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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Judith Een
dc.contributor.authorBroom, Dorothyen
dc.contributor.authorNicholson, Jan Men
dc.contributor.authorBittman, Michaelen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-22T08:25:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationSocial Science & Medicine, 70(11), p. 1816-1824en
dc.identifier.issn1873-5347en
dc.identifier.issn0277-9536en
dc.identifier.issn0037-7856en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6742-
dc.description.abstractAlarm about the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity has focussed attention on individual lifestyle behaviours that may contribute to unhealthy weight. More distal predictors such as maternal employment may also be implicated since working mothers have less time to supervise children's daily activities. The research reported here used two waves of data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to investigate whether mothers' hours in paid work shape young children's television viewing, snacking and physical activity, and through those lifestyle behaviours, children's weight at ages 4-5 years and 6-7 years. At both ages, children's lifestyle behaviours were interrelated and associated with weight status. Cross-sectional analysis confirmed small, direct associations between longer hours of maternal employment and child weight at age 4-5 years, but not with child's weight measured two years later. In both the cross-sectional and prospective analyses, the children of mothers who worked part-time watched less television and were less likely to be overweight than children of mothers who were not employed or who worked full-time. While associations were small, they remained significant after adjustment for maternal weight, household income and other factors. The combination of direct and indirect relationships between mothers' work hours and the weight status of their young children provides additional support to calls for family-friendly work policies as an important means for promoting healthy family lifestyles and early childhood wellbeing.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Science & Medicineen
dc.titleDo working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhooden
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.01.040en
dc.subject.keywordsSociologyen
local.contributor.firstnameJudith Een
local.contributor.firstnameDorothyen
local.contributor.firstnameJan Men
local.contributor.firstnameMichaelen
local.subject.for2008160899 Sociology not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Social Scienceen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Social Scienceen
local.profile.schoolAdministrationen
local.profile.emailjbrown42@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailmbittman@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20101018-153359en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage1816en
local.format.endpage1824en
local.identifier.scopusid77952551413en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume70en
local.identifier.issue11en
local.contributor.lastnameBrownen
local.contributor.lastnameBroomen
local.contributor.lastnameNicholsonen
local.contributor.lastnameBittmanen
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dc.identifier.staffune-id:mbittmanen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleDo working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhooden
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorBrown, Judith Een
local.search.authorBroom, Dorothyen
local.search.authorNicholson, Jan Men
local.search.authorBittman, Michaelen
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local.identifier.wosid000278035000023en
local.year.published2010en
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