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Structural Relationships among Dual-Earner Parents' Work-Family Conflict, Coparenting Quality, Children's Executive Function Difficulties, and School Adjustment: An Application of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

부모의 일-가정 양립 갈등과 공동양육의 질, 아동의 집행기능 곤란 및 학교적응 간의 구조적 관계: 자기-상대방 상호의존모형 적용

  • Yangmi, Lim (Department of Home Economics Education, Jeonju University)
  • Received : 2022.07.20
  • Accepted : 2022.10.06
  • Published : 2022.11.30
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Abstract

The present study identified the effects of parents' work-family conflict on their and partners' co-parenting quality, as well as the mediating roles of co-parenting quality and children's executive function difficulties in linking parents' work-family conflict to their children's school adjustment. This study used data from 387 dual-earner parents and their first-grade elementary school children, who participated in the Panel Study on Korean Children. An actor-partner interdependence and mediation model analysis using structural equation modeling revealed the following findings: first, the actor and partner effects of parents' work-family conflict on co-parenting quality were significant for both fathers and mothers. Second, the effect of the fathers' work-family conflict on their co-parenting quality was found to be greater than that of the mothers' work-family conflict on the fathers' co-parenting quality. Third, fathers' and mothers' work-family conflict, respectively, exerted an indirect effect on their children's school adjustment through the serial mediation by the mothers' co-parenting quality and children's executive function difficulties, whereas the direct effects of fathers' and mothers' work-family conflict on children's school adjustment were not supported. Finally, this study suggests that co-parenting quality and children's executive function should be considered to facilitate children's school adjustment in the parent education of dual-earner families with first-grade elementary school children, and that continuous policy efforts for dual-earner parents' work-family balance are needed.

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