Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Risky Behaviors
Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Risky Behaviors
复制标题
DOI：
10.1037/a0020178
复制
发表时间：
2010-09-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Waldfogel, Jane
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Han, Wen-Jui;Miller, Daniel P.;Waldfogel, Jane
使用一个大型的当代数据集（全国青少年儿童补充纵向调查），作者研究了父母工作时间表对13岁或14岁青少年危险行为的影响，以及可能解释这些行为的机制。结构方程模型表明，经常在晚上工作的母亲与孩子在一起的时间明显较少，家庭环境质量较低，这些中介与青少年的危险行为有显着联系。类似的影响没有发现晚上的工作时间表，而其他类型的母亲和父亲的非标准的工作时间表与更高的父母对孩子的下落的了解，这导致青少年的危险行为水平较低。分组分析显示，男孩、低收入家庭的男孩和母亲从未从事专业工作的男孩可能特别受到母亲上夜班的影响，因为他们在一起的时间较少，与母亲的亲密程度较低，家庭环境质量较差。此外，如果孩子处于学龄前或童年中期，母亲上夜班的影响尤其明显。未来研究的影响和途径进行了讨论。
Using a large contemporary data set (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Supplement), the authors examined the effects of parental work schedules on adolescent risky behaviors at age 13 or 14 and the mechanisms that might explain them. Structural equation modeling suggests mothers who worked more often at night spent significantly less time with children and had lower quality home environments, and these mediators were significantly linked to adolescent risky behaviors. Similar effects were not found for evening work schedules, while other types of maternal and paternal nonstandard work schedules were linked to higher parental knowledge of children's whereabouts, which led to lower levels of adolescent risky behaviors. Subgroup analyses revealed that boys, those in families with low incomes, and those whose mothers never worked at professional jobs 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. In addition, the effects of maternal night shifts were particularly pronounced if children were in the preschool or middle-childhood years when their mothers worked those schedules. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed.