The Influence of Maternal Employment on Children's Learning Growth and the Role of Parental Involvement

Autor/inn/en	Youn, M. J.; Leon, J.; Lee, K. J.
Titel	The Influence of Maternal Employment on Children's Learning Growth and the Role of Parental Involvement
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 182 (2012) 9, S.1227-1246 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2011.604944
Schlagwörter	Reading Achievement; Employment Level; Educational Development; Family Work Relationship; Mothers; Parent Participation; School Involvement; Parent School Relationship; Employed Parents; Correlation; Primary Education; Parent Child Relationship; Working Hours; Cognitive Development; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseleistung; Beschäftigungsgrad; Bildungsentwicklung; Mother; Mutter; Elternmitwirkung; Schulmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Korrelation; Primarbereich; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, this study employed a latent growth curve model to examine how parental involvement explains the association between maternal employment status and children's math and reading achievement growth from kindergarten through the third grade. To address this issue, three types of parental involvement--school participation, parent-child interaction, and educational trips--were considered. Our findings indicated that maternal employment can be both beneficial and detrimental to children's educational development depending on the mother's number of working hours. Students whose mothers were employed part time exhibited an advantage in academic learning because of increased rates of school participation and parent-child interaction, whereas students of mothers employed full time appeared to experience a lower learning growth, given lower rate of school participation and fewer educational trips than students of unemployed mothers. These findings highlight the importance of family context in understanding work-family relationships. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10