Doctoral Dissertation Research; Family-Responsive Workplace Policies, Parenting, and Children's Well-Being

博士论文研究；

基本信息

批准号：
9810953
负责人：
Jennifer Glass
金额：
$ 0.74万
依托单位：
University of Iowa
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1998-09-01 至 2000-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810953&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Family Responsive

项目摘要

This Dissertation Improvement research project examines the relationship between employment conditions and family functioning. Although dual-earner families are quickly replacing the traditional breadwinner-housewife family model, widespread changes in the conditions of employment have not accompanied families' increasing wage-earning responsibilities. However, some employers have adopted family-responsive workplace policies, such as flexible scheduling, reduced work hours, and family-supportive environments, which are designed to alleviate the work/family incompatibility that employed parents face. Although some evidence exists to support the assertion that these policies do serve to mitigate parental distress deriving from work/family incompatibility, little is known about how these policies affect family processes - in particular, parenting behaviors and children's outcomes. In this study, various concepts associated with role theory are used to relate family-responsive policies to parental outcomes, parenting behaviors, and children's outcomes. A random sample of approximately 80 Midwestern dual-earner couples with children will provide the data. Interviews utilizing established measures as well as new measures and open-ended questions will be conducted. Multiple regression will be the primary analysis technique; the open-ended questions will allow for qualitative data analysis as well. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists.

该论文改进研究项目研究了就业条件与家庭功能之间的关系。尽管双锻炼者家庭正在迅速取代传统的养家糊口家庭模式，但就业条件的广泛变化并未伴随着家庭增加的薪水责任。但是，一些雇主采用了家庭响应的工作场所政策，例如灵活的安排，减少工作时间和家庭支持环境，这些环境旨在减轻雇用父母面临的工作/家庭不兼容。尽管存在一些证据来支持这样的断言，即这些政策确实有助于减轻工作/家庭不兼容的父母苦恼，但对于这些政策如何影响家庭过程，尤其是育儿行为和儿童成果，知之甚少。在这项研究中，与角色理论相关的各种概念用于将家庭响应政策与父母的结果，育儿行为和儿童的结果联系起来。与儿童的大约80个中西部双收入夫妇的随机样本将提供数据。利用已建立措施以及新措施和开放式问题的访谈将进行。多重回归将是主要分析技术；开放式问题也将允许定性数据分析。除了研究要实现的科学收益外，该奖项还将有助于一位备受希望的学生完成博士学位的研究。论文。因此，它有助于对下一代社会科学家进行彻底培训。