Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The Relationship Between Work–Family Conflict and Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Originally published 2026-03-07 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs16030386 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about workplace support that protects time for healthy daily routines; the original evidence concerns 33 articles linking work-family conflict and health behaviors.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Which everyday health routines come under pressure when work and family collide?
This reading brings sleep, diet, smoking and alcohol in the work-family conflict literature into the kindness pathway. The systematic review and meta-analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
33 articles linking work-family conflict and health behaviors
Age / stage: Adult-worker evidence; not a child study
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess the five health-behavior domains in the review?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about effect sizes, heterogeneity and the limits of pooled associations?
- What would need to be checked before adopting workplace support that protects time for healthy daily routines?
Keep the limits in view
Pooled associations are not proof of causation or individualized health advice; study designs and measurement differ across the included behaviors.
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Original authorship, publication date, journal and DOI are preserved. This issue’s TRICK placement and reading questions are editorial additions, not claims made by the original authors.
Xiyu Peng; Ze Chen; Yu Li; Shuai Yuan; Jieling Chen (2026). The Relationship Between Work–Family Conflict and Health Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16030386
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