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Thomeer, Mieke Beth Brantley, Mia Reczek, Rin |
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Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic American Sociological Association published online (26 February 2024). Also: https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241230505 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): COVID-19/Coronavirus Pandemic; Depression (see also CESD); Health Disparities; Health Outcomes; Health, Mental/Psychological; Job Separation/Loss; Parenthood; Parents, Single; Race/Ethnicity; Schooling/Education, Remote; Unemployment; Work Disruption Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents experienced difficulties around employment and children’s schooling, likely with detrimental mental health implications. We analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data (N = 2,829) to estimate depressive symptom changes from 2019 to 2021 by paid work status and children’s schooling modality, considering partnership status, gender, and race-ethnicity differences. We draw on cumulative disadvantage theory alongside strained advantage theory to test whether mental health declines were steeper for parents with more disadvantaged statuses or for parents with more advantaged statuses. Parents with work disruptions, without paid work, or with children in remote school experienced the greatest increases in depressive symptoms, with steepest increases among single parents without paid work and single parents with children in remote school (cumulative disadvantage), fathers without paid work (strained advantage), and White parents with remote school (strained advantage). We discuss the uneven impacts of the pandemic on mental health and implications for long-term health disparities. |
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Thomeer, Mieke Beth, Mia Brantley and Rin Reczek. "Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic." American Sociological Association published online (26 February 2024).
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