THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD

EMOTIONAL NEGLECT AND WORK-FAMILY

CONFLICT AMONG SINGLE MOTHERS

Cezar, Rina Mae

Gabrino, Marigold
Perez, Christel
Villacencio, Alexandra
 What is known?
• Past studies comparing single-parent families with two-parent families, single
mothers are more disadvantaged and stressed than single fathers and parents
from intact families in terms of educational attainment, job status, financial strain,
coping with multiple roles, support networks, and parenting Hilton & Devall,
(1998).
• According to Craig, (2006), being a mother needs a bigger time commitment,
physical labor, and various roles and obligations towards their children, all of
which can lead to work-family conflict.
• Also, single parents have the worst work–life balance compared to the married
couples, cohabiting, or childless counterparts as stated by Van den Eynde et al.,
(2019).
• Recent family domain research has discovered a link between parents' work-family
conflict and a dysfunctional family system and their children's mental health
outcomes Cooklin et al., (2014) Dinh et al., (2017) Strazdins, Obrien, Lucas, &
Rodgers, (2013).
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 What is known?
• Dinh et al., (2017), suggests that when there is a conflict between work and
family problems, children are more prone to develop internalizing and
externalizing symptoms.
• In fact, Stoltenborgh et al., (2013) stated that emotional neglect is the most
overlooked forms of childhood maltreatment and that this form of
maltreatment has not received enough empirical attention, despite its high
prevalence and negative consequences.
• In addition, Egeland and Sroufe (1981), suggest that emotionally neglected
children are more likely to develop attachment problems.
• Lastly, Cassidy (1999), relate the importance of attachment bonds in
relationships, especially the child-caregiver relationships wherein the
closeness, security and comfort with a specific person was found.

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 Gaps in the Literature
• In our in-depth literature review, we found that most studies have only focused
on the various effects of emotional neglect, involving psychopathology,
interventions, and coping mechanisms, not the factors or antecedents of
emotional neglect.

• Upon continuing reading the literature, we also found growing studies about
work-family conflict wherein findings from cross-sectional studies suggest that
parent-parent and parent-child interactions within the family setting are
commonly compromised in the context of work-family conflict.

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 Research Questions and Hypothesis
1. Does work and family conflict associates with child emotional neglect?

2.Does work and family conflict positively predicts child emotional neglect?

H1.Work and family conflict associates with child emotional neglect.

H2.Work and family conflict positively predict child emotional neglect

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 Conceptual Model

Work-Family Conflict Emotional Neglect

Figure 1: Relationship of Work-family Conflict on Emotional neglect

The association between Work-Family Conflict and Emotional Neglect is represented

in the graph above. The researchers wants to investigate whether work-family conflict is
linked to child emotional neglect among single mothers in Bulacan.

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 Significance of the Study
The purpose of the study was to determine the association between
work-family conflict and child emotional neglect. The study hopes to
gain a better understanding of how the stress and perseverance of
every single working mother balance their time and resources within
work and family. In addition, it contributes to the growing literature in
the field of Family Psychology to give resolutions and emphasize the
importance of emotional support between the mother and child
relationship. Lastly, this will provide additional information for other
researchers interested in conducting future research in the related field.

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 Participants
• Participants
- 24-40 years old with child of 9-13years old
- 20(n=20) sample size
- 105 (N=105) population size
• Inclusion
- Single mothers who work outside of the home
- residing with their child
• Exclusion
- Not working outside of the home
- Not residing with their child

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 Measures
• Work and Family Conflict Scale (WAFCS)
- Created to measure work-family conflict (WFC) and family-
work conflict (FWC) in parents of young children age 2-12
years old. It is a 20 questions with 10-item scale with two
subscale examinimg theoretically distinct but related
construct: FWC(5-items) and WFC (10-items and 5-items).

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 Measures
• Multidimensional Neglectful Behavioral Scale, Form A20: Adolescent and
Adult-recall version (MNBS)
- 20-items (containing four subscale)
-measure neglect of four basic development needs:
(1) neglect of physical needs such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care;
(2) emotional needs such as affection, companionship,support;
(3) supervisory needs such as setting limits, attending to misbehavior,
knowing childs whereabouts, and friends; and
(4) cognitive needs such as reading to the child and explaining things. The
resulting score between 1 and 4, with 1-the lowest and 4-the heighest. A
score of 0 implies that the respondent responder did not experience any of
the behaviors on the scale, a score of 3indicates that they did, and so on.

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Thank you!
D12- Cezar, Rina Mae
Gabrino, Marigold
Perez, Christel
Villacencio, Alexandra