School and school activity schedules affect the quality of family relations: a within-couple analysis |
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| Authors: | Rosalind Chait Barnett Karen C Gareis Robert T Brennan |
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| Institution: | 1. Women's Studies Research Center , Brandeis University , Mailstop 079, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA, 02453-2720, USA;2. School of Public Health , Harvard University , Boston, MA, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we focus on community resources – specifically, children's school and school activity schedules, or school resource fit (SRF) – as a contextual variable influencing family-role quality (FRQ) among employed parents of school-aged (grades K-12) children in a sample of 58 Boston-area couples (N=116). We found that SRF is a significant predictor of parent-role quality (PRQ) and marital-role quality (MRQ) for mothers, but not fathers. Further, for mothers, the relationship between SRF and each FRQ indicator was mediated by the other FRQ indicator. There was no evidence of crossover effects of one partner's SRF on the other partner's FRQ. |
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| Keywords: | school resource fit parent-role quality marital-role quality within-couple analysis community |
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