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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Maternal Employment"”.
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The Relationship Between Maternal Employment and Children's Physical Activity
… male children (.342, p = .002). ANOVA (mothers' employment status x mean daily step count) was used to determine differences among the three groups (full time, part time, and not employed). No significant differences in children's mean step counts were found among any of the groups (F (2, 141) = …
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Effects of Punishment Style and Maternal Employment on Reasons for Living.
… working outside the home for pay and the type of employment (parttime vs. full-time). Participants were administered the expanded Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) which assesses reasons people have for not committing suicide. Thus, the independent variables were punishment style (physically …
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The Effect of Maternal Employment on Adolescents' Transition to Young Adulthood
Despite the lack of mediation and moderation, the findings of this study have important implications for social policy and social work intervention. Based on the findings, suggestions are made in these areas to improve working mothers' lives and their adolescents' development and successful …
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The effect of maternal employment on adolescents' transition to young adulthood
… between multiple characteristics of maternal employment, parenting practices, and adolescents’ transition outcomes to young adulthood. The research addressed four main research questions. First, are the characteristics of maternal work (i.e., hours worked, multiple jobs held, work …
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Exploring maternal employment in post-socialist countries: understanding the implications of childcare policies
Access to paid employment has conspicuous economic, political, cultural and social implications, for both personal autonomy and gender equality. Eight most advanced postsocialist countries that entered the European Union in 2004 have boasted comparatively high full-time employment rates for women …
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Maternal employment : exploring the relationship between maternal stress, child factors and daily routines
… why working mothers are stressed. Studies of maternal employment have demonstrated that working mothers are exposed to the numerous, often conflicting roles of being a wife, a mother, and an employee (Apter, 1993, Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985; LeMesurier, 1995). These opposing roles usually …
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Maternal employment as a predictor of infant social experience and responsiveness to stranger
… A significant interaction was found between maternal work status and age of the infant. However, neither age of the infant nor maternal work status emerged as significant main effects. The significant interaction between the age of the infant and mother work status needs to be more thoroughly …
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Family Income, Maternal Marital Status, Maternal Employment, and the Development of Overweight and Obesity During Childhood.
… associations of family income level, maternal marital status, and maternal employment with body mass measurements and the development of overweight and obesity. Multiple linear and logistic regressions were used to assess the effects of the exposure variables on weight status with …
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Maternal Employment: Investigating the Links Among Family and Job Characteristics, Emotional States, Social Supports, and Child Rearing Practices
Maternal employment research has been hindered by the lack of an adequate conceptual model representing the process through which maternal employment may influence children's development. To develop such a model, the present study investigated (1) the stress associated with the incompatibility …
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Maternal Employment Status, Parental Attitude Toward and Satisfaction With That Status, and the Behavior of Children in Preschool
… which intervene in the relationship between maternal work status and child behavior, one goal was to determine whether child behavior was related to maternal employment when the other variables were controlled. Results indicated that maternal employment status was significantly related to …
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Maternal Employment and Family Socioeconomic Status Effects on Daughter's Self-Concept and Attitude Towards Women and Work: LISREL Models
… study was to investigate the effect of mother's employment variables and family socioeconomic status on daughter's self-concept and attitude towards women and work. Two groupings of 9th and 12th grade subjects were investigated: daughters whose mothers were employed at least part of the time …
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Three essays in Health and Labour Economics
… studies that focus on childcare availability, maternal labour supply and children’s health. Chapter 1 analyses the impact of extending childcare availability on maternal labour outcomes in Russia. I exploit a substantial variation in childcare availability across regions over time. Based on …
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Essays on childhood obesity
… side effects. In the third essay, “The Impact of Maternal Employment on Children’s Adiposity: Evidence from the China’s Labor Policy Reform”, we provide new evidence on the effect of maternal employment on childhood adiposity using the longitudinal survey data from the China Health and Nutrition …
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Influences Of Early Child Characteristics And Health On Later Parent And Parent-Child Relationship Factors
… temperament and health difficulties influence maternal characteristics over the first three years as well as the mother child relationship. We used longitudinal data from 1364 families, collected as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD). Longitudinal …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: Does Mother's Working Behaviour Make a Difference?
… using ordered probit regression indicate that maternal employment is insignificant in affecting transmission of religious practice to her youth offspring. Instead, we find evidence of intergenerational transmission of religious participation between mother and youth, with a stronger …
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Anticipated work-family conflict amongst Commerce students at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
… 'lawn (UCT). Based on social-cognitive theory maternal employment, parental role-sharing and parental education levels were investigated as social antecedents to AWFC. Sell-efficacy to manage future work-family conflict, positive affect and negative affect were proposed as personal antecedents …
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Women Employment and Health
… three empirical chapters exploring women’s employment and health interactions, through the consequences of the 2008/9 economic crisis on the UK gender wage gap, the effects of postpartum depression on maternal employment after childbirth, and the potential long-term impacts of postpartum …
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Anticipated work-family conflict among STEM students: the role of core self-evaluations and parental role modelling
… modelling was examined in three forms: parental employment, parental role sharing responsibilities, and perceptions of parental work-family interference. Parental employment refers to whether participants parents were employed full-time, part-time or unemployed during various stages of their …
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Examine Predictors of BMI Classification and Perception of Overweght Status of Caregivers of Preschool Children
… genetics, food intake, and physical activity, maternal health during pregnancy, parental weight, maternal employment and sociodemographic influences. This study examined the relationship between caregiver misperception of their preschoolers’ overweight/obese weight status and possible …
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