Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify perceived work-family conflict of married working women and men with children under 12 years. Specifically, This study attempts to examine the differences of relative influence between objective time variables and subjective satisfaction variables unlike previous research. For research, this study used the data of 1012 working men and women from the 3rd Nation survey of Korean Family in 2015. The main results of this study were as following. First, Business hours and cognition of enough leisure time had more relative effect of work→family conflict than any other variable. On the other hand, leisure time on weekdays had the effect of family→work conflict with women and men. Second, gender differences of work→family conflict and family→work conflict were identified. In work→family conflict, men were influenced cognition of enough leisure time, women were influenced couple conversation time and employment status unlike men. In family→work conflict, men were not influenced subjective satisfaction variables. But women were influenced satisfaction with division of child care. Third, in family→work conflict, the addition of objective time variables in Model of men resulted in an increased -value, but in work→family conflict and family→work conflict, the addition of subjective satisfaction variables in Model of women resulted in an increased -value.

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