Mothering Young Children: Child Care, Stress and Social Life

Autor/inn/en	Rullo, Giuseppina; Musatti, Tullia
Titel	Mothering Young Children: Child Care, Stress and Social Life
Quelle	In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 20 (2005) 2, S.107-119 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-2928
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Experience; Social Life; Interpersonal Relationship; Interaction; Young Children; Mothers; Factor Analysis; Child Care; Parent Child Relationship; Stress Variables; Parent Attitudes; Urban Areas; Social Networks; Peer Relationship; Individual Characteristics; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziale Erfahrung; Soziales Leben; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interaktion; Frühe Kindheit; Mother; Mutter; Faktorenanalyse; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Elternverhalten; Urban area; Stadtregion; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Peer-Beziehungen; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Italien
Abstract	This study focuses on mothers' and young children's everyday social experience by analyzing their social relationships, social support in child care, mother-child interaction, and mothers' evaluations of all these aspects. Three hundred and eighty-four mothers with a child aged between 1 and 3 years, living in a city in Central Italy, were interviewed. A Principal Components Analysis was performed on items concerning mothers' and children's social experience and mothers' evaluations. Four PCA generated factors were regressed on the mother's and child's characteristics. Results show that, even in a context characterized by social conditions supportive to mothering, there is a comparatively widespread desire for social interaction with other mothers and children. A stress related to intensive mothering was found in a minority of the mothers and was predicted by the mothers' continuous commitment in child care during the whole day. Results are discussed in relation to the hypothesis that social contacts with other mothers may have a mitigating effect on mothers' stress. One implication is that early educational services that provide the opportunity for social intercourse among parents can be an important resource for them. (Contains 4 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10