Modern fathers' dilemma of work-family reconciliation. Findings from the German Youth Institute Survey AID:A II

Abstract: Objective: This study investigated how work and family demands and resources relate to fathers’ perceived work-family conflicts. Background: Increasing expectations for family involvement and the lingering centrality of employment in the male life course pose challenges for fathers to combine different life domains. However, most studies on work-family interface continue to focus on mothers and examine work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflicts separately. Method: First, we used cluster analysis to identify a typology of four groups, each with different manifestations of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. We then analyzed the relationship between fathers’ group membership in this typology and a number of relevant work and family demands and resources using multinomial logistic regression on a sample of 5,226 German nuclear families with at least one child under 18. Results: Our findings revealed that the greatest proportion of fathers (38.2%) reported being prima.... https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/792

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Modern fathers' dilemma of work-family reconciliation. Findings from the German Youth Institute Survey AID:A II ; volume:35 ; year:2023 ; Journal of family research ; 35 (2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Li, Xuan ; Zerle-Elsässer, Claudia

Further information

• DOI: 10.20377/jfr-792-700
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023091509501335640295
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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