ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2022
Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior.
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- Examining Work Temporality Across the U.S. Latino Population by Nativity and Citizenship.Social indicators research · 2025Article
- Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality.Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association · 2025Article
- Leveraging the science of early life predictability to inform policies promoting child health.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Annual Research Review: The power of predictability - patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Review
- Mothers' Nonstandard Work Schedules and Children's Behavior Problems: Divergent Patterns by Maternal Education.Research in social stratification and mobility · 2023Article
- Older Workers With Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-Being and Job Retention.The Gerontologist · 2022Article
- Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior.Journal of marriage and the family · 2022Article
- Childhood Environmental Unpredictability and Adolescent Mental Health and Behavioral Problems.Child developmentArticle
- Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
Objective: This article estimates the association between maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules in the service sector and child internalizing and externalizing behavior. Background: Precarious work is widespread and characterized by low wages, few benefits, and nonstandard schedules. But working parents, especially in the service sector, contend with unpredictable work schedules as well. These schedules have negative consequences for workers, but may also perpetuate inequality across generations by negatively affecting children. Method: This article takes advantage of novel survey data from The Shift Project, covering 2,613 mothers (surveyed 2017-2019) working in the service sector with children (mean child age of 7.5), to examine the association between maternal work schedules and child behavior as well as the mediators of this relationship. Results: Maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules is associated with children's externalizing and internalizing behavior. Mediation analysis shows that for parents with the most unpredictable schedules, this aspect of job quality operates on children's behavior by increasing household economic insecurity, reducing developmental parenting time, and diminishing maternal well-being. Conclusion: These results demonstrate that work scheduling conditions may have consequences not just for workers themselves but also for their children.
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