Early Maternal Employment and Children's School Readiness in Contemporary Families

Autor/inn/en	Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran; Coley, Rebekah Levine
Titel	Early Maternal Employment and Children's School Readiness in Contemporary Families
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 8, S.2071-2084 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0037106
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Employed Parents; School Readiness; Correlation; Cognitive Ability; Child Behavior; Regression (Statistics); Scores; Young Children; Time; Stress Variables; Wages; Family Income; Age Differences; Individual Characteristics; Racial Differences; Educational Attainment; Family Environment; Employment Level; Family Characteristics; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey; Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales; Bayley Scales of Infant Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Korrelation; Denkfähigkeit; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Frühe Kindheit; Zeit; Wage; Löhne; Familieneinkommen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rassenunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Familienmilieu; Beschäftigungsgrad
Abstract	This study assessed whether previous findings linking early maternal employment to lower cognitive and behavioral skills among children generalized to modern families. Using a representative sample of children born in the United States in 2001 (N = 10,100), ordinary least squares regression models weighted with propensity scores assessed links between maternal employment in the 2 years after childbearing and children's school readiness skills at kindergarten. There were neutral associations between maternal employment and children's school readiness, which were not differentiated by maternal time, stress, or wages. However, as nonmaternal household income decreased, maternal employment begun prior to 9 months was linked with higher cognitive skills, while employment begun between 9 and 24 months was linked with lower conduct problems. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01