Associations between work-privacy conflict and parental relationship satisfaction two years after childbirth: unveiling the moderating role of personality
Sophia Schmidt, Isabel Jaramillo, Judith T. Mack, Victoria Weise, Eva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel · 2026
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Schmidt and co-authors follow new parents in eastern Germany, in this 2026 longitudinal study. They ask how work-privacy conflict relates to relationship satisfaction two years after childbirth. Work-privacy conflict is the feeling that work invades private life. They also ask whether personality changes the answer. Data came from 686 mothers and 702 fathers, with personality measured at eight weeks postpartum, conflict at fourteen months, and satisfaction at two years.
For fathers the story was simple: more conflict predicted lower satisfaction regardless of personality. Mothers showed an interaction with neuroticism, the tendency toward negative emotion. Mothers with average or high neuroticism reported low satisfaction whether their conflict was high or low, while low-neuroticism mothers were satisfied unless their work-privacy conflict ran high. The authors read neuroticism itself as a risk marker for new mothers and recommend stronger work-family supports after childbirth.
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| CREATOR | Sophia Schmidt, Isabel Jaramillo, Judith T. Mack, Victoria Weise, Eva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |