Family Support on Working Mother’s Work-Family Conflict: Role of Communal Sharing Social Relations

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of family support on work-family conflict in mothers who work through communal sharing social relations. The formulation of the problem in this study is whether the effect of family support on work-family conflict in mothers who work through communal sharing social relations. The research was conducted with an indigenous psychological approach, carried out in the Special Region of Yogyakarta with the characteristics of the research subject is a wife who identifies herself as Javanese, has children under 12 years of age who live with her husband and work as professionals. Collecting research data using work-family conflict and family-work conflict scale, family support scale and communal sharing social relations scale given to 296 research subjects. The research data analysis used was a test measurement model at once against 4 constructs using path analysis. The conclusion of this study is that the model of the influence of family support on work-family conflict and family-work conflict in mothers who work through communal sharing social relations is empirically tested (chi-squared value with p> 0.05; GFI value ≥0.90; AGFI value ≥0.90). In addition, it was found that (1) family support has an effect on family conflict = work for working mothers with a total effect of-0.049 (p <0.05), but the effect is indirect through communal sharing social relations, (2) relations social communal sharing has a direct effect on work-family conflict in working mothers with a total effect of-0.263 (p <0.05).