Maureen Perry‐jenkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 650943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Perry‐jenkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry‐jenkin |
| SIGNATURE | JENKIN M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3798-996X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 618 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A coparent intervention to prevent prenatal stress and depression symptoms in families with lower incomes
Father Engagement in Low-Income Families: The Role of Workplace Characteristics and Gender Roles
Life events and postpartum depressive symptoms among Black and Latina mothers: The role of protective factors
Approximately, 15% of women in the United States experience postpartum depression, but Black and Latina women continue to suffer at disproportionately higher rates. While literature has shown that the experience of life stressors is a strong predictor of postpartum depressive symptoms, less research has examined personal and contextual resources that can protect minoritized groups from poor mental health outcomes during the perinatal period. The …
Partner‐inclusive prenatal intervention to promote parenting readiness: Results from a pilot trial
Structural inequities in the United States limit access to prenatal parenting education and supports for many pregnant people and their partners. This pilot trial aimed to evaluate the impact of a novel partner‐inclusive intervention on new parents’ knowledge of developmentally appropriate early parenting practices. Forty‐two participants were assigned to the 6‐week group intervention and 38 participants were assigned to a usual care comparison g…
Workplace Policies and Perinatal Depressive Symptoms Among Low‐Income Single and Partnered Working Mothers
Objective This study examined associations between workplace policies and maternal depression in the context of mothers' relationship status and job characteristics. Background The associations between workplace policies and postpartum depressive symptoms may differ based on contextual factors that have received little attention in the literature. In this study, these questions are addressed in an understudied sample of low‐income working mothers…
Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
In the second decade of the 21st century, research on work and family from multiple disciplines flourished. The goal of this review is to capture the scope of this work-family literature and to highlight both the valuable advances and problematic omissions. In synthesizing this literature, the authors show that numerous scholars conducted studies and refined theories that addressed gender, but far fewer examined racial and class heterogeneity. Th…
Capturing Complexities in Work and Family Theory and Research
Work and Family Research and Theory: Review and Analysis From an Ecological Perspective
This invited review examines major trends and developments in the work and family field from an ecological perspective. We examine how research has developed over the past several decades with attention to the ways in which dominant theories and empirical findings, couched in specific historical and social eras, have moved the field forward and addressed important questions, while also raising many more. We first examine theoretical paradigms and…
Workplace policies and mental health among working-class, new parents
Little research has explored linkages between workplace policies and mental health in working-class, employed parents, creating a gap in our knowledge of work-family issues across social class levels. The current U.S. study addresses this gap by employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how workplace policies and parental leave benefits predicted parents' depressive symptoms and anxiety in a sample of 125, low-income, dual-earn…
Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents
Parents’ Gender Ideology and Gendered Behavior as Predictors of Children’s Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration
Family Work Through Time and Space: An Ecological Perspective
The goal of the current article is to describe how an ecological perspective could further our understanding of the division of labor in families. We consider how social contexts, or “space,” in conjunction with individual, family, social, and historical “time” influence the division of labor in families as well as its consequences for family members' well‐being and relationship quality. Research is examined that explores how social class, race a…
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Fathers' Involvement in Child Care and Perceptions of Parenting Skill Over the Transition to Parenthood
This study explored first-time fathers' perceived child care skill over the transition to parenthood, based on face-to-face interviews of 152 working-class, dual-earner couples. Analyses examined the associations among fathers' perceived skill and prenatal perception of skill, child care involvement, mothers' breastfeeding, maternal gatekeeping, mothers' work hours, fathers' depressive symptoms, and fathers' beliefs about responding to a crying c…
Working-Class Jobs and New Parents' Mental Health
Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in working-class employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents' depressive symptoms in a sample of 113 dual-earner couples interviewed five times across the transition to parenth…
"The Transition to Parenthood and the Reasons "Momma Ain't Happy
No Fun Anymore: Leisure and Marital Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
This study examines changes in leisure patterns across the transition to parenthood for dual-earner, working-class couples, as well as the relationship between leisure and marital quality. To this end, 147 heterosexual couples were interviewed across the transition to parenthood. Findings indicate that during the transition to parenthood, husbands and wives experience an initial decline in leisure, followed by a gradual incline after the wife's r…
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood
No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3-4 months post-natally. Two theoretical approaches - gender theory and economic theory - were used to generate competing hypotheses about the findings. Results revealed t…
Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms. For mothers onl…
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Division of Labor and Working-Class Women's Well-Being Across the Transition to Parenthood.
This study examines the degree to which the division of household and child-care tasks predicts working-class women's well-being across the transition to parenthood. Women completed questionnaires about the division of labor and their well-being before the birth of their first child and upon returning to work. Results showed that violated expectations regarding the division of child care were associated with increased distress postnatally, and th…
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
Work and Family in the 1990s
This review highlights four themes emerging from the work and family literature of the 1990s. The first theme evolves from the historical legacy of the maternal employment literature with its focus on children's well‐being. The second theme, work socialization, is based on the premise that occupational conditions, such as autonomy and complexity, shape the values of workers who in turn generalize these lessons off the job. Research on work stress…
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Divergent worlds: The daily emotional experience of mothers and fathers in the domestic and public spheres
This study compared the emotional states experienced by mothers and fathers during daily activities in the domestic and public spheres. Participants carried pagers for 1 week and reported their states when signaled at random times. Patterns for mothers and fathers differed markedly. Mothers reported more positive states in activities away from home, including during work at a job. These states were related to the perceived friendliness of co-work…
Processes underlying father involvement in dual-earner and single-earner families
Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
In the second decade of the 21st century, research on work and family from multiple disciplines flourished. The goal of this review is to capture the scope of this work-family literature and to highlight both the valuable advances and problematic omissions. In synthesizing this literature, the authors show that numerous scholars conducted studies and refined theories that addressed gender, but far fewer examined racial and class heterogeneity. Th…
Parental monitoring and perceptions of children's school performance and conduct in dual- and single-earner families
L'etude a pour but de montrer que le controle parental peut constituer une explication des problemes scolaires (performance et conduites) des garcons dont la mere travaille
Class, Couples, and Conflict: Effects of the Division of Labor on Assessments of Marriage in Dual-Earner Families
Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Karen Folk, Class, Couples, and Conflict: Effects of the Division of Labor on Assessments of Marriage in Dual-Earner Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 165-180
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood
No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3-4 months post-natally. Two theoretical approaches - gender theory and economic theory - were used to generate competing hypotheses about the findings. Results revealed t…
No Fun Anymore: Leisure and Marital Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
This study examines changes in leisure patterns across the transition to parenthood for dual-earner, working-class couples, as well as the relationship between leisure and marital quality. To this end, 147 heterosexual couples were interviewed across the transition to parenthood. Findings indicate that during the transition to parenthood, husbands and wives experience an initial decline in leisure, followed by a gradual incline after the wife's r…
Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents
Men's Provider-Role Attitudes: Implications for Household Work and Marital Satisfaction
The aim of the current investigation was to link men's provider-role attitudes with their involvement in household tasks. This study examines not only the objective division of work both inside and outside of the home, but also emphasizes the importance of examining the cognitions and affect that men attach to their work and family roles. It was proposed that men holding more traditional attitudes about their duty to provide economically for the …
Parents’ Gender Ideology and Gendered Behavior as Predictors of Children’s Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms. For mothers onl…
Divergent worlds: The daily emotional experience of mothers and fathers in the domestic and public spheres
This study compared the emotional states experienced by mothers and fathers during daily activities in the domestic and public spheres. Participants carried pagers for 1 week and reported their states when signaled at random times. Patterns for mothers and fathers differed markedly. Mothers reported more positive states in activities away from home, including during work at a job. These states were related to the perceived friendliness of co-work…
Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships
The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dual-earner and 50 single-earner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regard…
Work and Family Research and Theory: Review and Analysis From an Ecological Perspective
This invited review examines major trends and developments in the work and family field from an ecological perspective. We examine how research has developed over the past several decades with attention to the ways in which dominant theories and empirical findings, couched in specific historical and social eras, have moved the field forward and addressed important questions, while also raising many more. We first examine theoretical paradigms and…
Family Work Through Time and Space: An Ecological Perspective
The goal of the current article is to describe how an ecological perspective could further our understanding of the division of labor in families. We consider how social contexts, or “space,” in conjunction with individual, family, social, and historical “time” influence the division of labor in families as well as its consequences for family members' well‐being and relationship quality. Research is examined that explores how social class, race a…
The Work-Family Interface and Marital Change Across the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines the effects of work-family interference and support on couples experiencing the transition to parenthood. Correlational relationships between measures of work-family interference and support and assessments of marital change (based on measures taken prenatally and at three- and nine-months postpartum) were examined. The findings suggest that husbands and wives experiencing high levels of work-family interference report an in…
Workplace policies and mental health among working-class, new parents
Little research has explored linkages between workplace policies and mental health in working-class, employed parents, creating a gap in our knowledge of work-family issues across social class levels. The current U.S. study addresses this gap by employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how workplace policies and parental leave benefits predicted parents' depressive symptoms and anxiety in a sample of 125, low-income, dual-earn…
Working-Class Jobs and New Parents' Mental Health
Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in working-class employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents' depressive symptoms in a sample of 113 dual-earner couples interviewed five times across the transition to parenth…
Fathers' Involvement in Child Care and Perceptions of Parenting Skill Over the Transition to Parenthood
This study explored first-time fathers' perceived child care skill over the transition to parenthood, based on face-to-face interviews of 152 working-class, dual-earner couples. Analyses examined the associations among fathers' perceived skill and prenatal perception of skill, child care involvement, mothers' breastfeeding, maternal gatekeeping, mothers' work hours, fathers' depressive symptoms, and fathers' beliefs about responding to a crying c…
"The Transition to Parenthood and the Reasons "Momma Ain't Happy
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
The Work-Family Interface and Marital Change Across the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines the effects of work-family interference and support on couples experiencing the transition to parenthood. Correlational relationships between measures of work-family interference and support and assessments of marital change (based on measures taken prenatally and at three- and nine-months postpartum) were examined. The findings suggest that husbands and wives experiencing high levels of work-family interference report an in…
Processes underlying father involvement in dual-earner and single-earner families
Parental monitoring and perceptions of children's school performance and conduct in dual- and single-earner families
L'etude a pour but de montrer que le controle parental peut constituer une explication des problemes scolaires (performance et conduites) des garcons dont la mere travaille
Men's Provider-Role Attitudes: Implications for Household Work and Marital Satisfaction
The aim of the current investigation was to link men's provider-role attitudes with their involvement in household tasks. This study examines not only the objective division of work both inside and outside of the home, but also emphasizes the importance of examining the cognitions and affect that men attach to their work and family roles. It was proposed that men holding more traditional attitudes about their duty to provide economically for the …
Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships
The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dual-earner and 50 single-earner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regard…
Divergent worlds: The daily emotional experience of mothers and fathers in the domestic and public spheres
This study compared the emotional states experienced by mothers and fathers during daily activities in the domestic and public spheres. Participants carried pagers for 1 week and reported their states when signaled at random times. Patterns for mothers and fathers differed markedly. Mothers reported more positive states in activities away from home, including during work at a job. These states were related to the perceived friendliness of co-work…
Class, Couples, and Conflict: Effects of the Division of Labor on Assessments of Marriage in Dual-Earner Families
Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Karen Folk, Class, Couples, and Conflict: Effects of the Division of Labor on Assessments of Marriage in Dual-Earner Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 165-180
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Work and Family in the 1990s
This review highlights four themes emerging from the work and family literature of the 1990s. The first theme evolves from the historical legacy of the maternal employment literature with its focus on children's well‐being. The second theme, work socialization, is based on the premise that occupational conditions, such as autonomy and complexity, shape the values of workers who in turn generalize these lessons off the job. Research on work stress…
Blue-collar Kin and Community in the Small-town Midwest
This study examines community, kin networks, and family life linkages in a working-class small town. Specifically, household perceptions of community and kin networks obtained from an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town are linked in a second interview study to residents' assessments of their personal well-being and the quality of their family relationships. The simple presence of kin nearby, however, is shown to be unrelated to either …
Division of Labor and Working-Class Women's Well-Being Across the Transition to Parenthood.
This study examines the degree to which the division of household and child-care tasks predicts working-class women's well-being across the transition to parenthood. Women completed questionnaires about the division of labor and their well-being before the birth of their first child and upon returning to work. Results showed that violated expectations regarding the division of child care were associated with increased distress postnatally, and th…
Special Reviewers
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood
No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3-4 months post-natally. Two theoretical approaches - gender theory and economic theory - were used to generate competing hypotheses about the findings. Results revealed t…
Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms. For mothers onl…
No Fun Anymore: Leisure and Marital Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
This study examines changes in leisure patterns across the transition to parenthood for dual-earner, working-class couples, as well as the relationship between leisure and marital quality. To this end, 147 heterosexual couples were interviewed across the transition to parenthood. Findings indicate that during the transition to parenthood, husbands and wives experience an initial decline in leisure, followed by a gradual incline after the wife's r…
Fathers' Involvement in Child Care and Perceptions of Parenting Skill Over the Transition to Parenthood
This study explored first-time fathers' perceived child care skill over the transition to parenthood, based on face-to-face interviews of 152 working-class, dual-earner couples. Analyses examined the associations among fathers' perceived skill and prenatal perception of skill, child care involvement, mothers' breastfeeding, maternal gatekeeping, mothers' work hours, fathers' depressive symptoms, and fathers' beliefs about responding to a crying c…
Working-Class Jobs and New Parents' Mental Health
Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in working-class employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents' depressive symptoms in a sample of 113 dual-earner couples interviewed five times across the transition to parenth…
"The Transition to Parenthood and the Reasons "Momma Ain't Happy
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Family Work Through Time and Space: An Ecological Perspective
The goal of the current article is to describe how an ecological perspective could further our understanding of the division of labor in families. We consider how social contexts, or “space,” in conjunction with individual, family, social, and historical “time” influence the division of labor in families as well as its consequences for family members' well‐being and relationship quality. Research is examined that explores how social class, race a…
Parents’ Gender Ideology and Gendered Behavior as Predictors of Children’s Gender-Role Attitudes: A Longitudinal Exploration
Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents
Capturing Complexities in Work and Family Theory and Research
Work and Family Research and Theory: Review and Analysis From an Ecological Perspective
This invited review examines major trends and developments in the work and family field from an ecological perspective. We examine how research has developed over the past several decades with attention to the ways in which dominant theories and empirical findings, couched in specific historical and social eras, have moved the field forward and addressed important questions, while also raising many more. We first examine theoretical paradigms and…
Workplace policies and mental health among working-class, new parents
Little research has explored linkages between workplace policies and mental health in working-class, employed parents, creating a gap in our knowledge of work-family issues across social class levels. The current U.S. study addresses this gap by employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how workplace policies and parental leave benefits predicted parents' depressive symptoms and anxiety in a sample of 125, low-income, dual-earn…
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (7 works)