Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Maternal employment and child socio-emotional behaviour in the UK: longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
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DOI：
10.1136/jech.2010.109553
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Bartley, Mel
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作者：
McMunn, Anne;Kelly, Yvonne;Bartley, Mel
有年幼孩子的母亲越来越多地将带薪工作与带孩子结合起来。关于母亲就业对儿童影响的经验证据是相互矛盾的，很少有工作在父母双方就业模式的背景下考虑母亲就业的影响。方法采用千禧年队列研究（Millennium Cohort Study）中三个阶段（儿童婴儿期、3岁和5岁）的父母就业数据，研究父母就业与儿童5岁时社会情绪行为之间的关系，而不受母亲教育、母亲抑郁或家庭收入的影响。调查了母亲就业在早期的累积效应。在婴儿出生后的第一年，母亲就业的影响作为一个潜在的“敏感期”被单独研究。结果没有证据表明母亲早期就业对儿童随后的社会情绪行为有不利影响。父母工作对行为结果的影响存在显著的性别差异。对女孩和男孩最有利的工作安排是母亲和父亲都在家中，从事与母亲的教育程度和家庭收入无关的有偿工作。结论产妇早期就业无不良影响。父母工作安排与儿童社会情感结果之间的关系存在重要的性别差异。
Background Mothers of young children are increasingly combining paid work with childrearing. Empirical evidence on the effects of maternal employment on children is contradictory and little work has considered the impact of maternal employment within the context of the employment patterns of both parents.Methods Data on parental employment across three sweeps (when children were in infancy, age 3 and age 5 y) of the Millennium Cohort Study, a large nationally representative prospective birth cohort study, were used to investigate the relation between parental employment and child socio-emotional behaviour at age 5 years independent of maternal education, maternal depression or household income. The cumulative effect of maternal employment across the early years was investigated. The impact of maternal employment in the first year of life was separately examined as a potentially 'sensitive period'.Results There was no evidence of detrimental effects of maternal employment in the early years on subsequent child socio-emotional behaviour. There were significant gender differences in the effects of parental employment on behavioural outcomes. The most beneficial working arrangement for both girls and boys was that in which both mothers and fathers were present in the household and in paid work independent of maternal educational attainment and household income.Conclusion No detrimental effects of maternal employment in the early years were seen. There were important gender differences in relationships between parental working arrangements and child socio-emotional outcomes.