The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of social support perceived by working mothers with preschool children, their job satisfaction level and role conflicts on parenting. The subjects were working mothers who had preschool children in ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of social support perceived by working mothers with preschool children, their job satisfaction level and role conflicts on parenting. The subjects were working mothers who had preschool children in Seoul and its vicinities.
The instrument used to assess the extent of social support perceived by the mothers was Sin Suk-jae's scale(1997). mothers job satisfaction was measured with Hwang Hyeon-ju(1993)'s inventory which was modified from Lee Jei-young(1988)'s Job Satisfaction Scale and Kalleberg(1977)'s Job Satisfaction Scale. Jeon Ji-hyeon (2004)'s inventory was utilized to assess mothers role conflicts. Park Ju-hee(2001)'s inventory was employed to evaluate mothers parenting.
The data were analyzed with SPSS WIN 13.0 program. The correlation analyses and multiple regression analyses were performed. The findings were as follows:
First, the working mothers with preschoolers/who were given more social support/had a stronger tendency to bring up their young children in a paternal/encouraging and boundary-setting manner. However over-protective/permissive style and rejective/laissez-faire style weren't prevailing among those mothers.
Second, the working mothers with preschoolers who found their job more satisfactory/had a stronger tendency/to raise their children in a paternal/encouraging and boundary-setting way. However overprotective/permissive and rejective/laissez-faire styles weren't common among those mothers.
Third, the working mothers with preschoolers who suffered more role conflicts raised their children in a more overprotective/permissive and rejective/laissez-faire manner.
Fourth, the permissive/encouraging style was affected by social support and job satisfaction level/and the boundary-setting parenting social support. The overprotective/permissive parenting was affected by social support and role conflicts. The rejective/laissez-faire parenting was influenced by role conflict.
The findings indicated that social support was one of the most important factors affecting the quality of parenting in working mothers.