The differential impact of increasing and decreasing maternal work-family conflict on children's executive function difficulties in South Korea.
Although recent studies have examined the impacts of maternal work-family conflict (WFC) on child development, the cognitive domain remains underexplored. This study investigates the longitudinal relationship between maternal WFC and children's executive function (EF) difficulties in South Korea, wi...
| Published in: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 12; pp. 3923 - 3937 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2025
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