Temperament and maternal employment

• Autor(a) principal: Lerner, Jacqueline V.
• Data de Publicação: 1992
• Outros Autores: Galambos, Nancy L.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2710

This paper explores the relation between child temperament and maternal employment. We view this relation as a sample case of a more general model of person-context relations and we review the literature which has addressed this relation. Children possess different behavioral or temperamental characteristics which affect their interactions with their caregivers. In this regard, children possessing certain temperamental characteristics influence the behavior and attitudes of their employed mothers. In fact, research has shown that a child’s temperament may even influence the mother’s decision to be employed or not. Research has also appraised the behavioral outcomes that result for the child. For example, children whose temperaments are ccdifficultn show less optimal functioning than children whose temperaments are creasy). Methodological limitations of the research which explores the child temperamentmaternal employment link is discussed.