Background: This study explored how parents’ roles of accompanying children influence the relationship between children’s use of electronic devices and their sociability. Methods: This study used data from Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Care. Results: The results showed that parents’ time with their children on weekdays moderated the relationship between children using stationary devices and their sociability. However, time with children on weekends and holidays mediated the negative effect of children using mobile devices on their sociability. Conclusion: These findings have implications for future planners of childcare policies and educators regarding how to encourage parents to spend more time with their children and help them acquire sociability.
Background: This study aims to investigate the moderating effect of family health status on the relationship between involvement in housework of two-side parents' families and happiness of middle-aged women in Taiwan. Methods: The data used in this study were gathered from the Ministry of Science and Technology's program-"Intergenerational expectation and collaboration: an inquiry on a new mechanism of continued tradition across generations". The subjects (n = 512) were restricted to aged 45-64 years old who live with spouses and have children, and one of whose parent or parent-in-law is still alive. Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate how family health status moderates the relationship between involvement in housework of parents' families and parents-in-law's families and the happiness of middle-aged women. Results: 1) Family health status is positively correlated with their happiness. 2) The parents' health status can moderate the relationship between involvement in housework of parents' families and happiness of the middle-aged women. 3) The middle-aged women's health status can moderate the relationship between involvement in housework of parents-in-law's families and those women's happiness, and fathers-in-law's health status can moderate the relationship between husbands' involvement in housework of the women's parents-in-law's families and women's happiness. Conclusions: In future, when policies and programs related to the well-being of middle-aged women are being planned, the effect of women's health and family health status shall be considered as a key to improve those How to cite this paper: Lee, C.-F. and Tang, S.-M. (2020) The Moderating Effect of Health on the Relationship between Involvement in Housework of Parents' and Parents-in-Law's Families and Happiness of Middle-Aged Women in Taiwan. Health,
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