Work Stress and Parenting Styles: A Study of Their Interconnection and Effects on Life Satisfaction among Working Mothers

With the increasing burden of work on people and the rising need for attention on children from mothers, the question how these both influence the working mothers’ life arises. This study focuses on how work stress and parenting styles affect each other, and impact the life satisfaction among working mothers. The study’s main objective is to find the relation between parenting styles and work-life balance. The target population is working mothers, and a sample size of 75 is collected. They were surveyed using questionnaires like Work-stressor questionnaire, Parenting Styles dimensions Questionnaire, and Satisfaction with Life scale for the variables Work stress, Parenting styles, and Life satisfaction respectively. Quantitative Correlational design is adopted to measure the variables. The study’s results show that there is a negative significant correlation between Work stress and Life satisfaction (ρ = -0.316, p = 0.006) and a positive significant relationship between Work stress and Parenting styles (ρ = 0.327, p = 0.004). Some parenting styles like Authoritarian and Permissive are found to be associated with higher work stress among working mothers. The results also show that there is a weak negative relationship between Parenting styles and Life satisfaction (ρ = -0.097, p = 0.409).