Association of Work-Family Conflict With Depression, Parenting Behaviors, and Socio-Behavioral Development of Children

This study investigated the associations of work-family conflict with psychological well-being, parenting behaviors, and socio-emotional development children aged between 2 6 (M = 4.14, SD 1.30) their working mothers. The sample was constructed a random sampling method from Turkey, nationally representative 700 age mothers ranged 20 to 49 34.02, 5.46). data based on maternal reports. collected through Organizational Support Scale, Work-Family Conflict Parenting Questionnaire, Temperament Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory, Adaptive Social Checklist, Brief Symptoms Multidimensional Scale Perceived Support, Guilt Scale. results showed that (i) who reported higher levels guilt due lower social support experienced conflict; (ii) increased depression level negative behaviors in while decreased positive social-behavioral children, (iii) had buffering role decreasing effects is first conducted Turkey investigate an extensive ecology mothers’ children’s development. need for supporting policies ameliorate conditions labor divisions were emphasized by results. Keywords: Work-family conflict, parenting, support, socio-behavioral