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Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey
Objectives: Parents are often torn between their parenting roles in the family and working roles at the workplace. This study focused on the associations of parental employment with children’s screen time (ST) on weekdays, weekends, and during the entire week. Methods: Unbalanced panel data includin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9870874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36703860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605372 |
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author | Xie, Qian-Wen Luo, Xiangyan Chen, Roujia Zhou, Xudong |
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description | Objectives: Parents are often torn between their parenting roles in the family and working roles at the workplace. This study focused on the associations of parental employment with children’s screen time (ST) on weekdays, weekends, and during the entire week. Methods: Unbalanced panel data including 2,977 children (aged 0–17 years) from five waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 2004 to 2015 were utilized. Two-way fixed effects models were fitted to examine the associations of parental employment status, working hours, and overwork with children’s ST. Results: Compared to unemployment status, maternal formal employment positively predicted children’s ST on both weekdays and weekends, while maternal informal employment was associated with increased children’s ST on weekends. The more hours they worked, the more time their children spent using screens. Neither employment status nor the overwork of fathers was significant. Conclusion: Parental employment, especially maternal employment, was linked with the ST of children. More childcare-friendly labor policies are needed to promote healthy lifestyles among the next generation. |
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spelling | pubmed-98708742023-01-25 Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey Xie, Qian-Wen Luo, Xiangyan Chen, Roujia Zhou, Xudong Int J Public Health Public Health Archive Objectives: Parents are often torn between their parenting roles in the family and working roles at the workplace. This study focused on the associations of parental employment with children’s screen time (ST) on weekdays, weekends, and during the entire week. Methods: Unbalanced panel data including 2,977 children (aged 0–17 years) from five waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 2004 to 2015 were utilized. Two-way fixed effects models were fitted to examine the associations of parental employment status, working hours, and overwork with children’s ST. Results: Compared to unemployment status, maternal formal employment positively predicted children’s ST on both weekdays and weekends, while maternal informal employment was associated with increased children’s ST on weekends. The more hours they worked, the more time their children spent using screens. Neither employment status nor the overwork of fathers was significant. Conclusion: Parental employment, especially maternal employment, was linked with the ST of children. More childcare-friendly labor policies are needed to promote healthy lifestyles among the next generation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9870874/ /pubmed/36703860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605372 Text en Copyright © 2023 Xie, Luo, Chen and Zhou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Archive Xie, Qian-Wen Luo, Xiangyan Chen, Roujia Zhou, Xudong Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title | Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title_full | Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title_fullStr | Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title_short | Associations Between Parental Employment and Children’s Screen Time: A Longitudinal Study of China Health and Nutrition Survey |
title_sort | associations between parental employment and children’s screen time: a longitudinal study of china health and nutrition survey |
topic | Public Health Archive |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9870874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36703860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605372 |
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