Study Barnett & Baruch (1987): study US 1980

Public

Parents with children 4-10, USA, 1980

Sample

Respondents

N = 320

Non Response

60 %

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Also mailed questionnaire, weekchart. Parents jointly used a chart to indicate 5 typical week days and for 2 typical weekend days the hours during which the target child and each parent were home and awake; they then indicated the nature of the child- parent interaction that typically occured during each of those hours.Each parent was interviewed in a separate room by a same sex interviewer

Correlate

Authors's Label

Mother's employment status

Our Classification

Distribution

Full-time housewife: N = 80, Working Mothers:  N = 80

Operationalization

0: Not employed (Full-time housewife):
working less than 8 hrs per week
1: Employed (working mothers):
working at least 17,5 hrs a week for at least 3 months prior to the interview

Observed Relation with Happiness