Study Barnett & Baruch (1987): study US 1980
- Public:
- Parents with children 4-10, USA, 1980
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 320
- Non Response:
- 60 %
- Assessment:
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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
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- 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
Working mother : M = 5,44
Difference -0,15