title: Mothers' work-family conflict and enrichment: associations with parenting quality and couple relationship.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Employment participation of mothers of young children has steadily increased in developed nations. Combining work and family roles can create conflicts with family life, but can also bring enrichment. Work-family conflict and enrichment experienced by mothers may also impact children's home environments via parenting behaviour and the couple relationship, particularly in the early years of parenting when the care demands for young children is high.
  
  
  METHODS
  In order to examine these associations, while adjusting for a wide range of known covariates of parenting and relationship quality, regression models using survey data from 2151 working mothers of 4- to 5-year-old children are reported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results provided partial support for the predicted independent relationships between work-family conflict, enrichment and indicators of the quality of parenting and the couple relationship.
authors.affiliation: Parenting Research Centre, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Cooklin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Westrupp
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Strazdins
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giallo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Nicholson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D054541:Family Conflict; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012923:Social Class; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: maternal employment; parenting; work-family conflict; work-family gains; work-family strains