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Low‐Income Mothers' Nighttime and Weekend Work: Daily Associations With Child Behavior, Mother‐Child Interactions, and Mood
Author(s) -
GassmanPines Anna
Publication year - 2011
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.1741-3729.2010.00630.x
Subject(s) - mood , work hours , psychology , developmental psychology , fragile families and child wellbeing study , low income , work (physics) , clinical psychology , mechanical engineering , engineering , socioeconomics , sociology
This study investigated low‐income mothers' daily nighttime and weekend work and family outcomes. Sixty‐one mothers of preschool‐aged children reported daily on work hours, mood, mother‐child interaction, and child behavior for two weeks (N = 724 person‐days). Although nighttime and weekend work are both nonstandard schedules, results showed adverse associations of working nighttime hours on family outcomes—more negative mood and mother‐child interactions; less positive child behavior—but no relationship between weekend work and family outcomes.