Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health: Is High-Quality Care Associated with Fewer Depressive Symptoms?

Autor/inn/en	Gordon, Rachel A.; Usdansky, Margaret L.; Wang, Xue; Gluzman, Anna
Titel	Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health: Is High-Quality Care Associated with Fewer Depressive Symptoms?
Quelle	In: Family Relations, 60 (2011) 4, S.446-460 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0197-6664
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00657.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Mental Health; Depression (Psychology); Child Care; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Stress Variables; Young Children; Educational Quality; Parent Attitudes; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Psychohygiene; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Frühe Kindheit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Elternverhalten
Abstract	Finding high-quality child care may pose financial and logistical challenges and create ongoing emotional strains for some mothers. We use the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to ask (a) are child-care settings that mothers select on the basis of their own perceptions of quality rated more highly by independent observers (and more often recommended by mothers to friends) than settings that mothers selected for other reasons? (b) Do mothers report fewer depressive symptoms when they use high-quality care, as they perceive it, as assessed by independent observers and as indicated by their likelihood of recommending it? We find that mothers' reports coincide with independent observers' ratings in some respects but diverge in others, and only mothers' reports significantly relate to fewer average depressive symptoms after adjusting for confounds. Future research and policy should consider how mothers evaluate care quality and how these evaluations affect their mental health. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10