Parent Educators Experiencing Stress & Work-Family Conflict Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multiple Case Study

The COVID-19 pandemic creates havoc that affected the lives of every household Parentsare forced to teach their children while working at home. With this unprecedented role of parents, there isstill dearth in the literature of this phenomenon. This study explores the problems encountered by theparents who are currently teaching their children studying amidst this pandemic of academic year 2020-2021. Specifically, it aims to gain insight on the stress and work-family conflicts the parent educatorsexperienced. This qualitative research design study utilized the multiple case study as the approach througha semi structured one-on-one interviews. Six parent educators teaching in some private schools in theBatangas province served as participant of this study. The findings revealed that the stress experienced by parent educators can be themed into individual challenges, teacher’s working condition, whereas unmet social expectations, unbalanced work life, role strain and role overload are the themes that emerged on to work family conflict experienced by parent educators. The study can possibly help parent educators, school administrators, and mental health professionals better understand stress and work-conflict experienced by teachers. In this sense it may help in developing appropriate interventions in dealing with one’s stress and work-family conflict especially those in these times of pandemic. Results and implications are discussed further.

Keywords – parent educators, stress, work-family conflict