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Author: Miller, Daniel P.
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Han, Wen-Jui Miller, Daniel P. |
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Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Depression Health Sociology Review 18,1 (June 2009): 36-49 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd Keyword(s): Children, Mental Health; Depression (see also CESD); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a large contemporary United States data set, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLSY-CS), this paper examines the relationship between parental work schedules and adolescent depression at age 13 or 14, paying particular attention to the mechanisms that may explain this relationship. Analysis based on structural equation modelling showed that increased work at night by mothers was significantly associated with a lower quality of home environment and fewer meals together, and this mediator was significantly linked to increased risks for adolescent depression. In addition, evening work by fathers was significantly associated with lower paternal closeness and this mediator was significantly associated with increases in adolescent depression. In contrast, irregular shifts by both mothers and fathers increased the likelihood of mothers knowing where the child was and this relationship in turn reduced adolescent depression. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Han, Wen-Jui and Daniel P. Miller. "Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Depression." Health Sociology Review 18,1 (June 2009): 36-49.
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Han, Wen-Jui Miller, Daniel P. |
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Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Health Behaviors Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting, April 17-19, 2008. Also: http://paa2008.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=81139 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Alcohol Use; Birthweight; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Family Structure; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Education; Parent-Child Interaction; Risk-Taking; Sexual Activity; Siblings; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use; Welfare; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a large contemporary data set, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLSY-CS), this paper examines the relationship between parental work schedules and adolescent risky behaviors at age 13 or 14, paying particular attention to the mechanisms that may explain this relationship. Structural equation modeling suggests that parental work schedules were associated with adolescent risky behaviors. In particular, increased work at night by mothers was significantly associated with spending less time with children and lower quality of the home environment, and both of these mediators were significantly linked to adolescent risky behaviors. Subgroup analyses revealed that some groups of children (i.e., males, those ever living in single-mother families, and those in families with low incomes) may particularly be affected by mothers working at nights, due to spending less time together, having a lower degree of maternal closeness, and experiencing lower quality home environments. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed. |
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Han, Wen-Jui and Daniel P. Miller. "Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Health Behaviors." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America (PAA) 2008 Annual Meeting, April 17-19, 2008. |
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Han, Wen-Jui Miller, Daniel P. Waldfogel, Jane |
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Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Risky Behaviors Developmental Psychology 46,5 (September 2010): 1245-1267. Also: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/46/5/1245/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Alcohol Use; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Family Structure; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Education; Parent-Child Interaction; Risk-Taking; Sexual Activity; Shift Workers; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use; Welfare; Work Hours/Schedule Using a large contemporary data set (the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth–Child Supplement), the authors examined the effects of parental work schedules on adolescent risky behaviors at age 13 or 14 and the mechanisms that might explain them. Structural equation modeling suggests mothers who worked more often at night spent significantly less time with children and had lower quality home environments, and these mediators were significantly linked to adolescent risky behaviors. Similar effects were not found for evening work schedules, while other types of maternal and paternal nonstandard work schedules were linked to higher parental knowledge of children's whereabouts, which led to lower levels of adolescent risky behaviors. Subgroup analyses revealed that boys, those in families with low incomes, and those whose mothers never worked at professional jobs may particularly be affected by mothers working at nights, due to spending less time together, having a lower degree of maternal closeness, and experiencing lower quality home environments. In addition, the effects of maternal night shifts were particularly pronounced if children were in the preschool or middle-childhood years when their mothers worked those schedules. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed. |
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Han, Wen-Jui, Daniel P. Miller and Jane Waldfogel. "Parental Work Schedules and Adolescent Risky Behaviors." Developmental Psychology 46,5 (September 2010): 1245-1267.
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Miller, Daniel P. |
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Maternal Work and Child Obesity: The Importance of Timing and Developmental Stage Presented: San Francisco, CA, Society for Social Work and Research 14th Annual Conference, January 2010. Also: http://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2010/webprogram/Paper12222.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Maternal Employment; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Background and Purpose – A number of previous studies have found average hours of maternal work over a child's lifetime to be associated with increases in child body mass index (BMI) and the probability that a child is overweight or obese (BMI >=85th percentile). These studies are important in that they help identify an environmental correlate of a prominent public health problem. However, they have left some questions unanswered, namely, whether the association for maternal work depends on children's developmental stage, and whether maternal work affects children's weight contemporaneously or via a lagged effect. Using a variety of analytic techniques, this study attempts to discern whether average weekly hours of maternal work is associated with child obesity outcomes during any of four developmental stage: infancy (ages 1-2), early childhood (ages 3-6), middle childhood (7-10), and late childhood/early adolescence (ages 11-14), and also whether work during any of these period is associated with the same outcomes at a later stage. Methods – The study used data on 6,855 matched mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). I used multiple imputation of missing data to account for missing data due to sample attrition and respondent non-response. Three analytic methods provided successively rigorous causal estimates of the importance of timing and developmental stage: multiple regression with rich controls, residualized change models, and fixed effects models. Each method examined the association between the average hours per week mothers worked during a developmental period, and children's average BMI, the years they were overweight or obese, and the years they were obese (BMI>=95th percentile). Using both continuous and dichotomous outcome measures was important to assess both the statistical and practical significance of maternal work. Results – Results from rich controls and residualized change models were generally comparable, finding significant relationships between average maternal work and the child obesity outcomes within and across most developmental periods; few significant associations were found for the effects of maternal work during infancy. Fixed effects models, which provided the strictest test of causality, found that average maternal work hours were only significantly associated with the number of years a child was overweight or obese during middle childhood and late childhood/early adolescence. No similar associations were found for years obese. These findings suggest that an unobserved factor was likely biasing the results of the rich controls and residualized change models. Conclusions and Implications – This study found that average maternal work at ages 7-10 and 11-14 was significantly associated with an increased contemporaneous incidence of child overweight or obesity. These results inform both future research and anti-obesity interventions. Although much previous research has identified aspects of the environment that are associated with child obesity, few studies have attempted to determine whether developmental stage and timing are important. To the extent that future research can similarly discern which stages of childhood are pertinent to the relationship between other factors and child obesity, interventions can become more effective by tailoring them to children of appropriate age. |
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Miller, Daniel P. "Maternal Work and Child Obesity: The Importance of Timing and Developmental Stage." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Society for Social Work and Research 14th Annual Conference, January 2010. |
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Maternal Work and Child Overweight and Obesity: The Importance of Timing Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32,2 (June 2011): 204-218. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-010-9244-x Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; Television Viewing; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous studies have found that increased work by mothers results in an increased likelihood that children are obese. Building upon this work, this study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement to investigate whether the timing of maternal work matters to this relationship. Fixed effects models found that maternal work at ages 9–11 and 12–14 was related to an increased rate of overweight during the same periods, while work at ages 6–8 resulted in a decreased rate of obesity in the same period and later at ages 9–11, a novel finding. Subgroup analyses found that effects were confined to families who were relatively low income and to children who grew up with single mothers. |
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Miller, Daniel P. "Maternal Work and Child Overweight and Obesity: The Importance of Timing." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32,2 (June 2011): 204-218.
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Miller, Daniel P. Han, Wen-Jui |
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Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight American Journal of Public Health 98,8 (June 2008): 1495-1502. Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/8/1495 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Family Income; Maternal Employment; Obesity; Shift Workers; Weight; Work Hours/Schedule; Work, Atypical Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Objectives. We investigated whether nonstandard work schedules by mothers was associated with adolescent overweight. Methods. We conducted multiple regression analyses using a sample of mother-child pairs (n=2353) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the association between the number of years mothers worked at nonstandard schedules and adolescent overweight at age 13 or 14 years. Separate analyses were also conducted by family income and family type. Results. Child's body mass index increased significantly if mothers worked either a few years or many years at nonstandard schedules. Risk of overweight was also significantly associated with 1 to 4 and 10 or more years of maternal nonstandard work schedules. In both cases, results were driven by those families with predicted incomes in the 2nd quartile ("near-poor"), with a few or many years of nonstandard work schedules also associated with increased risk of adolescent overweight in 2-parent families. Conclusions. Results indicate the importance of the overlooked association between maternal nonstandard work schedules and adolescent overweight at age 13 or 14 years. Nonstandard work schedules among near-poor families and in 2-parent families may disrupt the work-family balance, affecting adolescent overweight. |
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Miller, Daniel P. and Wen-Jui Han. "Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight." American Journal of Public Health 98,8 (June 2008): 1495-1502.
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Miller, Daniel P. Han, Wen-Jui |
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Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, 2008. Also: http://paa2008.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=81137 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Mothers; Obesity; Poverty; Shift Workers; Television Viewing; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Weight; Work Hours/Schedule; Work, Atypical Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the association between nonstandard shift work and overweight in 13 and 14 year-old adolescents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth – Child Supplement, we examine how the number of years of nonstandard work by mothers over the lifetime of her child is associated with changes in body mass index (BMI) and the odds of being overweight. We find a significant, non-linear relationship between the number of years a mother worked nonstandard shifts and both outcomes, independent of a number of covariates. Specifically, working either a few years or many years of nonstandard shifts was associated with increases in BMI and risk of overweight. Moreover, this association is driven by families with incomes that identify them as "near-poor." Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed. |
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Miller, Daniel P. and Wen-Jui Han. "Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, 2008. |