Negative maternal work-family spillover and adolescent outcomes: The moderating role of paternal involvement

Catherine Kelly Buckley, Purdue University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore paternal involvement as a moderator of the potential associations between negative maternal work-family spillover and adolescent outcomes. Specifically, mother, father, and adolescent reports of paternal involvement were examined as a moderator of the relationship between mothers' reports of their feelings of negative work-family spillover and mother, father, and adolescent reports of positive (prosocial behavior, school engagement, hope) and negative outcomes (internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior) adolescent outcomes. Data were taken from Wave 2 of the Flourishing Families Project, from which 233 mothers and fathers were included along with their adolescent child (mean age = 12.29-years-old, SD = .97 years). Regression analysis did reveal one significant finding related to the connection between maternal spillover and one adolescent outcome. Specifically, as mothers reported increased feelings of negative work-family spillover, adolescents reported decreased levels of prosocial behavior. Additionally, main effects for mother, father, and adolescent reports of paternal involvement on various adolescent outcomes were also found. However, paternal involvement was not found to moderate the relationship between negative maternal work-family spillover and adolescent outcomes.

Degree

Ph.D.

Advisors

Sprenkle, Purdue University.

Subject Area

Developmental psychology|Individual & family studies

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