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
- Mothers proportional interaction time with children
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- 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
- Distribution
- Proportional interaction time: full-time housewives: M=.63 SD=.63; working mothers: M=.58 SD = .07
- Operationalization
- Proportional interaction time:
the number of hours the mother spent per week in intermittent and intensive interaction divided by the total hours both parents spent in such interaction.
Score: 1 = 0-20% 5, 2 = 20-40%, 3 = 40-60%, 5 = 80-100%