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Title: Family Mediators of the Effects of Maternal Employment in the First Year of Life
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1. McCartney, Kathleen
Rosenthal, Saul
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.