Homemaker role experiences affect toddler behaviors via maternal well-being and parenting behavior
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 21 (2) , 213-229
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00911317
Abstract
A model delineating the relationship between homemakers' role experiences and toddler behavior was developed, and tested using path analysis. We proposed that the relationship between homemakers' role experiences (skill use, perceived financial equity, homemaking satisfaction, and role overload) and toddler's internalizing and externalizing behaviors is mediated by maternal psychological well-being (positive mood, negative mood, and cognitive difficulties) and parenting behavior (positive, punishing, and rejecting). Using confirmatory path analysis, the proposed model fit the data [Q=73, W(34) =47.4; p >.05] obtained from a sample of 187 homemakers. The results suggest that, as for employed mothers, it is important to understand how homemakers experiencetheir role, because those experiences indirectly predict children's behavior.Keywords
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