Work Characteristics and Parent‐Child Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Temporal Involvement

Roeters, Anne; Lippe, Tanja van der; Kluwer, Esther S.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00767.x

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“…Due to long working hours, they lack time to pay attention to their children (Roeters et al, 2010), and the adjustment hardships they encounter often leave them emotionally unavailable to their children. These factors have a detrimental effect on their parenting.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Long working hours, being paid by the hour, a confining organizational culture, and stress make parents' work more demanding and impair their ability to pay attention to their children (Roeters, van der Lippe, & Kluwer, 2010). Most participants in the study were engaged in non-professional work, earned minimal wages paid on an hourly basis, and were afraid of losing their source of income.…”

Section: Difficulties In Fulfilling Parental Responsibility In Immigrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Yakhnich

2016

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This qualitative study focuses on the parenting experience of immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel. Seventeen in-depth open interviews with FSU immigrant parents were conducted. All participants had been living in Israel between one-and-a-half and five years and had adolescent children aged 11 to 17. The central theme that emerges from the interviews is the participants' sense of parental responsibility, which is based on four central components: control, involvement, discipline, and parental guidance. Immigration challenges the participants' abilities to fulfil their responsibilities as parents by exposing them and their children to cultural differences in child-rearing practices and language difficulties. Pressures of work and learning to live in a new culture may lead to a lack of emotional and physical availability to their children. Participants try to cope with these challenges by maintaining child-rearing practices used in the FSU. Many parents report this means of coping as unsuccessful and feel helpless and uncertain in tackling new parental dilemmas posed by immigration.

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Section: Difficulties In Fulfilling Parental Responsibility In Immigrmentioning

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“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Yakhnich

2016

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“…12,15 Most research on parents' work and time with their children shows that longer work hours are associated with less parent-child time. 16 The correlational designs of this research, however, mean that conclusions about causal associations between work involvement or workplace conditions and parent-child shared time cannot be drawn. One exception is a study of a workplace initiative in a white collar organization that improved mothers' and fathers' perceptions of adequacy of time with their children; however, this study did not assess parents' actual time with children.…”

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Parents’ Daily Time With Their Children: A Workplace Intervention

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In the context of a group randomized field trial, we evaluated whether parents who participated in a workplace intervention, designed to increase supervisor support for personal and family life and schedule control, reported significantly more daily time with their children at the 12-month follow-up compared with parents assigned to the Usual Practice group. We also tested whether the intervention effect was moderated by parent gender, child gender, or child age. METHODS:The Support-Transform-Achieve-Results Intervention was delivered in an information technology division of a US Fortune 500 company. Participants included 93 parents (45% mothers) of a randomly selected focal child aged 9 to 17 years (49% daughters) who completed daily telephone diaries at baseline and 12 months after intervention. During evening telephone calls on 8 consecutive days, parents reported how much time they spent with their child that day.RESULTS: Parents in the intervention group exhibited a significant increase in parent-child shared time, 39 minutes per day on average, between baseline and the 12-month follow-up. By contrast, parents in the Usual Practice group averaged 24 fewer minutes with their child per day at the 12-month follow-up. Intervention effects were evident for mothers but not for fathers and for daughters but not sons. CONCLUSIONS:The hypothesis that the intervention would improve parents' daily time with their children was supported. Future studies should examine how redesigning work can change the quality of parent-child interactions and activities known to be important for youth health and development.WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Children' s time with parents is critical for healthy development. Lack of control over parents' schedules and limited supervisor support for personal and family life can interfere with parents' family time. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This is the first group randomized controlled field trial demonstrating effects of a workplace intervention, designed to increase schedule control and supervisor support, on working parents' time with their children, as assessed by using longitudinal daily telephone interviews. Dr Davis contributed to the conceptualization and design of the diary component of the Work, Family, and Health Study (WFHS), conceptualized the current study, planned the analysis steps, and wrote most of this manuscript; Dr Lawson conducted the analyses for the paper, wrote the Results section, created the tables and figures, and reviewed, revised, and approved this manuscript; Dr Almeida led the conceptualization and design of the telephone interview diary component of the WFHS, consulted on the analytic approach, and reviewed, revised, and approved this manuscript; Dr Kelly was involved in the design of the WFHS, including the development and implementation of the workplace intervention, and reviewed, revised, and approved this manuscript; Dr King contributed to the conception, design, and interpretation of the data, revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content...

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“…Clearly, in addition to having direct influences on their children, parents also have indirect influences on them by way of their crossover impacts on their partners (Barnett & Gareis, 2007;Bass, Butler, Grzywacz, & Linney, 2009;Bryant & Zick, 1996). This is especially the case for dual-earner couples with children who share work and family experiences and their mutual task of child rearing (Barnett & Gareis, 2007;Roeters et al, 2010). Crossover is the term used to describe the dyadic/interpersonal process that occurs when one person's experiences influence another person in the same social environment (Bakker, Demerouti, & Dollard, 2008;Westman, 2001).…”

Section: Work-family Dynamics and Parentingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parents’ work-family experiences and children’s problem behaviors: The mediating role of the parent–child relationship.

Vieira

Matias

Ferreira

et al. 2016

Journal of Family Psychology

116

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Studies on the impact of work-family dynamics on both parenting and children’s outcomes are scarce. The present study addressed this gap by exploring how parents’ negative (conflicting) and positive (enriching) experiencing of work and family roles related to children’s internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors through its association with the quality of parent–child relationships. A sample of 317 dual-earner couples with preschool children was used to conduct a dyadic analysis of both within- and cross-dyad influences of parents’ work-family experiences on child problem behaviors. Our results indicated that the way parents balance work and family is associated with their parent–child relationships, which in turn is differentially linked with their children’s behaviors. We found that mothers’ work-family conflict (WFC) contributed to children’s externalization difficulties through its detrimental associations with their own and with their partners’ parent–child relationship quality. By contrast, mothers’ work-family enrichment (WFE) was negatively linked to children’s externalization difficulties through its positive link with the mother–child relationship. Fathers’ experience of WFC was associated with both children’s internalization and externalization difficulties through its negative association with their own father–child relationship quality. In addition, fathers’ experience of WFE also linked to children’s externalization difficulties, but only indirectly, via its positive association with the quality of their relationship with the child. Further implications of these findings for advancing understanding of the impact of work-family dynamics on intrafamily relationships, as well as for individual and organizational interventions, are discussed.

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Work Characteristics and Parent‐Child Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Temporal Involvement

Cited by 98 publications

References 42 publications

“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

“This Is My Responsibility”: Parental Experience of Former Soviet Union Immigrant Parents in Israel

Parents’ Daily Time With Their Children: A Workplace Intervention

Parents’ work-family experiences and children’s problem behaviors: The mediating role of the parent–child relationship.

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