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After the Baby: Work‐Family Conflict and Working Mothers' Psychological Health
Author(s) -
Marshall Nancy L.,
Tracy Allison J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00560.x
Subject(s) - psychology , family conflict , depressive symptoms , work–family conflict , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , work (physics) , psychiatry , anxiety , mechanical engineering , engineering
This study examines work and family characteristics and depressive symptomatology among over 700 working mothers of infants. Working mothers in poorer quality jobs, as well as working mothers who were single or whose infant's health was poorer than that of other infants, reported greater depressive symptomatology. The effect of job quality on depressive symptomatology was mediated by work‐family conflict, whereas infant health and marital status had direct effects on depressive symptomatology.