Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The role of gender, work family conflict, and gender role attitudes in daily parental wellbeing
Originally published 2026-06-04 · Scientific Reports
Nature Publishing Group · DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-48583-3 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about conversations about fair expectations at work and at home; the original evidence concerns 68 parents, 75% women, contributing 1352 daily wellbeing observations.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Whose expectations shape the way our working day feels?
This reading brings gender-role attitudes, directional work-family conflict and fluctuations in parents' daily wellbeing into the respect pathway. The one-week intensive longitudinal parent diary study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
68 parents, 75% women, contributing 1352 daily wellbeing observations
Age / stage: Adults, mean age 37.6; children's ages not specified in the abstract
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-family conflict and daily cognitive wellbeing?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about gender-role attitudes and within-person versus between-person differences?
- What would need to be checked before adopting conversations about fair expectations at work and at home?
Keep the limits in view
The small gender-imbalanced volunteer sample and one-week period limit generalization; diary associations do not establish effects of changing gender norms.
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Laura Altweck; Silke Schmidt; Samuel Tomczyk (2026). The role of gender, work family conflict, and gender role attitudes in daily parental wellbeing Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48583-3
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