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Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers

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ID11344665
AuthorsKaycee L Bills (0000-0002-3457-3398, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), Stacia West (0000-0001-8806-2318, University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Stacia Michelle West, Jami Hargrove (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Year2019
Volume46
Issue1
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0191-5096 • E-ISSN: 0191-5096
PublisherWMU Department of Occupational Therapy (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15453/0191-5096.4107
OpenAlexW2948293606
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited18

As the affordable housing shortage proliferates, more American households struggle with high housing cost burdens. Grounded in Belsky’s (1984) parenting stress framework, we use a weighted low-income sample from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mothers who rent their homes (N=388) to investigate a relationship between housing cost burden, or paying a substantial portion of income toward housing, and higher rates of reported maternal stress. Findings of the linear regression indicate that younger mothers and those paying 30% or more of their income each month toward rent have higher reported maternal stress scores. These findings are discussed with attention to practice and policy implications

Affordable housing · Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Labour economics · Low income · Sample (material · Socioeconomics · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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