Parental Work Schedules and Children's Cognitive Trajectories

Autor/inn/en	Han, Wen-Jui; Fox, Liana E.
Titel	Parental Work Schedules and Children's Cognitive Trajectories
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 73 (2011) 5, S.962-980 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00862.x
Schlagwörter	Working Hours; School Activities; Mothers; Academic Achievement; Correlation; Well Being; Longitudinal Studies; Reading Achievement; Scores; Mathematics Achievement; Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; After School Programs; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Mother; Mutter; Schulleistung; Korrelation; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm
Abstract	Previous work has shown an association between mothers' nonstandard work schedules and children's well-being. We built on this research by examining the relationship between parental shift work and children's reading and math trajectories from age 5-6 to 13-14. Using data (N = 7,105) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and growth-curve modeling, we found that children's math and reading trajectories were related to parents' nonstandard shifts (i.e., evening, night, or variable). We found that having a mother who worked more years at a night shift was associated with lower reading scores, having a mother work more years at evening or night shifts was associated with reduced math trajectories, and having a father work more years at an evening shift was associated with reduced math scores. Mediation tests suggest that eating meals together, parental knowledge about children's whereabouts, and certain after-school activities might help explain these results. (As Provided).
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