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Influence of Gender Role Ideology, Socioeconomic Factors, Residential Location, Family Structure and Ethnic Background on Child-Care Arrangements in United Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Child Care; Demography; Education; Family Characteristics; Family Structure; Family Studies; Income; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; Modeling; Racial Differences; Regions; Residence; Sex Roles; Variables, Independent - Covariate Decision-making of parents regarding child-care arrangements has been a continual focus in the literature since the early 1900's. Although gender role ideology has been acknowledged, no study using a large national sample, has examined its contribution to decision-making regarding parental choice of child-care arrangement. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a number of antecedent variables, including gender role ideology on parental choice of child-care arrangement. Three research questions guided the study, first, are there differences associated with selected demographic and family characteristics and parental choice of child-care arrangements? Second, are there differences in gender role ideology associated with choice of child-care arrangement? Finally, are there differences in selected demographic and family characteristics associated with choice of child-care arrangement after controlling for differences in gender role ideology? The data were taken fr om the 1987-1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and was limited to female respondents with children 71 months or younger. A conceptual model was developed which consisted of 15 independent variables, one dependent variable, arrangement (with five categories) and the intervening variable of gender role ideology. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance, crosstabulation and discriminant analysis. Findings from this study indicated that parents with more children and younger children chose parental or relative care and parents with older children chose non-relative or daycare. Those respondents with higher education and income chose daycare and non-relative over other types of care. Race, employment status and region of residence are associated with choice of child-care arrangement and marital status was the strongest predictor of choice. It was concluded that including the variable gender role ideology did make an independent contribution to parental choice of child-care arrangement. Those who exhibited a more traditional gender role ideology were more likely to choose parental or relative care and those with a more contemporary perspective were more likely to choose non-relative or daycare. |
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Kizer, Jean Vaughn. Influence of Gender Role Ideology, Socioeconomic Factors, Residential Location, Family Structure and Ethnic Background on Child-Care Arrangements in United. Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1994. |