Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of work-family compatibility advantages and conflicts on subjective happiness of working mothers with children in early adolescence, and to find out the moderating effect of social support, so that work and family can be improved at the point of family change when children enter adolescence. The purpose of this study is to propose a plan to increase the subjective happiness of working mothers who need to be compatible.
 Methods For this purpose, data from the 13th year of the Korean Children's Panel of the Child Care Policy Research Institute were used, and 738 mothers who participated in the survey were the subjects of the study. The SPSS 23.0 statistical program was used for data analysis, and a moderating regression analysis was conducted to verify the moderating effect of social support.
 Results The results of this study are as follows. First, work-family compatibility was found to have a significant positive effect on subjective happiness. Second, work-family compatibility conflict was found to have a significant negative effect on subjective happiness. Third, social support did not play a moderating role in the effect of work-family compatibility on subjective happiness. Fourth, it was found that social support played a moderating role in the effect of work-family balance conflict on subjective happiness.
 Conclusions Through this study, the relationship between the benefits and conflicts of work-family compatibility and subjective happiness of working mothers with children in early adolescence was investigated, and the influence of the interaction between work-family compatibility benefits and conflicts and social support was investigated. In the relationship between subjective happiness, it was verified that the level of subjective happiness could vary according to the level of social support. This study is meaningful in that it suggested social support measures to reduce work-family balance conflicts and increase subjective happiness of working mothers in early adolescence and provided data for follow-up research. Finally, the limitations of the study and the need for follow-up studies were presented.

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