ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2017
Child-Care Instability and Behavior Problems: Does Parenting Stress Mediate the Relationship?
Article in Journal of marriage and the family, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Associations Among Childhood Household Income, Latent Classes of Early Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Adolescent Mental Health.Issues in mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Partnership and Parenthood Status in Growing Disparities between Types of Families.Journal of health and social behavior · 2022Article
- Mothers' Work Schedule Inflexibility and Children's Behavior Problems.Journal of family issues · 2021Article
- Non-parental Care Arrangements, Parenting Stress, and Demand for Infant-Toddler Care in China: Evidence From a National Survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Strengthening Social Programs to Promote Economic Stability during Childhood.Social policy report · 2019Article
- Early Childcare Precarity and Subsequent Maternal Health.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
Child care instability is associated with more behavior problems in young children, but the mechanisms of this relationship are not well understood. Theoretically, this relationship is likely to emerge, at least in part, because care instability leads to increased parenting stress. Moreover, low socioeconomic status and single-mother families may be more vulnerable to the effects of instability. This study tested these hypotheses using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (n=1,675) and structural equation modeling. Three types of child care instability were examined: long-term instability, multiplicity, and needing to use back-up arrangements. Overall, findings showed little evidence that parenting stress mediated the associations between care instability and child behavior problems among the full sample. Among single-mother and low-income families, however, needing to use back-up arrangements had small positive associations with parenting stress, which partially mediated the relationship between that type of care instability and child externalizing behavior problems.
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