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Work–Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship Between Childbearing and Subjective Well-Being
Abstract Many empirical studies find that parents are not as happy as non-parents or that parenthood exerts a negative effect on subjective well-being (SWB). We add to these findings by arguing that there is a key moderating factor that has been overlooked in previous research, i.e. the level of work–family conflict. We hypothesize that the birth of a child means an increase in the level of work–family tension, which may be substantial for some parents and relatively weak for others. To outline such an approach, we estimate fixed-effects models using panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey. We find that childbearing negatively affects SWB only when parents, mothers in particular, face a substantial work–family conflict, providing thus support for our hypothesis.
Work–Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship Between Childbearing and Subjective Well-Being
Abstract Many empirical studies find that parents are not as happy as non-parents or that parenthood exerts a negative effect on subjective well-being (SWB). We add to these findings by arguing that there is a key moderating factor that has been overlooked in previous research, i.e. the level of work–family conflict. We hypothesize that the birth of a child means an increase in the level of work–family tension, which may be substantial for some parents and relatively weak for others. To outline such an approach, we estimate fixed-effects models using panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey. We find that childbearing negatively affects SWB only when parents, mothers in particular, face a substantial work–family conflict, providing thus support for our hypothesis.
Work–Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship Between Childbearing and Subjective Well-Being
Matysiak, Anna (author) / Mencarini, Letizia (author) / Vignoli, Daniele (author)
2016
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Welt , Demographie , Theorie , EU-Staaten
BKL:
74.80
Demographie
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