Parents’ Involvement in Childcare

Gaunt, Ruth; Scott, Jonathan

doi:10.1177/0361684314533484

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“…To assess involvement in childcare in terms of task performance, a BWho does what?^measure asked participants to indicate their involvement in 19 specific childcare tasks (adapted from Gaunt and Scott 2014). The 19 tasks were selected to reflect those types of involvement typical of both fathers (playing, disciplining) and mothers (feeding, packing child's bag).…”

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Do Sexist Mothers Change More Diapers? Ambivalent Sexism, Maternal Gatekeeping, and the Division of Childcare

Gaunt

Pinho

2017

Sex Roles

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The present study examined the role of ambivalent sexist ideologies in the division of childcare responsibilities. We proposed maternal gatekeeping as a mediator through which hostile sexist attitudes toward men and women facilitate gendered division of childcare. A sample of 207 mothers with at least one child aged 6 years or younger completed extensive questionnaires. As hypothesized, the mother's hostile sexist attitudes toward men and women were positively related to maternal gatekeeping tendencies. Gatekeeping, in turn, was related to the mother's greater time investment in childcare and greater share of childcare tasks relative to the father. Finally, hostile sexist attitudes toward men and women had an indirect effect on the mothers' hours of care and relative share of childcare tasks, mediated though maternal gatekeeping. The findings underscore the importance of investigating the mechanisms through which sexist ideologies are translated into daily behaviors that help maintain a gendered social structure. They may be utilized to inform parenting interventions aimed at increasing collaborative family work and fathers' participation.

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Do Sexist Mothers Change More Diapers? Ambivalent Sexism, Maternal Gatekeeping, and the Division of Childcare

Gaunt

Pinho

2017

Sex Roles

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“…To date, few studies have compared different aspects of identity and their relative importance in the field of alcohol research, though this comparative importance of distinct identity domains has been a valuable predictor in other fields; for example, race (Sellers, Kuperminc, & Damas, 1997), gender (Martire, Stephens & Townsend, 2000; Settles, Jellison & Pratt-Hyatt, 2009), and parenting (Gaunt & Scott, 2014). In the alcohol field, we know of one study from the United Kingdom (Tarrant & Butler, 2011) that compared identity domains (but not drinking identity).…”

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Evaluating the relationship between explicit and implicit drinking identity centrality and hazardous drinking

Lindgren

Ramirez

Namaky

et al. 2016

Addictive Behaviors Reports

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Introduction Drinking identity strength (how strongly one views oneself as a drinker) is a promising risk factor for hazardous drinking. A critical next step is to investigate whether the centrality of drinking identity (i.e., the relative importance of drinking vs. other identity domains, like well-being, relationships, education) also plays a role. Thus, we developed explicit and implicit measures of drinking identity centrality and evaluated them as predictors of hazardous drinking after controlling for explicit drinking identity strength. Methods Two studies were conducted (Ns = 360 and 450, respectively). Participants, who self-identified as full-time students, completed measures of explicit identity strength, explicit and implicit centrality, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Study 1a evaluated two variants of the implicit measure (short- vs. long-format of the Multi-category Implicit Association Test); Study 1b only included the long form and also assessed alcohol consumption. Results In Study 1a, implicit and explicit centrality measures were positively and significantly associated with AUDIT scores after controlling for explicit drinking identity strength. There were no significant differences in the implicit measure variants, but the long format had slightly higher internal consistency. In Study 1b, results replicated for explicit, but not implicit, centrality. Conclusions These studies provide preliminary evidence that drinking identity centrality may be an important factor for predicting hazardous drinking. Future research should improve its measurement and evaluate implicit and explicit centrality in experimental and longitudinal studies.

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“…In this sense, the unbalanced conception of the involvement of fathers and mothers has been attenuated to certain extent (Lareau, 2002). However, differences between mother and father involvement did not necessarily diminish completely because of the multidimensional nature of parental involvement (Lamb, 2000; Gaunt and Scott, 2014). For instance, one study has validated that the differences of the time fathers and mothers spent in parenting activities, such as social activities and play, were not apparent, whereas mothers’ involvement in teaching and caring was particularly higher than that of fathers’ (Yeung et al, 2001).…”

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“…Hence, the characteristic of father and mother involvement in adolescent family may be different from that in the early childhood family. Previous studies focused on fathers or mothers’ involvement in the early childhood family mainly measured their parenting time in caring and playing with their early childhood (Gaunt and Scott, 2014), indicating that the study comparing three dimensions of parental involvement in childhood and adolescence is limited. However, Hawkins and Palkovitz (1999) pointed that a father’s direct engagement with young children could be stronger when compared to adolescent children, and effective parental involvement would sometimes be characterized by the absence of direct interaction in later parental periods.…”

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Differential Patterns of the Division of Parenthood in Chinese Family: Association With Coparenting Behavior

Zou

Liu

2019

Front. Psychol.

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The current study explored the division of parenthood in Chinese families with adolescents by identifying the parental involvement patterns in the data obtained from 786 pairs of parents. Division-of-parenthood patterns were created via factor mixture modeling using self-reported three dimensions of father and mother involvement. Three differential division-of-parenthood patterns were identified: (a) parent-cooperation pattern , where moderate and equivalent involvement existed between mothers and fathers; (b) mother-dominated pattern , where mother involvement was particularly greater than father involvement; and (c) father-dominated pattern , where father involvement was particularly greater than mother involvement. Families were more likely to be in the mother- or the father-dominated pattern as their levels of positive coparenting behaviors increased. By contrast, as the levels of paternal conflict behavior increased, families were likely to be in the mother-dominated pattern. This study highlighted parents’ individual parenting role, the diverse division-of-parenthood patterns in the family, and the important role of coparenting behavior.

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Parents’ Involvement in Childcare

Cited by 31 publications

References 93 publications

Do Sexist Mothers Change More Diapers? Ambivalent Sexism, Maternal Gatekeeping, and the Division of Childcare

Do Sexist Mothers Change More Diapers? Ambivalent Sexism, Maternal Gatekeeping, and the Division of Childcare

Evaluating the relationship between explicit and implicit drinking identity centrality and hazardous drinking

Differential Patterns of the Division of Parenthood in Chinese Family: Association With Coparenting Behavior

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