Employed Mothers' Worker Ideology and Social Support Network Composition

Bibliographic Data

ID4670563
AuthorsTanya Mudry (0000-0002-5153-0445, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,, corresponding author), Kaysi Eastlick Kushner (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Anne Neufeld (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Year2010
Volume20
Issue7
Pages905-921
Publication date2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732310364221
PMID20220149
OpenAlexW2133174132
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited62

The purpose of this ethnographic study was to examine employed mothers' social support network composition in relation to their orientation to worker ideology. A reanalysis of data from two longitudinal, interview studies was conducted. Ecomaps were developed to depict women's social support network composition, revealing five types of support sources: household family, nonhousehold family, friends and neighbors, workplace, and formal services. A typology of diverse, restricted, and mixed networks, reflecting patterns in availability, consistency, and types of support sources, was identified and analyzed in relation to women's orientation to worker ideology. Women with innovator or conformist orientations to worker ideology tended to have mixed or diverse networks. Women with a conformist orientation did not utilize formal services but tended to have a supportive workplace. Most of the women who transitioned into an innovator orientation had available, consistent support, most notably from household family

Ethnography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social support · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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