Heeweon Lee
Yonsei University, South KoreaTitle: The effect of mother’s work-family gains on children’s communication: Dual mediating effects by mother’s permissive parenting practices and children’s media dependency
Abstract
Recently, mothers who manage their job and nurture their children are increasing. This study aimed to identify the effect of mother’s work-family gains on their school-aged children’s communication skills, which is dual-mediated by mother’s permissive parenting practices and children’s media dependency, especially personal computers and smartphones.
This study used data of the 10th version of Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC), conducted in 2017. The data was collected from 707 children (male: 364, female: 343) and their working mothers. The average age of subject children was 9.4yrs (SD=1.40). Descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis and bootstrapping were conducted with SPSS 27.0, and the Process Macro program version 4.2 to examine the hypothesized dual mediation model of variables.
The results of this study were as follows. First, mother’s work-family gains had negative effect on children’s communication skills (β= .21, p<.001). Second, mother’s work-family gains had decreased mother’s permissive parenting practices (β= -.24, p< .001) and children’s media dependency (β= -.11, p<.01), but increased children’s communication skills (β= .12, p<.001). Therefore, the results showed partial mediation effect exists on the hypothesized model. Lastly, dual mediation effect of mother’s permissive parenting practices and children’s media dependency on relationship between mother’s work-family gains and children’s communication skills had verified significant indirect effects with 95% confidence interval.
These findings verified the important role of the effects of mother’s work-family gains on children’s communication skills through mother’s permissive parenting practices and children’s media dependency. Also, these findings emphasized the importance of focusing on work-family gains of working mothers rather than work-family conflicts. Moreover, this study provides academic basis for examining the importance of mother’s work-family gains on school-aged children and verified the importance of mother’s work-family gains is not limited for the development of infants or young children.
Biography
Heeweon Lee has completed her bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University, South Korea. Then, she started master and doctoral integrated course at Yonsei University for Child & Family Studies. Now, she is on her doctoral degree course. She majors in child development and human life & innovation design.
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