Maternal Employment and Parenting Through Middle Childhood: Contextualizing Factors

Buehler, Cheryl; O’Brien, Marion; Swartout, Kevin M.; Zhou, Nan

doi:10.1111/jomf.12130

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“…Research suggests that long work hours and high work–family conflict reduce this type of parent work (Ferreira et al, ; Viera et al, ). Yet others found that mothers' employment enhanced the quality of mothering for children from infancy to fifth grade and suggested that across social class levels, children benefited from mothers' multiple roles (e.g., worker, parent; Buehler, O'Brien, Swartout, & Zhou, ). These discrepant findings point to the need for greater specificity in how the relationship between parent work and paid work varies by children's developmental stage, work conditions, and family characteristics.…”

Section: Unpaid Work and Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Blacks are more likely to work nonstandard hours (especially at night) and have more unpredictable work schedules than Whites (Boushey, ; Lambert, Fugiel, & Henly, ; McCrate, ; Su & Dunifon, ), but the measurement of race (e.g., White vs. other race; Black, Hispanic, other) often makes it impossible to specify differences across and within groups. Buehler et al () discussed how controlling for race and class masked important group differences. There are important exceptions.…”

Section: Paid Work and Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

Perry‐Jenkins

Gerstel

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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In the second decade of the 21st century, research on work and family from multiple disciplines flourished. The goal of this review is to capture the scope of this work–family literature and to highlight both the valuable advances and problematic omissions. In synthesizing this literature, the authors show that numerous scholars conducted studies and refined theories that addressed gender, but far fewer examined racial and class heterogeneity. They argue that examining heterogeneity changes the understanding of work–family relations. After briefly introducing the broad social, political, and economic context in which diverse work–family connections developed, this review uses this context to address the following three main themes, each with subtopics: (a) unpaid work including housework, parenting as work, and kin work; (b) paid work including work timing and hours, money (i.e., motherhood penalty, fatherhood bonus, marriage bonus, kin care penalty), relationships (i.e., coworkers, supervisors), and work experiences (i.e., complexity, autonomy, urgency); and (c) work–family policies (i.e., scheduling and child care). Given the breadth of the work–family literature, this review is not exhaustive but, rather, the authors synthesize key findings on each topic followed by a critique, especially with regard to the analyses of differences and inequalities around gender, race, ethnicity, and social class.

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Section: Unpaid Work and Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paid Work and Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

Perry‐Jenkins

Gerstel

2020

J of Marriage and Family

187

123

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“…The review indicates that a small number of studies utilized theoretical frameworks such as role expansion theory (Buehler, O'Brien, Swartout, & Zhou, 2014;Zhou & Buehler, 2016) and conservation-of-resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) to guide hypothesis development or interpret results. Expansionist theory (Barnett & Hyde, 2001) posits that humans have abundant energy and that participation in one role can have a positive effect on other roles.…”

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Sole Mothers in the Workforce: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Work–Family Research

Robinson

Magee

Caputi

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Sole mothers potentially experience greater difficulties in meeting the challenges of combining employment and family than do partnered mothers, although there is remarkably little research on the work–family interface of sole mothers. A systematic review of quantitative literature on employed mothers is presented in this article to provide a case for further research on sole employed mothers, in particular for more comparative studies with partnered mothers. Conservation‐of‐resources theory is proposed as a theoretical framework for exploring these differences, research propositions are offered, and the implications of future research are discussed.

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“…Previous studies found that maternal employment and family socioeconomic status (SES) can differentially shape parenting and parental stress, which in turn shape children’s psychological adjustment (e.g., Buehler et al 2014; Chang 2013; Conger et al 2010; Cooklin et al 2015; Fuller et al 2002). However, existing research on maternal employment and family SES has predominantly sampled Western families.…”

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Maternal Employment and Family Socioeconomic Status: Unique Relations to Maternal Stress, Parenting Beliefs, and Preschoolers’ Adjustment in Taiwanese Families

2018

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With the rapid increase in women’s labor force participation in Asia, a greater understanding of the impact of maternal employment on parenting and child development in Asia is much needed. The present study examined the concurrent relations between maternal employment status and family characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status/SES, family structure) in Taiwanese families, and the unique relations of maternal employment and family SES to maternal stress, parenting beliefs, and preschoolers’ socioemotional adjustment. In a school-based sample of 511 preschoolers (age range = 4–6 years, 52.9% girls), their mothers, and teachers in Taipei and Taitung, mothers reported their employment status, family characteristics, perceived stress and parenting beliefs. Mothers and teachers rated preschoolers’ adjustment. Results showed that compared to unemployed mothers in Taiwan, employed mothers were more likely to come from families with higher SES and fewer children, and nuclear (vs. extended) families. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model. Mothers from lower-SES families reported higher stress and higher endorsement of coercive parenting, and lower endorsement of authoritative parenting than mothers from higher-SES families. Controlling for SES, employed mothers endorsed higher coercive parenting than unemployed mothers. Mothers’ endorsement of authoritative parenting was associated with better child adjustment by mothers’ (but not teachers’) reports, whereas maternal stress and coercive parenting were associated with poorer child adjustment (by mothers’ reports only). In sum, maternal employment was intricately associated with family SES in Taiwanese families, and the two contextual factors shape parenting and child adjustment in different processes.

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Maternal Employment and Parenting Through Middle Childhood: Contextualizing Factors

Cited by 26 publications

References 95 publications

Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

Sole Mothers in the Workforce: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Work–Family Research

Maternal Employment and Family Socioeconomic Status: Unique Relations to Maternal Stress, Parenting Beliefs, and Preschoolers’ Adjustment in Taiwanese Families

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