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The Effects of Work-family Balance Policies on Working Mothers' Job Satisfaction (직장 내 가족친화제도가 취업모의 직업만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yim, Joong-Kyung;Koh, Sun-Kang
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.97-118
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to provide background information to help develop family-friendly policies which aid in the ability for employees to balance family and work, and to increase the effectiveness and feasibility of these policies at work sites. We surveyed the performance and usage of work-family balance policies among working mothers with young children. We also examined the factors influencing the job satisfaction of working mothers. The study sample consisted of 237 working mothers with young children. We found that family economic status, working mother's experience of family leave or maternity leave, and easiness of policy use are important factors in a working mother's job satisfaction. Especially when individual and job characteristics are controlled, the most influential factor on working mothers' job satisfaction was the experience of family leave or maternity leave. In addition, the easiness of family-friendly policy use was a significant factor in working mothers' job-satisfaction.

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The Relationships between Work-Family Conflict, Marital Satisfaction and Depression of Working Mother: The Moderated Mediation Effect of Democratic Parenting of Father (워킹맘의 일-가족 갈등이 우울에 미치는 영향: 남편의 민주적 자녀 양육으로 조절된 결혼 만족도의 매개 효과)

  • Jo, Seolae;Chong, Young-sook
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.435-456
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the role of democratic patenting behavior of father in the relations of work-family conflict, marital satisfaction and depression of working mother who has child in 1st grade in elementary school. This study used data from 2015 Panel Study on Korean Children. The subjects are 610 working mothers and their spouses who completed the survey included the scales of work-family conflicts, democratic parenting behavior, marital satisfaction, and depression. The main results are followed. First, marital satisfaction of mother mediated the relationship between work-family conflict and depression. Second, the interaction of work-family conflict of mother and democratic parenting behavior of father had an effect on marital satisfaction of mother. Third, the moderated mediation effect of democratic parenting behavior of father on the association between work-life conflict, marital satisfaction and depression of mother. These findings suggested democratic parenting behavior of father as protective factor concerning in work-family conflict of working mother. These findings suggest that enhancing marital satisfaction and quality of parenting of father are important to protect depression of working mother who experienced the work-family conflict.

The Casual Relationship among the Father's Participation in Childcare, Job Satisfaction, Parenting Stress, and Marital Satisfaction of Working Mother (취업모의 직무만족도, 양육스트레스, 결혼만족도, 배우자 양육참여의 관계)

  • Keum, Jiheon;Kim, Dongsim
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.141-150
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of the present study was to determine the structural relationship among the father's participation in childcare, parenting stress, marital satisfaction, and the job satisfaction of working mothers. This study is based on the 2011 Panel Study on Korean Children, a large, population-based study conducted by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education. The participants were 431 working mothers. To ensure the reliability and validity of the questions, descriptive statistics of the frequency, ratio, average, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis were obtained using SPSS 21.0. Exploratory factor, variables correlation, and reliability analysis were also performed. The structural analysis using AMOS 20.0 in the bootstrapping method was conducted to perform a path analysis among the variables and to assess the suitability of the model. A hypothetical model was proposed, which was composed of a father's participation in childcare as an exogenous variable and parenting stress, marital satisfaction, and job satisfaction of a working mother as the endogenous variables. The results of this study are as follows: First, a father's participation in childcare and the parenting stress and marital satisfaction of a working mother affect the job satisfaction of the mother. The most influential factor is marital satisfaction. Second, marital satisfaction has mediating effects between the father's participation in childcare and the parenting stress and job satisfaction of the working mother. Third, parenting stress does not affect job satisfaction.

A Study on Role Stress Experienced by Married Working-Mother Salesclerks (판매직 취업주부의 역할스트레스에 관한 연구)

  • 이정우;정진희
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of role stress perceived by employed housewives working in sales departments, and further, to devise coping strategies that can help reduce stress resulting from their multiple roles The sample of this study consisted of married women who were working in sales departments, who have at least one child, and who live in the greater Seoul metropolitan area. A total of 343 out of 450 originally distributed questionnaires were used for the analysis in this study. The findings of the study are: 1 The housewives in sales departments felt stress most severely in their role as a mother. Next were the roles as a wife, housewife, daughter, daughter-in-law, and working woman, in that order. 2. It appeared that age and the motive for employment affected the overall level of role stress among housewives. The two variables (age and the motive for employment) explained about 23% of the variance. The younger they were the higher was the level of role stress. Also, if they were working for an economic reason (to support the family), they tended to be more stressed out. The results of this study could be utilized as baseline data for policy-making, consultation, and development of educational programs for housewives working in sales departments, an area that has hardly been explored.

An Ecological Study on Working Mother's Parenting Stress (직장보육시설을 이용하는 취업모의 양육스트레스에 관한 생태학적 연구 -만 6세 이하 자녀를 둔 전문직, 사무직 및 생산직 여성을 중심으로-)

  • 김리진;윤종희
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.38 no.12
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    • pp.47-58
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate working mothers'parenting stress. The study was approached from an ecological perspective. Data were collected from 185 mothers who were professionals, office or labor workers, and have their children enrolled at the day care center located at their workplace. All the subjects lived in Seoul. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The working mothers'parenting stress was found to be at a moderate level(Mean=2.30). 2. The hierarchical and stepwise regression analyses revealed that significant variables in explaining the parenting stress of working mothers were the degrees of attachment with the subject's mother($\beta$=-.24), age($\beta$=-.23), the degrees of flexibility in working conditions($\beta$=-.19), educational level($\beta$=.18), the degrees of husbands'participation in child care($\beta$=-.17), and the number of children ($\beta$=.16). These variables explained 17.2% of working mother's parenting stress. 3. It was found that the effect of microsystem variables on working mothers' parenting stress were greater than the combined effects of mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem variables.

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Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment: Mother's Internal Working Model of Relationships and Infant Attachment Patterns (애착의 세대간 전이 - 어머니의 내적 실행모델과 영아의 애착유형 -)

  • Jang, Mi Ja;Choi, Bok Hee
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.147-164
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) intergenerational transmission from mother's internal working model of relationships formed in her childhood and infant's attachment patterns and (2) the associations among maternal working models, maternal sensitivity, and infant attachment patterns. The subjects were twenty 12- to 20-month-old infants and their mothers. The Adult Attachment Interview (1996) was used to assess mother's internal work model of relationships. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Each dyad was videotaped in the modified Ainsworth Strange Situation(1978) and filmed for 3 minutes in the Questionaire Situation of Smith and Pederson (1988). Mothers were classified as autonomous(F), dismissing(Ds), preoccupied(E), or unresolved/disorganized(Ud). Infants were classified as secure(B), insecure-avoidant(A), or insecure-resistant(C). Exact A/B/C/D and Ds/F/E/Ud agreement was observed in 55% of the dyads. Maternal sensitivity was related to infant attachment patterns but not to maternal working models.

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Parental Satisfaction and Employment Characteristics of Working Mother (일하는 어머니의 취업특성에 따른 부모역할만족)

  • 양연숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.139-150
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was (1) to explore the difference in parental satisfaction regarding personal/family, work, and psychological variables of employment characteristics, and (2) to investigate the most effecting variables on the parental satisfaction. For this study, the working mother with children aged under 10 year were surveyed. The results of this study were as follow; (1) There were significant differences in the parental satisfaction according to work time, job preference, income, the difficulty of work life. However, working mother's personal and family variable were not found as the related variable. Psychological variables were correlated with parental satisfaction. (2) Maternal role efficiency, dual role conflict, flexibility of work, marriage year, income, psychological stress, expanded family, durations of occupation, spouse support significantly predicted parental satisfaction. Psychological variables were important in parental satisfaction of working mothers.

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A Phenomenological Study on the Experiences of Parenting Burden of Working Mother with Young Children in Korea (어린 아동을 둔 취업모의 양육부담감 경험에 대한 현상학적 연구)

  • Kim, Na Hyun;Lee, Eun Joo;Kwak, Su Young;Park, Mee Ra
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.188-200
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the essential structure of the lived experience of working mothers' parenting burden in Korea. Methods: Eight working mothers with young children were interviewed. The Colaizzi analysis of phenomenological research was applied. Results: Seven theme clusters were extracted: a life with constant conflict, sense of guilt, feeling anxious because of lack of information about education for their children, social stigma as a deficient mother, family relationship becoming distant, a life being exhausted, day to day struggle. Conclusion: These results provide an opportunity to have a better understanding of the experiences of working mothers related to parenting their young children. It would also serve as a medium for the formulation of appropriate nursing intervention relevant to burdens of parenthood.

Working Mothers' Perception and Demand on Child Care Policy and Institution Supporting the Working Mothers (취업모의 자녀양육지원제도에 대한 인식 및 요구)

  • Lee Young-Mi
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.23 no.6 s.78
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 2005
  • This study surveyed the perception and demand for the child care policy and child care service of working mothers with children under age 6. The subjects were 266 working mothers in Seoul and Kyoung-Gi Province. Data were collected with the questionnaire method and analyzed by spss-win program, including median, mode, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The result of this study can be summarized as follows. (1) The working mothers considered both parents have the responsibility on child care and strongly demanded the national support on child care. (2) The working mothers prefered own mother and relatives to child care center as a carer of infants and toddlers, but prefered child care center for children age 3-5. (3) The working mothers demanded the increase of finantial support for family and child care center. (4) The working mothers focused on 'the security and care Program' and focused next on 'diet and health care program' in child care service. (5) The working mothers did not nearly know about the accreditation system of child care centers. This results suggest that the national and social support for child care service is an essential part in promoting children's and the working mothers' welfare.

Psychological well being of children with working mother's depending on the type of after school care and parental attitude (취업모의 양육태도, 자녀의 방과 후 보호형태와 심리적 복지에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Sun-Young;Choi, Jung-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.711-721
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    • 2004
  • This study is about the influences of the type of after school care and the degree of mothers' affection and monitoring toward their children on the psychological well being of children with working mother. For this research 437 children attending an elementary school with working parent were chosen. The major finding were as follows: First, the results of the findings on whether there were differences in the psychological well being of these children depending on the form of after school care showed that there were significant differences between loneliness and self-perceives competence felt by children. Second, the results of the findings on whether there were differences in the psychological well being of these children depending on the mother's affection and monitoring showed that there were significant differences between loneliness and self-perceives competence felt by children. Third, Multiple regression analysis shows, no matter what type of care a child gets, a mother's affection is the most effective variable which influence toward a child's psychological well being.

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