Does the psychosocial quality of unpaid family work contribute to educational disparities in mental health among employed partnered mothers?
| Autor: | Laurie-ann M. Hellsten, Bonnie Janzen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Mothers Validity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Family Social inequality Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine Job Decision Latitude Workplace media_common 030505 public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Equity (finance) Middle Aged Mental health Saskatchewan Cross-Sectional Studies Mental Health Scale (social sciences) Linear Models Educational Status Female 0305 other medical science Psychology Psychosocial Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 91:633-641 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1246 0340-0131 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00420-018-1310-y |
| Popis: | The contribution of unpaid family work quality to understanding social inequalities in women’s mental health has been understudied and further limited by a scarcity of psychometrically sound instruments available to measure family work. Therefore, using a multi-item scale of family work quality with evidence of validity and reliability, the overall aim of the present study was to determine whether psychosocial qualities of unpaid family work contribute to educational inequities in women’s mental health. Study participants in this cross-sectional study were 512 employed partnered mothers living in a Canadian province and recruited from an online research panel. The dependent variable was psychological distress. In addition to a 28-item measure assessing five dimensions of unpaid family work quality, independent variables included material deprivation, job decision latitude, job demands and several measures of the work–family interface. Multiple linear regression was the primary analysis. Compared to women with high school or less, university educated women reported lower psychological distress [b = − 2.23 (SE = 0.50) p = 0.001]. The introduction of material deprivation into the model resulted in the largest reduction to the education disparity (51%), followed by equity in responsibility for unpaid family work (25%), family-to-work facilitation (22%), and decision latitude in paid work (21%). When entered simultaneously into the final model, the association between education and psychological distress was reduced by 70% and became statistically non-significant [b = − 0.68 (SE = 0.47) p = 0.10]. In addition to the more established mechanisms of material conditions and decision latitude to explain mental health disparities, inequity in responsibility for unpaid family work may also play a role. |
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