{"title":"When women's work benefits family: The impact of mothers' work-family enrichment on parenting guilt.","authors":"Tingting Song, Chao Pan, Jirui Wang, Mengge Li","doi":"10.1080/07399332.2025.2569579","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, scholars have examined the detrimental impact of parenting guilt, yet little is known about its mechanisms in Chinese. Based on family system theory, this study explores the relationship between work-family enrichment and parenting guilt, with parenting sense of competence as mediating variable and fathers' co-parenting as moderating variable. We distributed questionnaires to 476 mother and collected data at three time points. We found that work-family enrichment was negatively associated with parenting guilt, and the relationship was mediated by parenting sense of competence. Fathers' co-parenting moderated the relationship between work-family enrichment and parenting guilt. These findings further our understanding of parenting guilt in Chinese culture, as well as suggest the importance of work-family enrichment and fathers' co-parenting for maternal guilt.</p>","PeriodicalId":47836,"journal":{"name":"Health Care for Women International","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health Care for Women International","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2025.2569579","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Recently, scholars have examined the detrimental impact of parenting guilt, yet little is known about its mechanisms in Chinese. Based on family system theory, this study explores the relationship between work-family enrichment and parenting guilt, with parenting sense of competence as mediating variable and fathers' co-parenting as moderating variable. We distributed questionnaires to 476 mother and collected data at three time points. We found that work-family enrichment was negatively associated with parenting guilt, and the relationship was mediated by parenting sense of competence. Fathers' co-parenting moderated the relationship between work-family enrichment and parenting guilt. These findings further our understanding of parenting guilt in Chinese culture, as well as suggest the importance of work-family enrichment and fathers' co-parenting for maternal guilt.
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Health Care for Women International is a critically acclaimed, international publication that provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to health care and related topics that concern women around the globe. Published twelve times a year, Health Care for Women International includes the newest research, theories, and issues in the fields of public health, social science, health care practice, and health care policy. Scholars and practitioners address topics such as cultural differences, alternative lifestyles, domestic violence, public health issues associated with the aging of the population, maternal morbidity and mortality, infectious diseases, and a host of other gender-based ethical issues. The editor also encourages discussion topics, inviting readers to comment on articles that focus on specific aspects of health issue for women.
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