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2013

Academic achievement

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Mothers' Work-To-Family Conflict And Children's Academic Achievement: Do School Involvement And Work Status Matter?, Hayley Maria Holladay Mar 2013

Mothers' Work-To-Family Conflict And Children's Academic Achievement: Do School Involvement And Work Status Matter?, Hayley Maria Holladay

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Structural equation modeling was used to explore associations between maternal work-to-family conflict, maternal involvement in schooling, and academic outcomes in early adolescents. Among a subsample of 725 fifth graders (and their employed mothers and teachers) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD), multigroup analyses were used to explore differences in this relationship between groups with mothers working part-time versus full-time. Results revealed that among part-time employed mothers maternal involvement in school fully mediated the relationship between maternal work-to-family conflict and fifth graders' academic achievement. …