RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN'S NEEDS IMPORTANCE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY AND WORK ROLES

Although quality of life and satisfaction/dissatisfaction with various life roles are constructs closely related to family relations, the data on how these are related to child-parent interactions are scarce. For that reason, an investigation of the relationship between children's needs perceptions, quality of life and family and work roles was conducted. The presented data are part of a broader research study aimed at exploring the diversity of work and family relations. This study was conducted on a sample of 2 283 working-age residents of Serbia. The subsample used in this study included participants with children, i.e. parents from this sample, 1 367 of them from 37 cities, towns and villages in Serbia. The mean age of participants was 47 years. Of the total number of subsample participants 38,9% were male and 61,1% female. PORPOS battery, a custom-created instrument consisting of 389 items grouped into questionnaires and scales measuring various psychological and socio-demographic constructs was used for data collection. By using this instrument, data on children's needs perception, quality of life, and family and work roles was collected. The results show that the best predictors of the perception of children's needs importance are social relations (quality-of-life domain) and satisfaction with the parent role as one component of the parent role quality.