Recharging exhausted parents: How and when involvement in children's education increases working parents' flourishing at home and engagement at work.

ABSTRACT: Parental involvement in children's education is highly valued and encouraged in many societies. While existing research has mainly focused on the positive effects parental involvement has for children, we argue that engaging in such quality parent-child interactions can also be a resource-gaining process for parents. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and the work-home resources model, the current study aims to investigate how and when working parents' involvement in children's education enhances their well-being at home and engagement at work. Using a two-wave survey of 206 full-time employees with at least one school-aged child, our results indicate that for parents experiencing higher levels of parental burnout, involvement in their children's education enhances their flour

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11444731 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature