Trying to find the quickest way: Employed mothers' constructions of time for food
Trying to find the quickest way: Employed mothers' constructions of time for food
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jneb.2006.08.011
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Wethington, Elaine
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作者：
Jabs, Jennifer;Devine, Carol M.;Wethington, Elaine
目的：本研究旨在了解职业母亲如何为自己和家人安排食物供应的时间。设计：扎根理论方法和半结构化的深入访谈。设置：美国东北部一个约100万人口的大都市区。参与者：有目的地招募了35名低工资就业的母亲，她们的职业、种族/民族、教育、家庭组成和年龄各不相同，使用工作场所、社区、研究方法：采用问卷调查的方法，以方便性和滚雪球抽样为研究对象，对低收入母亲的饮食时间结构进行分析。母亲们描述了3种反映她们如何构建时间的时间风格。时间风格反映了母亲的紧张和时间稀缺的经验，通常的时间管理策略，以及对时间的控制感。母亲优先喂养他们的孩子，但要完成迅速吃饭，以转移到其他Tasks.Conclusions和影响：认识到时间稀缺和个人差异的时间和时间管理策略的问题，可以帮助研究人员更好地了解食物的选择的做法，并协助从业人员确定实际的食物供应策略，低工资就业的母亲。应评估粮食政策和建议与这些母亲面临的时间短缺和工作压力问题的相关性。
Objective: The study sought to develop an understanding of how employed mothers constructed time for food provisioning for themselves and their families.Design: A grounded theory approach and semistructured, in-depth interviews.Setting: A metropolitan area of approximately 1 million people in the northeastern United States.Participants: Thirty-five low-wage employed mothers were purposively recruited to vary in occupation, race/ethnicity, education, household composition, and age using workplace, community, convenience, and snowball sampling.Phenomenon of interest: Low-wage employed mothers' constructions of time for food.Analysis: Interview transcripts were analyzed using the constant comparative method.Results: Most mothers expressed feelings of time scarcity. Mothers described 3 timestyles that reflected how they constructed time. Timestyles reflected mothers' experiences of strain and time scarcity, usual time management strategies, and sense of control over time. Mothers prioritized feeding their children but wanted to complete meals quickly in order to move on to other tasks.Conclusions and Implications: Recognizing issues of time scarcity and individual differences of timestyles and time management strategies can help researchers better understand food choice practices and assist practitioners in identifying practical food provisioning strategies for low-wage employed mothers. Food policies and recommendations should be evaluated for their relevance to the time scarcity and work strain issues that these mothers faced.