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Title: Social Ecology of Early Maternal Employment: Effects on Verbal Intelligence and Behavior Problems in a National Sample
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Rosenthal, Saul |
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Social Ecology of Early Maternal Employment: Effects on Verbal Intelligence and Behavior Problems in a National Sample Presented: New Orleans, LA, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 1993 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Care; Child Development; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Part-Time Work; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Self-Esteem; Social Environment; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There continues to be a debate surrounding the developmental effects of maternal employment and nonmaternal care during the first year of life. General conclusions are often drawn from small samples, small effect sizes, and without regards to the context within which development is occurring. The present study was designed to explore questions of maternal employment using a social ecology perspective. That is, it is expected that employment effects would be moderated by social context variables. Poverty status at birth and relative maternal intelligence were examined as major social ecology variables. In addition, a number of control variables were included in order to determine the influence of employment within a complex social environment. Results suggest that maternal employment is somewhat related to verbal intelligence outcomes, but only in certain conditions. Verbal intelligence scores for children born below the poverty line and for children born to higher-intelligence mothers were highest for those children whose mothers worked part-time. Differential effects of employment has implications for research and general conclusions that are typically drawn in regards to maternal employment and nonmaternal care. |
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Rosenthal, Saul. "Social Ecology of Early Maternal Employment: Effects on Verbal Intelligence and Behavior Problems in a National Sample." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 1993. |