Single Parents and the Work Setting: The Impact of Multiple Job and Homelife Responsibilities

Burden, Dianne S.

doi:10.2307/584280

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“…Also, single mothers demonstrated several highly stressed and stressful strategies that seemed to emerge from juggling multiple goals for task completion and alternating between different approaches to task performance not seen among married women. These findings are supported by earlier findings of Burden (1986) and Kushnir and Kasan (1993). This may reflect the requirement faced by single mothers to adjust to the new realities of single parenting.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…However, married mothers were slightly above the cut-off of 2.8 for high perceived stress (2.82), but single mothers were slightly below this value (2.75). Single mothers rated considerably lower on overall life satisfaction with a mean of 2.8 versus 3.2 for married women, which agrees with findings by Burden (1986).…”

Section: Sample Descriptionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…By and large, single parent households are female headed, and it is this single parent who must cope with the load and responsibility for household task performance. Single female parents carry a heavy burden without traditional support mechanisms (Albelda et al, 2004) and are found to be more prone to depression and life dissatisfaction, often caused by the stresses of managing job-family pressures (Burden, 1986). Kushnir and Kasan (1993) report single mothers believed their time is very limited and they had less control over their lives because of limited resources.…”

Section: Single Mothers and Household Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there is little difference in budget proportion spent on food, dual-parent households in the U.S. spend more in absolute and relative terms on restaurant meals and convenience foods (Abdel-Ghany and Schwenk, 1993;Ahuja and Walker, 1994;Weiss, 1984). Several studies have noted that single employed mothers spent less time and effort than married mothers on household tasks, especially food-related ones (Burden, 1986;McCracken and Brandt, 1990;Fassinger, 1993;South and Spitze, 1994). Also, in single-parent households, there was more sex-segregated household task assignment to children.…”

Section: Single Mothers and Household Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doing what has to be done: strategies and orientations of married and single working mothers for food tasks

Heslop

Madill

Duxbury

et al. 2007

J of Consumer Behaviour

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Food-related tasks are demanding activities in all households because of their regularity, frequency, and centrality to family activities and relationships. This study develops typologies for food task orientations and strategies used by mothers, and studies the relationships among them. It uses a systems-based framework to examine related inputs and outcomes of these orientations and strategies and compares the situations of married and single mothers. The findings indicate some strategies are more successful than others as predictors of various work-family outcomes.

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Section: Single Mothers and Household Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Single Mothers and Household Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doing what has to be done: strategies and orientations of married and single working mothers for food tasks

Heslop

Madill

Duxbury

et al. 2007

J of Consumer Behaviour

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“…The biggest challenge facing single parent families are financial hardships as only one source of income is usually available. Burden (1988) reported that the need of employment for single parents is to avoid the pitfalls of poverty. In addition to avoiding poverty, she discusses other stresses associated with being the sole breadwinner and parent.…”

Section: Single Parentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-Family Attitudes and Beliefs: Implications for Future Air Force Officers

Johnson¹

2001

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Lone mothers' time allocations: choices and satisfactions

Le¹,

Miller²

2013

Aust J Social Issues

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This paper uses the 2006 Australian Time Use Survey to examine the allocation of time to personal care, employment-related activities, home duties, leisure and child care of lone mothers, in comparison to the time allocations of single women, women in childless couples and partnered mothers. Both primary and secondary time allocations are considered. The satisfactions that women report concerning their current time allocations are also analysed. The time use and satisfaction data are described using both tabulations and multiple regression methods. Lone mothers are shown to have similar time allocations as the other types of households, even though they have different financial and time resources. This raises the concern that lone mothers' desire or need to maintain such time allocations may lead to task overload. Consistent with this, lone mothers are found to be less satisfied with the way they allocate their time than single women and partnered mothers. The tensions associated with time use among lone mothers discussed in the literature are real, and important.

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Single Parents and the Work Setting: The Impact of Multiple Job and Homelife Responsibilities

Cited by 59 publications

References 15 publications

Doing what has to be done: strategies and orientations of married and single working mothers for food tasks

Doing what has to be done: strategies and orientations of married and single working mothers for food tasks

Work-Family Attitudes and Beliefs: Implications for Future Air Force Officers

Lone mothers' time allocations: choices and satisfactions

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