The longitudinal relationship between work-to-family conflict and child internalizing behaviors: Antecedents, mediators, moderators in a nationwide study

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2025-8-26

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Babaoğlu, Gözde

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The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate the longitudinal relationship between parents’ work-to-family conflict and child internalizing behaviors using data from a nationwide Turkish sample. Study 1 examined the antecedents of employed parents’ work-to-family conflict at Time 1. Following, Study 2 examined the indirect association between parents’ work-to-family conflict at Time 1 and children’s internalizing behaviors at Time 2 in grades 1 to 11 for each parent. The mediating role of perceived parental rejection and the moderator roles of marital conflict and social supports were investigated. Antecedents of work-to-family conflict was examined with hierarchical multiple regression analyses. Several demographic, work, and non-work-related antecedents were related to parents’ levels of work-to-family conflict. To examine the link between work-to-family conflict and child internalizing behaviors, structural equational modeling was performed. High levels of marital conflict, family, and friend social support of fathers were significant, but high levels of significant other social support showed a trend for fathers. As fathers’ marital conflict and all types of social supports increased, the indirect effect became stronger. Increases in fathers’ work-to-family conflict at Time 1 were associated with increases in child internalizing behaviors over time, mediated by increases in perceived parental rejection at Time 1. For mothers, the high levels of marital conflict and significant other social support showed a trend, and the indirect effect became weakened. Increases in mothers’ work-to-family conflict at Time 1 were associated with decreases in child internalizing behaviors over time, mediated by decreases in perceived parental rejection at Time 1.

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Work-to-family conflict, Parental rejection, Social support, Marital conflict, Internalizing problems

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115530

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis