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Influence of Border-Keepers’ Support on Work-Family Enrichment of Preschool Teachers in China: The Mediating Role of Work-Family Boundary Flexibility

Qian Peng; Chongyan Lian; Limin Zhang

Originally published 2022-02-09 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752836 ↗

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Working-family evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

Relevant to decisions about agreements that involve both workplace and household boundary-keepers; the original evidence concerns 504 preschool teachers in Guangdong Province, China.

Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

Which boundaries need support from work, and which from family?

This reading brings organizational and family border-keepers and two directions of enrichment into the collaboration pathway. The cross-sectional preschool-teacher survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.

Study context

504 preschool teachers in Guangdong Province, China

Age / stage: Working adults; not an assessment of pupil outcomes

Read with three questions

  1. How did the researchers define and assess organizational support, family support and boundary flexibility?
  2. What does the study design allow us to conclude about different significant and nonsignificant enrichment pathways?
  3. What would need to be checked before adopting agreements that involve both workplace and household boundary-keepers?

Keep the limits in view

Observational mediation cannot establish causes; work-boundary flexibility did not mediate the organizational-support pathway as hypothesized.

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Qian Peng; Chongyan Lian; Limin Zhang (2022). Influence of Border-Keepers’ Support on Work-Family Enrichment of Preschool Teachers in China: The Mediating Role of Work-Family Boundary Flexibility Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752836

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