{"content":[{"text":"Shift Work and the Parent Child Relationship","bbox":{"left":0.321275,"top":0.130591,"width":0.35752800000000007,"height":0.01849999999999999}},{"text":"Specific Aims \n For men and women in the United States today, the average workday is no longer the \n traditional nine-to-five day shift with evenings left free for family and leisure time. Evening, night and \n rotating shifts have become more and more a part of working life. In fact about 1 in 3 dual earner \n couples in America have at least one member working a non-standard shift (Presser 1994). However, \n the growth in nonstandard work shifts has not been accompanied with a proportionate increase in the \n number of studies devoted to the topic--particularly on effects of maternal nonstandard shift work on \n parent/child relationships. Although the effect of maternal employment on children has been \n researched quite substantially in many aspects, the work schedules of mothers have yet to be taken into \n account in the family literature. \n This study illuminates the connection between maternal nonstandard shift work and the quality \n of the parent/child relationship. I determine whether the type of nonstandard shift (evening, night or \n rotating) matters. Maternal shift work is expected to diminish the quality of the mother/child \n relationship, and that relationship will be mediated by the mental health of the mother and time spent \n with the child.","bbox":{"left":0.093922,"top":0.160652,"width":0.809259,"height":0.443075}},{"text":"Background and Significance \n Shift work has been a relatively understudied topic until recently. What little we know mostly \n involves studies of the marital relationship. We know that shift work may negatively affect marital \n stability, especially in families with children (Presser 2000). Although there is evidence that the \n husband/wife relationship can be affected by nonstandard work hours, no study has directly studied the \n effect of shift work on the parent/child relationship. We can, however, find some indirect evidence \n suggesting that the parent/child relationship may be affected by parental shift work. A study that \n documented the effects of shift work on marital quality found that one of the key problem issues","bbox":{"left":0.093922,"top":0.615197,"width":0.8085910000000001,"height":0.23095500000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}