Applied Research in Quality of Life最新文献

{"title":"Conflicts or Facilitation? Post-Pandemic Reflection on the Work-Family Balance of Family Caregivers Under the COVID-19 Pandemic in China","authors":"Haijing Dai,&nbsp;Ka Hei Leung,&nbsp;Longxing Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10479-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10479-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which profoundly changed workplace norms and care support, on family caregivers’ sense of work-family balance. Existing theoretical frameworks, including the conflict view of work and family, the “Shecession” framework, the role facilitation approach, and the couple equity argument, often depict contradictory mechanisms of the impacts of the pandemic on the sense of work-family balance of family caregivers. This study navigates the different frameworks in the contexts of the zero-COVID policies in China. Based on data from a national online survey of 1,190 Chinese citizens over the age of 18, we find that while crisis family caregivers who had to participate in family care during quarantines tended to employ the conflict view of work and family, the facilitative view better explains the feelings of all-time primary family caregivers. Both types of caregivers, however, report positive impacts of quarantines on family relationships and work-family balance. The findings challenge the prevailing assumption of undermined work-family balance and suffering family caregivers during the pandemic, and advocate for workplace, social, and policy changes in the “normal” time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1517 - 1534"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10479-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental Smartphone Addiction and Child Social Avoidance: the Moderated Parallel Mediation of Parent-Child Relationship","authors":"Jingjing Zhu,&nbsp;Jiayu Luo,&nbsp;Junyang Feng,&nbsp;Yan Li","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10477-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10477-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employing a moderated parallel mediation model, this study investigated the influence mechanism of parental smartphone addiction on children’s social avoidance among 1586 parent-child dyads (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> =51.19 months, <i>SD</i> = 13.49) in Shanghai, China. The results revealed that: (1) maternal smartphone addiction positively predicted children’s social avoidance; (2) mother-child closeness and mother-child conflict significantly mediated the relationship between maternal smartphone addiction and children’s social avoidance, accounting for 13.33% and 45% of the total effect, respectively; (3) mother-child conflict moderated the relationship between paternal smartphone addiction and children’s social avoidance, with the association being significant only when mother-child conflict was below 1.65 SD. Both mother-child conflict and mother-child closeness moderated the relationship between father-child closeness and children’s social avoidance, with the association being significant only when mother-child conflict was above 0.002 SD and mother-child closeness was below − 1.40 SD. These findings suggest that enhancing parent-child closeness and reducing parent-child conflict may buffer the adverse effects of parental smartphone addiction on children’s social avoidance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1493 - 1516"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10477-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Give me Support and Hope, and I Can Be Creative: Evidence for a Mediation Model from Five Countries","authors":"Chee-Seng Tan,&nbsp;Jonathan E. Ramsay,&nbsp;Sanju George,&nbsp;Argel Bondoc Masanda,&nbsp;Soon-Aun Tan,&nbsp;Jing Zhang,&nbsp;Siew-May Cheng,&nbsp;Mark A. Runco,&nbsp;Walton Wider","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10468-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10468-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social support has been found to facilitate creativity. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Guided by the broadened-and-build theory, this correlational study addressed the question of how perceived social support (PSS) influences self-rated creativity through the mediating role of hope. Study 1 included a community sample of 1204 individuals aged 18 to 64 from Australia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. Correlation analysis showed the three variables were positively correlated with each other across five countries. Moreover, mediation analysis indicated that PSS had an indirect relationship with creativity through hope when creative self-efficacy and age were controlled. Study 2 replicated these findings in a sample of 210 working adults in Malaysia. The consistency supports the robustness of the results across different age and cultural contexts. These findings confirm that social support and hope should be considered in creativity studies. Although further research would be useful, it appears that creativity could be improved with social support and hope. Altogether, policy, program development, and interventions aimed at fostering supportive communities may be able to enhance creativity by leveraging both social support and hope.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1469 - 1491"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10468-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Public Pension and Age Shape the Effects of Intergenerational Support Patterns on Older Adults’ Frailty: Evidence from China","authors":"Yinkai Zhang,&nbsp;Yu-Chih Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10473-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10473-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intergenerational support is an important social convoy for older adults’ well-being and health, but such links may vary by personal and situational characteristics. Guided by the convoy model of social relations, we examined whether and how patterns of intergenerational support predict frailty and the moderating effect of age and pension among older Chinese adults. Using 5,388 adults aged 60 and older from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011–2018), we conducted latent profile analysis to explore the patterns of support of older parents. Lagged regression models were used to examine the effects of these patterns on frailty and the moderating effects of public pension and age. Six patterns highlighting the provision and receipt of financial, emotional, and physical support were found. Older adults who were <i>financial reciprocal and physical under-benefiting exchangers</i> had lower levels of frailty than those who were <i>financial over-benefiting and physical under-benefiting exchangers</i>. Public pension and age differences in intergenerational support patterns were identified through simple slope analysis. <i>Financial receivers and physical providers</i>, as well as those who were <i>financial nonexchangers and physical under-benefiting exchangers</i> among urban pensioners, were significantly associated with lower levels of frailty. Additionally, <i>financial nonexchangers/reciprocal and physical under-benefiting exchangers</i> were significantly associated with lower levels of frailty among old and oldest-old individuals (aged 70+). Public pension- and age-specific pathways to intergenerational support patterns may lead to health disparities. Policies and programs to reduce frailty among older people should aim to improve the financial capabilities of both older adults and their children by improving public pension programs and ensure adequate physical care services for older people.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1443 - 1468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living Near Contamination: The Impacts on Personal Well-Being","authors":"Sara Burcham,&nbsp;Wei-Wen Hsu,&nbsp;Jack Rubinstein,&nbsp;Sharon L. Larson,&nbsp;Susan M. Pinney","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10456-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10456-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of residential proximity (RP) to EPA-designated Superfund sites on personal well-being remains understudied. This study evaluated the well-being of residents living near a former uranium processing facility in Fernald, Ohio, now a Superfund site, which emitted significant amounts of radioactive hazardous waste. Baseline data were collected from 7,957 participants who voluntarily enrolled in the Fernald Community Cohort. Participants completed the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA), which assessed four well-being indicators: Life Satisfaction, Life in Control, Life Perspective, and Overall Physical Health. Separate multivariable ordinal logistic regression models were used to evaluate the cross-sectional relationship between RP and well-being outcomes. The results indicated that residents living within a 1-mile radius of the Superfund site had 38% greater odds of reporting lower Life Satisfaction compared to those residing 4–5 miles away [OR 1.38, 95% CI: 1.17, 1.64]. In the fully adjusted models, other significant risk factors emerged. Participants who reported two or more recent misfortunes in the past year were more likely to report a negative Life Perspective [OR 2.79, 95% CI: 2.36, 3.32]. Additionally, those with a weakened social ties had significantly higher odds of reporting diminished Life Satisfaction [OR 5.16, 95% CI: 4.33, 6.16]. This study identified RP to a Superfund site and psychosocial characteristics as significant predictors of well-being. Given the global prevalence of contaminated sites, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged regions, further investigation into their impact on local communities is essential.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1419 - 1441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10456-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bidirectional Mediating Effects between Problematic Internet Use and Obesity-Related Eating Behavior on College Students’ Sub-Health Status: A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis","authors":"Fangjie Dong,&nbsp;Yuqian Deng,&nbsp;Yuqiu Chen,&nbsp;Yibo Wu","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10464-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10464-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous studies have primarily explored binary relationships between problematic internet use (PIU), obesity-related eating behavior (OEB), and sub-health status (SHS) using cross-sectional designs, leaving gaps in understanding their dynamic interactions and developmental trajectories. Using two-wave longitudinal data (2022 &amp; 2024) from 3,609 Chinese college students, this study employed cross-lagged panel model to examine bidirectional relationships between PIU and OEB, and half-longitudinal mediation models to explore their underlying mechanisms affecting SHS. The findings revealed that OEB significantly predicted subsequent PIU, while PIU showed no significant delayed effect on OEB. Half-longitudinal mediation analysis demonstrated that PIU contributed to SHS through its immediate positive effect on concurrent OEB, while OEB increased SHS through its positive effect on subsequent PIU. This study reveals the complex temporal dynamics between PIU and OEB, demonstrating a negative spiral pattern where these behaviors mutually reinforce each other, and highlighting their synergistic effects on college students’ SHS through bidirectional mediating pathways. These findings suggest that preventing and improving SHS requires simultaneous intervention in both PIU and OEB rather than treating them as isolated issues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1399 - 1417"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental Alienation Behaviors and Adolescent Mental Health: A Two-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Parent-Child Attachment and Emotion Regulation","authors":"Kunyan Wang,&nbsp;Yinghang Huang,&nbsp;Xiangkui Zhang,&nbsp;Xuan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10474-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10474-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parental alienating behaviors represent a critical risk factor for adolescent mental health, yet their underlying mechanisms within the Chinese cultural context remain underexplored. This longitudinal study investigated the temporal dynamics through which parental alienating behaviors influence adolescent mental health outcomes via parent-child attachment and emotion regulation strategies. Utilizing three waves of data collected over two years from 837 Chinese adolescents in Yunnan Province, we administered validated measures including the Baker Strategy Questionnaire, Parent-Child Attachment Questionnaire, Emotion Regulation Strategies Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and Depression-Anxiety-Loneliness Scale. Results demonstrated that parental alienating behaviors significantly predicted reduced adolescent subjective well-being and heightened adolescent depression-anxiety-loneliness. Parent-child attachment emerged as a primary mediator, while both cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression significantly mediated these relationships. Crucially, chain mediation analyses revealed sequential pathways where parental alienating behaviors first compromised parent-child attachment, subsequently impairing adolescents’ emotion regulation capacity, and ultimately exacerbating adolescent mental health risks. These findings delineate the developmental trajectory through which family dysfunction impacts adolescent adjustment, suggesting that interventions strengthening parent-child relationships and enhancing adaptive emotion regulation strategies could mitigate the psychological consequences of parental alienation. The study advances cross-cultural understanding of family dynamics in mental health development while providing empirically grounded guidance for targeted interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 4","pages":"1377 - 1398"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adolescent Flourishing in South Africa","authors":"Shazly Savahl,&nbsp;Sabirah Adams,&nbsp;Ferran Casas,&nbsp;Heidi Witten","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10449-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10449-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The measurement of flourishing as an indicator of social progress has gained global recognition as a priority for governments. Adolescents, in particular, have been empirically identified as a population requiring more focused research on flourishing. In South Africa, understanding adolescent flourishing is especially critical given the country’s unique socio-cultural, economic, and historical context. This study examines flourishing among a sample of adolescents in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. We used data from a provincial survey on children’s well-being, which included a sample of 1045 adolescents between the ages of 13–19. We conceptualised flourishing as comprising both hedonic (feeling well) and eudaimonic (functioning well) components, including positive and negative affect, measured using four scales. Our analysis comprised a structural validation of the scales and measurement invariance testing across age and gender. We also report on the level of flourishing using mean scores and the percentage of scale maximum statistic. The results demonstrated appropriate fit for all the scales, with scalar measurement invariance tenable for all the scales across age and gender. The findings reveal generally high levels of well-being, though disparities in context-free life satisfaction and variations across demographic groups, highlighting the need for contextually-grounded assessments of adolescent flourishing. Overall, the study found high scores of flourishing, which is somewhat inconsistent with the objective realities experienced by adolescents in various contexts in South Africa.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1339 - 1376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10449-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145162628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness","authors":"Xiaobin Lou,&nbsp;Brian W. Haas,&nbsp;John M. Zelenski,&nbsp;Cai Xing,&nbsp;Vivian L. Vignoles,&nbsp;Christin-Melanie Vauclair,&nbsp;Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg,&nbsp;Yukiko Uchida,&nbsp;Julien Teyssier,&nbsp;Claudio Torres,&nbsp;Chien-Ru Sun,&nbsp;Stanislava Stoyanova,&nbsp;Maria Stogianni,&nbsp;Iva Poláčková Šolcová,&nbsp;David Sirlopú,&nbsp;Ursula Serdarevich,&nbsp;Heyla A. Selim,&nbsp;Ruta Sargautyte,&nbsp;Espen Røysamb,&nbsp;Vladyslav Romashov,&nbsp;Muhammad Rizwan,&nbsp;Zoran Pavlovid,&nbsp;Vassilis Pavlopoulos,&nbsp;Joonha Park,&nbsp;Yvette van Osch,&nbsp;Ayu Okvitawanli,&nbsp;Azar Nadi,&nbsp;Martin Nader,&nbsp;Nur Fariza Mustaffa,&nbsp;Elke Murdock,&nbsp;Oriana Mosca,&nbsp;Tamara Mohoric,&nbsp;Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin,&nbsp;Fridanna Maricchiolo,&nbsp;Arina Malyonova,&nbsp;Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha,&nbsp;Vivian Miu-Chi Lun,&nbsp;Xinhui Liu,&nbsp;Liman Man Wai Li,&nbsp;J. Hannah Lee,&nbsp;Anna Kwiatkowska,&nbsp;Nicole Kronberger,&nbsp;Olga Kostoula,&nbsp;Aleksandra Kosiarczyk,&nbsp;Agata Kocimska-Zych,&nbsp;Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová,&nbsp;Natalia Kascakova,&nbsp;İdil Işık,&nbsp;Eric Raymond Igou,&nbsp;David O. Igbokwe,&nbsp;Diana Boer,&nbsp;Alin Gavreliuc,&nbsp;Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir,&nbsp;Vladimer Gamsakhurdia,&nbsp;Márta Fülöp,&nbsp;Carla Sofia Esteves,&nbsp;Alejandra Dominguez-Espinosa,&nbsp;Patrick Denoux,&nbsp;Michael Harris Bond,&nbsp;Arno Baltin,&nbsp;Douglas Arevalo,&nbsp;Lily Appoh,&nbsp;Isabelle Albert,&nbsp;Charity S. Akotia,&nbsp;Mladen Adamovic,&nbsp;Kuba Krys","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countries. We utilized machine learning (random forests approach) to examine how well an array of 18 different societal and cultural-level indicators were associated with country-level happiness idealization. We found robust and consistent evidence that greater cultural religiosity was associated with reduced idealization of happiness across four different types of happiness, including life satisfaction and interdependent happiness. These findings demonstrated that how much happiness is pursued varies considerably according to sociocultural context and highlights the role of cultural religiosity in shaping how people think about high levels of happiness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1289 - 1313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145162251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life and Work-life Balance Satisfaction Among Parents Working From Home: the Role of Work-time and Childcare Demands","authors":"Anna Kurowska,&nbsp;Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska,&nbsp;Tsegachew Degu Kasegn,&nbsp;Bartłomiej Rokicki","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10467-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10467-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the relationship between working from home (WFH) and satisfaction with work-life balance (WLB) and life satisfaction among parents with dependent children, focusing on moderating factors related to work hours and childcare demands. We differentiate between parents who continued WFH from before the COVID-19 pandemic and those who began WFH during the pandemic. Using a dataset collected via a representative online survey in Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the United States, we provide cross-national estimates of WFH’s impact on WLB and life satisfaction. Data collection took place between June and September 2021, capturing a unique period when WFH was widespread but pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted. Our findings show that both fathers and mothers across all countries reported higher WLB when WFH, particularly if they gained the opportunity to WFH during the pandemic. However, the association between WFH and life satisfaction was less consistent and varied by gender and country. For parents who worked from home prior to the pandemic, WFH was linked to higher WLB satisfaction only if they did not work long hours. Interestingly, mothers who began WFH during the pandemic reported higher WLB satisfaction even when working long hours or bearing primary childcare responsibilities. This suggests that the newly gained ability to WFH was especially valued by mothers as a vital means of balancing intensive work and family demands during the pandemic. These findings underscore the importance of distinguishing between the short- and long-term effects of WFH on WLB in future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1315 - 1338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10467-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145161811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}