Showing papers by "Toby L. Parcel published in 1991"
TL;DR: The authors examined determinants of the home environments employed mothers provide for their young children, and investigated the impact of current employment experiences, current family conditions, and maternal and child characteristics in shaping children's home environments.
Abstract: This study examines determinants of the home environments employed mothers provide for their young children, and investigates the impact of current employment experiences, current family conditions, and maternal and child characteristics in shaping children's home environments. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's 1986 Mother-Child Supplement, the study focuses on 795 employed mothers with a child aged three through six years old. As work socialization theories suggest, the occupational complexity of mother's work positively affects the home environments mothers provide for their children. In addition, larger family size produces less optimal child environments. The personal resources that mothers bring to their childrearing-self-esteem, locus of control, educational attainment, and age-also have significant effects on children's home environments. Given the importance of home environment for children's cognitive and socioemotional development, these findings suggest pathways by which maternal resources and current occupational and family environments have intergenerational repercussions.
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TL;DR: Maternal mastery was related to fewer reported behavior problems among children and lower involvement with people and higher involvement with things, as well as low physical activity, were related significantly to higher levels of perceived problems.
Abstract: We assess the impact of maternal sense of mastery and maternal working conditions on maternal perceptions of children's behavior problems as a means to study the transmission of social control across generations. We use a sample of 521 employed mothers and their four-to six-year-old children from the National Longitudinal Survey's Youth Cohort in 1986. Regarding working conditions, we consider mother's hourly wage, work hours, and job content including involvement with things (vs. people), the requisite level of physical activity, and occupational complexity. We also consider maternal and child background and current family characteristics, including marital status, family size, and home environment. Maternal mastery was related to fewer reported behavior problems among children. Lower involvement with people and higher involvement with things, as well as low physical activity, were related significantly to higher levels of perceived problems. In addition, recent changes in maternal marital status, including maternal marriage or remarriage, increased reports of problems; stronger home environments had the opposite effect. We interpret these findings as suggesting how maternal experiences of control in the workplace and personal resources of control can influence the internalization of control in children.
94 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that researchers should use representative samples to address many issues and that long-standing interest in the connections between macrolevel and microlevel processes is also central to organizational analysis.
Abstract: We argue that researchers should use representative samples to address many issues and that long-standing interest in the connections between macrolevel and microlevel processes is also central to organizational analysis. Our literature review suggests that designs that link organizations to suborganizational units or members have deficiencies involving atypicalness of cases studied or inadequate and unreliable data on organizations derived from more representative samples of individuals. Instead we
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18 Apr 1991
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TL;DR: Recruitment and Mobility Railways and Timetables Standardization I: Taylorism Standardization II: Training and Education A Market for Migrants Ford and Fordism Crisis, Depression, and the New Deal The New Status of Labor Conclusion Bibliography Index as discussed by the authors
Abstract: Recruitment and Mobility Railways and Timetables Standardization I: Taylorism Standardization II: Training and Education A Market for Migrants Ford and Fordism Crisis, Depression, and the New Deal The New Status of Labor Conclusion Bibliography Index
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