The Consequences of Work–Family Enrichment in Families on the Behaviour of Children

Annelies Van den Eynde and Dimitri Mortelmans
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Annelies Van den Eynde: Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Dimitri Mortelmans: Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Social Sciences, 2020, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: This study considers the spillover effect of work-family enrichment in parents on the behaviour of their children. Using a mediation model with parental well-being and parenting styles, the study unravels the associations between a positive perspective on work-life balance and the outcomes in a child’s live. Using 4012 parents from the data of the Australian LSAC (Growing up in Australia), the model shows that children’s behaviour is influenced by parents’ experience of work-family enrichment through parental well-being. Also, parenting performance functions as a mediator between work-family enrichment and the behaviour of the child. Parents show more stimulating parenting behaviour when they experience enrichment between work and their family.

Keywords: work-family enrichment; child; parenting; Australia; SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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