Liang Jing, Chen Zongping
Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China.
PLoS One. 2025 Mar 18;20(3):e0319675. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319675. eCollection 2025.
In today's fast-paced society, balancing work and family has become a key challenge affecting individual well-being, particularly for working parents. The conflict between these roles not only impacts personal mental health but also strains family dynamics, especially the parent‒child relationship. The main objective of this study is to explore the impact of work‒family conflict on the parent‒child relationship, with a focus on the mediating role of parenting burnout and the moderating role of self-compassion. The findings of a sample of 818 working parents revealed that work-family conflict negatively affects parent-child relationships and increases parenting burnout, thus further damaging these relationships. However, self-compassion significantly mitigates these negative effects, reducing the risk of parenting burnout. This study highlights the importance of fostering self-compassion as a potential intervention to protect the parent‒child relationship in the context of the work‒family relationship.
在当今快节奏的社会中，平衡工作和家庭已成为影响个人幸福的关键挑战，对于有工作的父母来说尤为如此。这些角色之间的冲突不仅影响个人心理健康，还会使家庭关系紧张，尤其是亲子关系。本研究的主要目的是探讨工作-家庭冲突对亲子关系的影响，重点关注育儿倦怠的中介作用和自我同情的调节作用。对818名有工作的父母进行抽样调查的结果显示，工作-家庭冲突对亲子关系有负面影响，并会加剧育儿倦怠，从而进一步损害这些关系。然而，自我同情能显著减轻这些负面影响，降低育儿倦怠的风险。本研究强调了培养自我同情作为一种潜在干预措施在工作-家庭关系背景下保护亲子关系的重要性。
