Understanding how family demands impair health behaviors in working sole mothers: The role of perceived control over leisure time
Understanding how family demands impair health behaviors in working sole mothers: The role of perceived control over leisure time
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DOI：
10.1111/aphw.12307
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发表时间：
2021-09-07
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6.9
通讯作者：
King, Danielle D.
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作者：
Calderwood, Charles;Minnen, Molly E.;King, Danielle D.
工作的单身母亲（即，工作的无伴侣妇女）可能会遇到家庭要求提高的情况，这对她们在日常休闲时间追求健康行为构成了障碍。我们的目的是映射的过程中，通过晚上的家庭需求影响闲暇时间的健康行为，在这一优先人群的员工，努力确定干预发展和健康差距减少的目标。进行为期7天的日常调查研究的样本102个工作的单身母亲，我们支持的看法，控制休闲时间作为一个关键的机制，连接晚上的家庭需求，休闲时间的锻炼。此外，我们确定了当前焦点的个体差异（即，倾向于关注当前的经历）作为一个关键因素，改变了晚上家庭需求如何影响对休闲时间的控制，这最终减轻了这些需求对晚上锻炼参与的不利影响。相反，我们没有发现证据支持晚上的家庭需求与休闲时间消费酒精或高糖，高脂肪食物的健康行为之间的关系，通过控制休闲时间。我们讨论了我们的研究结果如何推进关于家庭需求如何影响健康的理论，并为减少工作单身母亲面临的健康差距的实际努力提供信息。
Working sole mothers (i.e., nonpartnered women who work) may experience elevated family demands that impose barriers to pursuing health behaviors during their daily leisure time. We aimed to map the process through which evening family demands influence leisure-time health behaviors in this priority population of employees, in an effort to identify targets for intervention development and health disparity reduction. Conducting a 7-day daily survey study in a sample of 102 working sole mothers, we supported perceptions of control over leisure time as a key mechanism linking evening family demands to leisure-time exercise. Furthermore, we identified the individual difference of present focus (i.e., a tendency to focus on current experiences) as a key factor that alters how evening family demands affect control over leisure time, which ultimately mitigates the detrimental influence of these demands on evening exercise engagement. In contrast, we did not find evidence to support relationships of evening family demands with the health behaviors of leisure time consumption of alcohol or high sugar, high fat foods via control over leisure time. We discuss how our findings advance theory regarding how family demands influence health and inform practical efforts to reduce health disparities that working sole mothers face.