Employment commitment as a moderator of the maternal employment status/child behavior relationship
研究发现母亲工作承诺与就业状态是否一致会影响孩子的注意力问题和幼稚行为，不一致时孩子表现更差。
Abstract Research findings suggest that maternal employment exerts no consistent detrimental effects on children. In this study, the moderating role of employment commitment and child sex on the relationship between maternal employment status and child behavior is investigated. Mothers and teachers provided behavioral ratings for 185 elementary school children ( M age = 9.42 years). Employment commitment moderated the influence of employment status on mothers' and teachers' ratings of children's attention problems and immaturity: Children whose mothers' employment status and commitment were not congruent were less attentive and more immature than those whose mothers' employment status and commitment were congruent. The statistical and applied significance of these results is suggested, as is the possibility that mother‐child interactions mediate the manner in which incongruencies between employment status and employment commitment influence children's inattention‐immaturity.