İş-aile çatışması ve çocuklarda içselleştirme ve dışsallaştırma davranışlarının ilişkisi: Ebeveyn davranışlarının rolü

The current research as the first scientific study examines whether work-family conflict is related to externalizing and internalizing problems of preschool children through maternal responsiveness and negative control. In literature, work-family conflict is defined as a form of inter-role conflict that arises due to incompatibility of role expectations in work and family domains. The sample was composed of 98 Turkish employed mothers with children from the ages of 3-6 years. Responsiveness and negative control were assessed not only by mothers? self-report but also by observational methods. This is an important methodological strength of the study. Data from mothers? self-report and observations were separately analyzed by path analyses. The findings of this study add to the previous literature by showing, first, that WFC of parents appears to be a detrimental experience for children. Second, despite high WFC, mothers? responsive parenting behavior may prevent children from developing externalizing problems. Third, mothers who experience WFC were perceived as exhibiting high negative control over children?s behavior. Fourth, maternal responsiveness and control cannot explain the association between WFC and internalizing problems. These results partially support the hypotheses of the current study that WFC is associated with externalizing and internalizing problems of preschool children by its relation to parenting behaviors.