Date of Award

Fall 2002

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

Program/Concentration

Psychology

Committee Director

Debra A. Major

Committee Member

Glynn D. Coates

Committee Member

Barbara A. Winstead

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P65 C55 2002

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of chronic childhood asthma on mothers' employment. The participants included 287 mothers, 143 with asthmatic children and 144 with children without any limiting conditions, who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1998. It was hypothesized that when compared to mothers of children with no limiting health conditions, mothers of children with asthma would be less likely to work at all, would be more likely to work part-time, would work fewer hours per week, would be more likely to lose time from work and would have more lost time from work. In addition, it was hypothesized that family support would be positively related to all mothers' employment and negatively related to lost time from work. A series of hierarchical regressions were performed in order to test the hypotheses. One of the hypotheses was supported: mothers of asthmatic children were less likely to be employed at all. Limitations, directions for future research and conclusions are discussed.

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DOI

10.25777/rkcw-ah45

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