Employment and Parenting

Han, Wen-Jui; Hetzner, Nina Philipsen; Brooks‐Gunn, Jeanne

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“…Controlling for gross domestic product per capita, health expenditures, child health indicators, and social expenditure measures in a comparison of 19 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, paid leave that protects the parent's job was found to reduce infant mortality, whereas unpaid leave or leave that did not offer job protection did not reduce infant mortality (Shim, 2016). Parental leave policies also have the potential to affect cognitive, behavioral, and socioemotional adjustment later in childhood (Han, Hetzner, & Brooks-Gunn, 2019). Children whose fathers take parental leave relate to their mothers and fathers in more equitable ways, and fathers are more likely to regard themselves as equal co-parents (McHale & Sirotkin, 2019).…”

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Annual Research Review: Cross‐cultural similarities and differences in parenting

Lansford

2021

Child Psychology Psychiatry

126

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This article reviews contemporary research on cross-cultural similarities and differences in parenting. The article begins by providing a definition of culture and how both parenting and culture can change over historical time. The article then presents some classic theoretical frameworks for understanding culture and parenting before considering why parenting may be similar across cultures and why parenting may be different across cultures. The article next turns to a review of cross-cultural similarities and differences in several aspects of parenting, including physical caregiving, cognitive stimulation, warmth and acceptance, control and monitoring, and discipline. Cultural normativeness and beliefs on the legitimacy of parental authority are then considered as potential moderators that contribute to cross-cultural similarities and differences in relations between parenting and child outcomes. The article then considers implications for parenting interventions and laws and policies related to parenting. Finally, the article suggests directions for future research.

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Annual Research Review: Cross‐cultural similarities and differences in parenting

Lansford

2021

Child Psychology Psychiatry

126

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“…Mothers' employment was added as a control variable on the basis of past research showing that the stresses associated with mothers' employment status affects their emotion and interactions with their children. Especially relevant to the current divorcing sample is research showing that, among single mothers, low rates of employment (i.e., part time or less) are associated with lower provision of emotional support toward their children (Buehler et al, 2014; for a more complete discussion, see Han et al, 2019).…”

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Mothers’ aversion sensitivity and reciprocal negativity in mother–child interactions: Implications for coercion theory.

Moed¹

2022

Developmental Psychology

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Coercion theory well characterizes the behavioral aspects that often lead to dysfunctional family processes. Recent conceptualizations have incorporated emotion into models of coercive interactions, yet empirical evidence has been limited. In this study, repeated measures of mother–child dyads (N = 319) were assessed over the course of 2 years to examine whether within-mother (i.e., intraindividual) levels of aversion sensitivity—their negative emotional arousal when faced with aversive child behavior—are associated with four known components of coercive parent–child interactions: initiation, length, frequency, and the tendency to end the negative cycle. During multiple assessments over 2 years, conflictual conversations between newly divorced mothers (Mbaseline age = 36.8, SDbaseline age = 6.6; 64% non-Hispanic White) and their 4- to 11-year-old children (Mbaseline age = 7.77, SDbaseline age = 2.0; 52% female) were observed and microcoded. Forty-seven observed child behaviors were ranked from low to high aversive. Mothers’ general rates of negative emotional expression and the rates at which their negative expression increased as children’s behavior became increasingly aversive (i.e., their aversion sensitivity) were recorded. Results were consistent with coercion theory, revealing significant within-dyad associations between mothers’ aversion sensitivity and all four components of coercive parent–child interactions. These findings suggest the importance of understanding the functions that parents’ intraindividual emotional processes have in difficult, coercive family processes. Understanding such processes holds promise for clarifying how to intervene to reduce parent–child interactions known to be problematic for children’s development.

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Employment and Parenting

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Annual Research Review: Cross‐cultural similarities and differences in parenting

Annual Research Review: Cross‐cultural similarities and differences in parenting

Mothers’ aversion sensitivity and reciprocal negativity in mother–child interactions: Implications for coercion theory.

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