Citation

Hadzic R, Magee CA, Robinson L. Int. J. Behav. Devel. 2013; 37(4): 332-339.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0165025413477274

PMID

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Abstract

This study examined whether hours of parental employment were associated with child behaviors via parenting practices. The sample included 2,271 Australian children aged 4-5 years at baseline. Two-wave panel mediation models tested whether parenting practices that were warm, hostile, or characterized by inductive reasoning linked parent's hours of paid employment with their child's behavior at age 6-7 years. There were significant indirect effects linking mother employment to child behavior. No paid employment and full-time work hours were associated with more behavioral problems in children through less-warm parenting practices; few hours or long hours were associated with improved behavioral outcomes through less-hostile parenting practices. These findings may have implications for developing policies to enable parents to balance work and family demands.

Language: en