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Title: Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Health Behaviors
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Han, Wen-Jui Miller, Daniel P. |
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Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Health Behaviors Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting, April 17-19, 2008. Also: http://paa2008.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=81139 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Alcohol Use; Birthweight; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Family Structure; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Education; Parent-Child Interaction; Risk-Taking; Sexual Activity; Siblings; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use; Welfare; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a large contemporary data set, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLSY-CS), this paper examines the relationship between parental work schedules and adolescent risky behaviors at age 13 or 14, paying particular attention to the mechanisms that may explain this relationship. Structural equation modeling suggests that parental work schedules were associated with adolescent risky behaviors. In particular, increased work at night by mothers was significantly associated with spending less time with children and lower quality of the home environment, and both of these mediators were significantly linked to adolescent risky behaviors. Subgroup analyses revealed that some groups of children (i.e., males, those ever living in single-mother families, and those in families with low incomes) may particularly be affected by mothers working at nights, due to spending less time together, having a lower degree of maternal closeness, and experiencing lower quality home environments. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed. |
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Han, Wen-Jui and Daniel P. Miller. "Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Health Behaviors." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting, April 17-19, 2008. |