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How Family, Work, and Community Resources Affect Family to Work Conflict and Facilitation of Employed Mothers

가족, 일, 지역사회의 자원과 유자녀 취업 여성이 경험하는 가족에서 일로의 갈등과 촉진

  • Kim, Soyoung (Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Seoul National University)
  • 김소영 (서울대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2017.10.20
  • Accepted : 2018.01.04
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

This study examined how the resources from work, family and community lowered family-to-work conflict (FWC) and enhanced family-to-work facilitation (FWF) of employed women with a child younger than 18 years old in order to provide empirical support for the Korean government's effort to create a family-friendly community as a way to help employed mothers balance work and family life. Information from 608 employed mothers living in 45 different communities were extracted from the 4th-wave of the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families in 2012, while community resources indicators were selected from the 2012 database of the Korean Statistical Information Service. Findings from the HLM analysis were as follows. First, there were significant variation in FWC and FWF among employed mothers depending on the communities they resided in. Second, work satisfaction, representative of work resource, relieved FWC and enhanced FWF, but spousal support, which represents family resource, affected neither FWC nor FWF. Third, community resources, as represented by family-friendly environment and frequent volunteering by community residents, lowered FWC but failed to enhance FWF. Lastly, family-friendly community resources served to mitigate the negative relationship between work satisfaction and FWC. This study is meaningful in that it provided empirical evidence for the contribution of community resources to work-family balance of employed mothers.

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