TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Parental employment and child behaviors: Do parenting practices underlie these relationships?
JO  - International journal of behavioral development
A1  - Hadzic, Renata
A1  - Magee, Christopher A.
A1  - Robinson, Laura
SP  - 332
EP  - 339
VL  - 37
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-0254
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413477274
ID  - ref1
ER  -