Social Sciences and Humanities Open (Jan 2025)
Work-family conflict among Turkish teachers during lockdown
Abstract
The concept of work-family conflict generally means that people's professional lives and family responsibilities interfere with each other, which is why they cannot work perfectly in both areas. The status of teachers in relation to work-family conflict had risen sharply because teaching activities had shifted online and at home during the pandemic. Specifically, this study tested whether organizational support, social support, teacher self-efficacy and parental self-efficacy predicted work-family conflict. The hypothesis of the study is that each of the aforementioned variables predicts work-family conflict. To this end, cross-sectional survey data were collected from 190 teachers, who teach online and have at least one child. As hypothesized, it was found that all paths from organizational support, social support, teacher self-efficacy and parent self-efficacy to work-family conflict were significant and had negative effects. This situation indicates that all of the above variables should be strengthened to reduce work-family conflict among teachers. The similar results were found in the Israel model. This proves that this conflict and the predictors are internationally valid.
