Working parents often report difficulties in establishing optimal work–family balance, and such difficulties tend to yield poorer parent well‐being, parenting quality, and child well‐being. Despite advances in understanding of the long‐lasting and multifaceted benefits of purpose in life, up to this point, scant attention has been given to the concept of purpose as a practical means for promoting better parent well‐being and parenting quality, which also has far‐reaching impacts on child well‐being and trajectories. The goal of this paper is to discuss purpose as a potential catalyst and anchor for work–family balance and its associated outcomes of parenting well‐being, parenting quality, and child well‐being. Drawing from ecological systems, family systems, life course, and family resilience theories, this paper presents a conceptual model that depicts these relationships. Recommendations for advancing future research that supports theory building from this work as well as practice are provided.

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目的：实现最佳工作与家庭平衡和福祉的潜在催化剂和锚点


在职父母经常报告说难以建立最佳的工作与家庭平衡，而这些困难往往会导致父母的幸福感、养育质量和儿童幸福感变差。尽管对人生目标的持久和多方面好处的理解取得了进展，但到目前为止，人们很少关注作为促进父母福祉和养育质量的实用手段的目标概念，这也对儿童的福祉和轨迹产生了深远的影响。本文的目标是讨论作为工作与家庭平衡的潜在催化剂和锚点的目标，以及其与育儿福祉、育儿质量和儿童福祉相关的结果。本文借鉴生态系统、家庭系统、生命历程和家庭弹性理论，提出了一个描述这些关系的概念模型。为推进未来研究提供了建议，以支持从这项工作和实践中建立理论。