초록/요약

This study focused on the work-parenting conflict of employed mothers who have early school-age children and its relationship with family companionship. Moderating effects of mothers’ depression, co-parenting and social support on the relationship were evaluated. Using data from the eighth wave of the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC), a total of 632 employed mothers who had children in the first grade of elementary school were examined. The moderating roles of employed mothers’ depression, co-parenting, and social support in the relationship between work-parenting conflict and family companionship were examined through hierarchical regression analysis and Model 1 of PROCESS Macro in the SPSS program. Depression and co-parenting showed significant moderating effects. Specifically, the negative effect of work-parenting conflict on family companionship was significant when the score of employed mothers’ depression was higher than the mean value and the score of co-parenting was lower than the mean value. The moderating effect of social support in the relationship between work-family and family companionship was not significant. With the limited number of empirical studies that have explored how the difficulties of balancing work and parenting may influence family functioning, this study demonstrates the need to consider the effect of mothers’ work-parenting conflict with careful consideration of mothers’ psychological characteristics and the quality of co-parenting.