Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intensive Mothering and Maternal Physical Health

这个项目探讨了密集育儿对健康的影响。 今天，妇女花在孩子身上的时间比过去几十年多得多。养育子女的高成本可能会在对孩子的投资和对自己的投资之间造成紧张。 三个主要的研究问题是解决：1）如何密集的母亲的信念和行为影响产妇的身体健康; 2）如何影响1）不同的社会阶层和就业状况;和3）如何密集的母亲和儿童健康之间的关系是受产妇的身体健康。 研究结果将对正式的卫生政策和更多非正式的孕产妇自我保健倡导产生影响。本研究将使用雅芳父母和儿童纵向调查（ALSPAC）的面板数据进行纵向分析。 这将有助于理清现代孕产、孕产妇健康和儿童健康之间的关系。 该项目将解决过去关于母亲身份、社会阶层和就业状况的相互矛盾的证据。 此外，它将解决最近的争论，在文献中围绕操作密集mothering.This奖反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project explores the health impacts of intensive mothering. Women spend far more time with their children today than in the past several decades. The high cost to parenting may create tensions between investment in children and investment in self. Three principal research questions are addressed: 1) How intensive mothering beliefs and behaviors affect maternal physical health; 2) How the effects in 1) vary by social class and employment status; and 3) How the relationship between intensive mothering and child health is affected by maternal physical health. Findings will have implications for both formal health policies and more informal advocacy for maternal self-care.This study will conduct a longitudinal analysis using panel data from the Avon Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This will allow disentangling of the relationships between modern motherhood, maternal health, and child health. The project will address past contradictory evidence on motherhood, social class, and employment status. In addition, it will address recent debates in the literature surrounding the operationalization of intensive mothering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.