Work-family conflict affects children’s emotional regulation via psychological availability

What is it about?

Work-family conflict links to children’s emotional regulation via psychological availability of both parents. Besides individual impacts we found that when one parent is feeling pressured to balance his/her work and family roles, this impacts the other parent' psychological availability, which in turn may hamper children's emotional regulation.

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Why is it important?

Our findings higlight a family systems perspective, establishing reciprocal links across couple members on the effects of multiple roles balance and parenting. A dearth of research has been devoted to the mechanisms by which work-family balance affects children and we help uncover this process.