THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY ADOLESCENT AND PARENTS IN DUAL-INCOME FAMILY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
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The number of dual-earning family is growing in the current society where most of the both parents are working at the same time to seek for financial freedom. Therefore, they are struggling in balancing between work and family. This qualitative study with phenomenology research design conducted to explore the phenomena of dual-income parents on challenges faced by dual-earning parents. Besides that, this study also investigates the impact of dual-earning families on adolescents. Total five adolescents and working parents from Kuala Lumpur and Selangor were interviewed using semi-structured questions and the collected data was analysed using thematic analysis. The results show that the dual-income parents experiencing various challenges such as lack of interactions, stress, parenting role and imbalance role in their daily live. Whereas, a major challenge of adolescents in dual-income family is lack of interactions with parents where it affects adolescents to raise problems of communications with the parents. The current study has theoretically implied on raising awareness to dual-income parents to the challenges faced by adolescents and practically provide an overview of challenges faced by dual-income parents for the adolescent’s children from dual-income family background. Future studies could figure out possible coping strategies and looks into expectations of dual-income family members to help dual-income families in Malaysia tackle current challenges.
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