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The Significance of Family, Work, and Power Relations for Mothers' Mental Health

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: The connections among employment and family conditions, gender, and psychological distress are examined using a power relations framework with a sample of mothers. We consider how broader societal conditions impact on mother's lives to differentially shape their opportunities and rewards, and therefore their distress. Employment, as well as income and control, benefit mother's mental health. Single parenthood per se is not a risk factor for distress. Rather, increased childcare strain, the lack of adequate financial resources and the employment opportunities associated with lone-motherhood disadvantage these women.

Source: The Canadian Journal of Sociology

DOI: 10.2307/3341806

Authors: Lorraine Davies, Donna D. McAlpine

Institution: Western University

Language: English

Topic: Work-Family Balance Challenges

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, Gender equality, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W328010442

FWCI: 2.91

Cites: 32

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10