that one family arrangement will resolve conflict.
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Maria-Manuela Apostol; Magdalena Iorga; Mariana Rotariu (2025). Guilt in the Context of Work-Family Conflict, Partner Support, and Life Satisfaction Among Health Professionals Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13172145
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