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Morsy, Leila; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2015
Recent developments in employment practices have increased the prevalence of non-standard work schedules--non-daytime shifts in which most hours do not fall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., when shifts rotate, or when schedules vary weekly or otherwise. For example, computer software now enables retail, restaurant, service, and other firms to predict…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Working Hours, Child Rearing, Child Development
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Johnson, Sarah; Li, Jianghong; Kendall, Garth; Strazdins, Lyndall; Jacoby, Peter – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
This study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual families. Child behavior was measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) at ages 5, 8, and 10 in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study ("N" = 4,201 child-year…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Family Work Relationship, Employed Parents, Foreign Countries
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Vassos, Maria V.; Nankervis, Karen L. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Previous research has highlighted that factors such as large workload, role ambiguity, lack of support from colleagues, and challenging behaviour are associated with higher levels of burnout within the disability support worker (DSW) population. The aim of this research was to investigate which factors contribute the most to the prediction of the…
Descriptors: Burnout, Predictor Variables, Stress Variables, Disabilities
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Palmer, Melanie; Rose, Dennis; Sanders, Matthew; Randle, Fiona – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Changes in family and employment patterns have lead to an increasing need for families to balance work and family roles. Little research has examined work and family conflict among teachers. In the present study, 69 New Zealand teachers completed a survey examining occupational-related demands, family-related demands, work and family conflict, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Role Conflict, Dependents
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Hsueh, JoAnn; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Longitudinal data from the New Hope Project--an experimental evaluation of a work-based antipoverty program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--was used to explore concurrent and lagged associations of nonstandard schedules and variable shifts with parental psychological well-being, regularity of family mealtimes, and child well-being among low-income…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Behavior Problems, Low Income, Low Income Groups