Doing what she thinks is best: Maternal psychological wellbeing and attaining desired work situations

Holmes, Erin K.; Erickson, Jenet Jacob; Hill, E. Jeffrey

doi:10.1177/0018726711431351

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“…Even mothers who do not desire employment may accrue mental health benefits from paid employment, at least if they acquire high quality jobs (Usdansky et al 2012). Leaving paid work may thus have far-reaching and negative long-term consequences for these mothers in terms of both financial and labour market matters as well in terms of health and well-being—of relevance to themselves (Ahrens and Ryff 2006; Bailey et al 2007; Holmes et al 2012; Munk-Olsen et al 2006), their child (McMunn et al 2010) and the work place (Hill and Weiner 2003; Mainiero and Sullivan 2005). …”

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The Impact of Child Behaviour Problems on Maternal Employment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

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This prospective population-based study examined associations between children’s behaviour problems and maternal employment. Information on children’s behaviour problems at 3 years from 22,115 mothers employed before pregnancy and participating in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study were linked to national register data on employment and relevant social background factors, mothers’ self-reported susceptibility to anxiety/depression and mother-reports of day-care attendance and fathers’ income. Mothers reporting their child to have severe (>2 SD) internalizing or severe combined behaviour problems (5 %) had excess risk of leaving paid employment irrespective of other important characteristics generally associated with maternal employment (RR 1.24–1.31). The attributable risk percent ranged from 30.3 % (internalizing problems) to 32.4 % (combined problems). Externalizing behaviour problems were not uniquely associated with mothers leaving employment.

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The Impact of Child Behaviour Problems on Maternal Employment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

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“…A number of studies have documented that incongruence between mothers' attitudes or desired employment status and actual employment are associated with reductions in subjective well-being or increased depressive symptoms (Berger, 2009;Klein et al, 1998;Holmes et al, 2012). More widespread availability of state subsidized day-care provision may imply more flexible options in combining different types of work and care arrangements with potential positive consequences for parental -in particular maternal -well-being.…”

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Day-Care Expansion and Parental Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Germany

Schober

Schmitt

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. We apply fixed-effects models at the county level. We find that in regions with larger day-care growth mothers and fathers expressed greater satisfaction with the available child care. In West Germany, the daycare expansion was positively associated with an increase in maternal satisfaction with family life, health, personal income, and life overall, whereas fathers' subjective well-being was less affected. In East Germany, for mothers the associations with some domains were similarly positive but reached statistical significance only for maternal satisfaction with family life. The results suggest that the excess demand before the expansion in West and East Germany restricted maternal choice and well-being more than fathers'.

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“…On the other hand, they may also miss out on some of the benefits of employment, such as an enriched identity, social support, and increased income (Barnett & Hyde, 2001). Consistent with this latter possibility, a recent study found that stay-at-home moms who wanted to work outside the home showed higher rates of depression than working moms or stay-at-home moms who embraced their role (Holmes, Erickson, & Hill, 2012). By contrast, stay-at-home dads reported generally relatively high levels of life satisfaction (Rochlen, McKelley, Suizzo, & Scaringi, 2008).…”

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The pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being?

Nelson¹,

Kushlev²,

Lyubomirsky³

2014

Psychological Bulletin

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The pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? The relationship between parenthood and well-being has become a hot topic among scholars, media, and general public alike. The research, however, has been mixed-some studies indicate that parents are happier than nonparents, whereas others suggest the reverse. We suggest that the question of whether parents are more or less happy than their childless peers is not the most meaningful one. To reconcile the conflicting literature and expand understanding of the emotional experience of parenthood, we present a model of parents' well-being that describes why and how parents experience more or less happiness than nonparents (i.e., mediators of the link between parenthood and well-being). We then apply this model to explain when parents are more likely to experience more or less happiness (i.e., moderators of parents' well-being, such as parent age or child temperament). Supporting our model, we review 3 primary methodological approaches: studies comparing parents and nonparents, studies examining changes in well-being across the transition to parenthood, and studies comparing parents' experiences while with their children to their other daily activities. Our review suggests that the relationship between parenthood and well-being is highly complex. We propose that parents are unhappy to the extent that they encounter relatively greater negative emotions, magnified financial problems, more sleep disturbance, and troubled marriages. By contrast, when parents experience greater meaning in life, satisfaction of their basic needs, greater positive emotions, and enhanced social roles, they are met with happiness and joy.

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Doing what she thinks is best: Maternal psychological wellbeing and attaining desired work situations

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

The Impact of Child Behaviour Problems on Maternal Employment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

The Impact of Child Behaviour Problems on Maternal Employment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Day-Care Expansion and Parental Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Germany

The pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being?

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