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Author: McCartney, Kathleen
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McCartney, Kathleen Rosenthal, Saul |
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Family Mediators of the Effects of Maternal Employment in the First Year of Life Presented: Seattle, WA, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1991 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Child Development; Children; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Family Influences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Mothers; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this study was to examine family mediators of the effects of early maternal employment on preschoolers using data on 1,248 children ages four to six from the Children of the NLSY. The HOME and a factor-based scale for the home environment each mediated the relation between maternal employment and PPVT and between maternal employment and a measure of behavior problems. These data suggest that maternal employment must be considered as one part of a complex social ecology for the young child. |
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McCartney, Kathleen and Saul Rosenthal. "Family Mediators of the Effects of Maternal Employment in the First Year of Life." Presented: Seattle, WA, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1991. |
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McCartney, Kathleen Rosenthal, Saul |
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Maternal Employment Should Be Studied Within Social Ecologies Journal of Marriage and Family 53,4 (November 1991): 1103-1107. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Child Care; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Shyness; Temperament An exchange on Maternal Employment and Young Children's Adjustment. The infant day care controversy began with a provocative paper by Belsky (1986), in which he expressed concerns about the developmental risks associated with extensive nonmaternal care. Critics responded to Belsky's claims (e.g., ClarkeStewart, 1988, 1989; Phillips, McCartney, Scarr, and Howes, 1987; Richters and Zahn-Waxler, 1988) and expressed two methodological criticisms. First, the studies upon which Belsky's claims rested were mostly nonexperimental; potential third variables related to extensive nonmaternal care seemed likely. Second, in virtually none of the studies did researchers consider the role of quality of child care (for an exception, see McCartney, Scarr, Phillips, Grajek, and Schwarz, 1982). |
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Bibliography Citation
McCartney, Kathleen and Saul Rosenthal. "Maternal Employment Should Be Studied Within Social Ecologies." Journal of Marriage and Family 53,4 (November 1991): 1103-1107.
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