Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Work-Family Conflict, Enrichment, and Adolescent Academic Adjustment in Dual-Earner Family
Originally published 2021-12-03 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712954 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about family-school conversations that include parents' work context; the original evidence concerns 2136 dual-earner families in China, including parents and adolescents.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
How might pressures at work shape the expectations a child hears at home?
This reading brings parental work-family experiences, educational expectations and adolescent academic adjustment into the collaboration pathway. The cross-sectional parent-adolescent family study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2136 dual-earner families in China, including parents and adolescents
Age / stage: Adolescents aged 11.6-19.3 and their parents
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess parents' and adolescents' reports of educational expectations?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about maternal and paternal pathways in actor-partner models?
- What would need to be checked before adopting family-school conversations that include parents' work context?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional family models cannot establish causal spillover or rank mothers' and fathers' importance; measured academic adjustment is context-specific.
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Xiaoli Wang; Lijin Zhang; Xiujuan Wu; Min Zhao (2021). Work-Family Conflict, Enrichment, and Adolescent Academic Adjustment in Dual-Earner Family Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712954
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