Department of Policy Analysis and Management.
Dev Psychol. 2013 Oct;49(10):1874-85. doi: 10.1037/a0031241. Epub 2013 Jan 7.
Many mothers work in jobs with nonstandard schedules (i.e., schedules that involve work outside of the traditional 9-5, Monday through Friday schedule); this is particularly true for economically disadvantaged mothers. In the present article, we used longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey (n = 2,367 mothers of children ages 3-5 years) to examine the associations between maternal nonstandard work and children's behavior problems, with a particular focus on mothers' night shift work. We employed 3 analytic strategies with various approaches to adjusting for observed and unobserved selection factors; these approaches provided an upper and lower bound on the true relationship between night shift work and children's behavior. Taken together, the results provide suggestive evidence for modest associations between exposure to maternal night shift work and higher levels of aggressive and anxious or depressed behavior in children compared with children whose mothers who are not working, those whose mothers work other types of nonstandard shifts, and, for aggressive behavior, those whose mothers work standard shifts.
许多母亲从事非标准工作时间表的工作（即，工作时间不在传统的周一至周五 9-5 时间段内）；对于经济困难的母亲来说，这种情况尤其如此。在本文中，我们使用脆弱家庭和儿童福利调查（n = 2367 名 3-5 岁儿童的母亲）的纵向数据，研究了母亲非标准工作与儿童行为问题之间的关联，特别关注母亲的夜班工作。我们采用了 3 种分析策略，采用了各种方法来调整观察到的和未观察到的选择因素；这些方法为夜班工作与儿童行为之间的真实关系提供了上限和下限。总的来说，结果提供了一些证据表明，与不工作的母亲、从事其他类型非标准班次的母亲和从事标准班次的母亲相比，儿童暴露于母亲夜班工作与更高水平的攻击性和焦虑或抑郁行为之间存在适度关联。
