Exploring Leave Policy Preferences: A Comparison of Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States

Valarino, Isabel; Duvander, Ann‐Zofie; Haas, Linda; Neyer, Gerda

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“…A majority of the registered psychologists work in clinical settings within public sectors. The Swedish social context has long been influenced by political reformist social democratic ideas and has strong laws for the protection of employees' rights, including parental leave (Duvander, Haas, & Hwang, 2017;Valarino, Duvander, Haas, & Neyer, 2018). This, together with a high standard of living, may help explain why Sweden is among the countries in Europe with the lowest level of burnout (Schaufeli, 2018).…”

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The relationship between personality, work, and personal factors to burnout among clinical psychologists: exploring gender differences in Sweden

Allwood

Buratti

2020

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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This study investigated the effects of gender, personality (prosocialness, relational-interdependent self-construal, and brooding), job demands, affective work rumination, and personal-to-work conflict on burnout (exhaustion and disengagement), among clinical publichealth psychologists in Sweden. The participants answered a selfreport questionnaire (n = 828). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that affective work-rumination, brooding and personalto-work conflict were most strongly associated with exhaustion, whereas affective work-rumination, brooding, role conflict, and prosocialness most strongly predicted disengagement. Furthermore, in the full models, quantitative job demands and relational-interdependent self-construal related to exhaustion, whereas emotional demands related to disengagement. Interestingly, role conflict had a positive relation and emotional demands a negative relation to disengagement. Women reported higher exhaustion, but not higher disengagement, than men. Women also reported higher levels on most of the independent variables. In sum, the results show that a broad range of factors influence burnout among clinical psychologists.

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“…Moreover, the entry into school is problematic due to the scarcity of supervised lunch programmes or afterschool care services. Maternity leave in Switzerland, which is 14 weeks at the federal level, is one of the shortest in Europe, and the country does not offer paternity and parental leave at all (OECD 2015;Valarino et al 2017). The main instrument of reconciliation between work and family life is women's part-time employment (Levy et al 2006;Widmer and Ritschard 2009), and 45.6% of women work part-time (in Europe, this share is higher only in the Netherlands: 60.7%; OECD 2015, data for 2012).…”

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“…Overall, our results echo those of a recent study showing a mismatch between family policies and public attitudes in Switzerland. According to Valarino et al (2017), about half of the respondents state that paid leave should be longer than the present 4 months leave, and about 80% think the father should take at least some leave or that leave should be equally shared between partners. In conclusion, grandparenting and women's part-time job, which represent the main strategies of families in Switzerland, may not be perceived as satisfactory to balance work and family.…”

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The Parenthood and Happiness Link: Testing Predictions from Five Theories

Mikucka

Rizzi

2019

Eur J Population

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This research studied the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction in Switzerland. We tested predictions derived from set-point theory, the economic model of parenthood, the approaches that underscore work-family conflict and the psychological rewards from parenthood, and the 'taste for children' theory. We used Swiss Household Panel data (2000-2018) to analyse how life satisfaction changed during parenthood (fixed-effects regression) separately for a first child and a second child, mothers and fathers, and various socio-demographic groups. Our results showed that having a second child, which is common in Switzerland, correlates negatively with mothers' life satisfaction. The observed patterns are consistent with the idea that mothers' life satisfaction trajectories reflect work-family conflict. We found partial support for the set-point and the 'taste for children' theories. Our results did not support the approaches that emphasize the importance of psychological rewards from parenthood.

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“…Although previous research offers a general description of parental leave practices in the U.S. and its benefits (e.g., Gault et al 2014;Klerman et al 2013;Petts, Knoester, and Li 2020), scholars have yet to fully investigate public opinions about paid parental leaves in the U.S. and the factors associated with these opinions. Largely, this is because public opinion data about U.S. adults' support for paid parental leave policies are sparse and overwhelmingly descriptive (Author citation; Petts et al 2020;Valarino et al 2018).…”

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“…The present study uses national data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and draws upon welfare attitudinal theorizing and research (e.g., Blekesaune and Quadagno 2003;Chung and Meulman 2017;Mischke 2014;Valarino et al 2018) to describe and analyze U.S. public opinions on paid parental leave availability for the parents of a new child, desired lengths of paid leave offerings, and government funding for paid leaves. Specifically, we focus upon the institutional, self-interest, and ideational foundations for leave preferences.…”

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Attitudes about Paid Parental Leave In the U.S.

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Petts³

2021

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Paid parental leave offerings in the U.S. are relatively rare and unequal. Yet, little is known about public opinions about paid leave and the factors that distinguish adults’ attitudes about them. With the use of data from the General Social Survey, we investigated attitudes about paid parental leave availability, preferred lengths of paid leave offerings, and government funding of leave in the U.S. We found overwhelming support for paid parental leave availability, an average preference for four months of paid leave offerings, and common support for at least some government funding for leaves. Older and more politically conservative individuals were consistently less supportive of paid parental leave availability, longer lengths of leave, and government funding of leave. Women, supporters of dual-earner expectations, black individuals, and those who were not working in paid labor were typically more supportive of generous paid parental leave offerings. These findings suggest that there have been longstanding desires for more widespread and generous paid parental leave offerings in the U.S. but that this has not yet been sufficient to prompt widely applicable policy changes across the nation.

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Exploring Leave Policy Preferences: A Comparison of Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States

Cited by 35 publications

References 41 publications

The relationship between personality, work, and personal factors to burnout among clinical psychologists: exploring gender differences in Sweden

The relationship between personality, work, and personal factors to burnout among clinical psychologists: exploring gender differences in Sweden

The Parenthood and Happiness Link: Testing Predictions from Five Theories

Attitudes about Paid Parental Leave In the U.S.

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