Social Relations of Working Mothers in The WorkFamily Conflict Within Indigenous Psychology Approaches

Abstract

This study aims to explore social relations in the family from the perspective of working mothers who experience work-family conflict based on an indigenous psychology approach. This research was conducted in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. The characteristics of the research subjects are wives who identify themselves as Javanese who have children under 12 years who live with their husbands and work as professionals. Research data collection used open-ended questionnaire instruments given to 240 research subjects. The data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis techniques to obtain a picture of social relations in the family from the perspective of working mothers who experienced work-family conflicts. The research findings show that some important aspects are expected to exist in a family according to the working wives. An important point that gets the most responses is mutual understanding, receive mutual advantages / disadvantages, mutually open, communication, mutual trust, help each other, mutual respect, love each other, mutual sharing. Good relations that are established in the family also determine whether a work-family conflict experienced by working mothers will be resolved or not. The results of this study will be used as a basis for developing measurement tools for social relations in families of working mothers who experience work-family conflicts.