Nonstandard parental employment schedules and father involvement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2172330
AutoresMatthew Weinshenker (0000-0002-6437-6109)
Ano2016
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas396-413
Data de publicação2016-08-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunity Work & Family (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13668803.2015.1074544
OpenAlexW2175485820
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas20

This study assesses the impact of nonstandard employment schedules (shift work) on parenting among US fathers of young children in dual-earner couples. The outcomes examined include total caregiving, caregiving without the mother present, and the elements of father involvement proposed by Pleck: positive engagement, warmth, and control. Models with latent variables and with lagged dependent variables are estimated using three waves of nationally representative data from the Early Child Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort. The results indicate that employment scheduling mainly shapes the context in which involvement takes place. Compared to dual-earner couples who are each employed during the day, fathers in couples in which at least one parent has a nonstandard schedule tend to care for their children more in the mother's absence. To a more limited extent, they also do more caregiving overall. These effects are most conclusively found when the father works during the day and the mother works during the evening, when the mother works during the day but the father works a night, split, rotating, or other shift, and when both parents have nonstandard schedules. Parental work schedules, however, have little impact on father involvement aside from care

Child care · Cohort · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Economics · Evening · Labour economics · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Paid work · Sociology · Work (physics · Work schedule · Working hours · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Demography