How Are Family-Responsive Workplace Arrangements Family Friendly? Employer Accommodations, Parenting, and Children's Socioemotional Well-Being

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2277152
AutoresSarah Beth Este, Sarah Beth Estes (University of Cincinnati, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas637-661
Fecha de publicación2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/tsq.2004.45.4.637
OpenAlexW4232147800
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas69

Family-responsive workplace arrangements, including schedule flexibility, reduced hours, and workplace social support, are often touted as important to employed parents' abilities to balance the simultaneous demands involved in work and childrearing. Empirical evidence regarding this supposition has most often focused on employed parents' perceptions of work-family incompatibility, leaving little understanding of (1) which arrangements are associated with parenting and children's well-being and (2) the process through which these arrangements may be related to these aspects of family life. A stress perspective on the work-family interface suggests that work-family arrangements might be related to parenting and children through the mechanisms of parents' psychological well-being. I use data from a regional sample of employed mothers to investigate this proposition. Findings from path models show that most relationships between arrangements and parenting are direct and unmediated by mothers' well-being and that work-family arrangements are only indirectly associated with children's socioemotional well-being

Developmental psychology · Family Leave · Family life · Family-friendly · Flexibility (engineering) · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Socioemotional selectivity theory · Sociology · Well-being · Work (physics) · Work–family conflict · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges