Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Mothers balancing work and family: the associations with emotional well-being, sleep–wake problems and the role of basic needs
Originally published 2024-12-18 · BMC Psychology
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s40359-024-02241-3 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about support that respects autonomy, competence and connection in early motherhood; the original evidence concerns working mothers raising infants and young children in the original study.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What basic needs must be met before a working mother can feel restored?
This reading brings autonomy, competence and relatedness alongside maternal balance, vitality and sleep problems into the kindness pathway. The correlational working-mother survey with latent-variable modeling offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
Working mothers raising infants and young children in the original study
Age / stage: Mothers of children aged 1-36 months
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess basic-need satisfaction and work-family balance?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about associations with vitality, sleep-wake problems, depression and anger?
- What would need to be checked before adopting support that respects autonomy, competence and connection in early motherhood?
Keep the limits in view
Correlational latent-variable models do not establish causal effects; this early-motherhood sample cannot represent all parents or clinical conditions.
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Rosalia Olivieri; Alessandro Lo Presti; Sebastiano Costa; Lucia Ariemma; Marco Fabbri (2024). Mothers balancing work and family: the associations with emotional well-being, sleep–wake problems and the role of basic needs BMC Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02241-3
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