Effects of a Workplace Intervention on Parent-Child Relationships

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• Personal Author:
  Casper L ; Davis KD ; Green K ; Kan ML ; Kelly EL ; King RB ; McHale SM ; Okechukwu C
• Description:
  This study tested whether effects of a workplace intervention, aimed at promoting employees' schedule control and supervisor support for personal and family life, had implications for parent-adolescent relationships; we also tested whether parent-child relationships differed as a function of how many intervention program sessions participants attended. Data came from a group randomized trial of a workplace intervention, delivered in the information technology division of a Fortune 500 company. Analyses focused on 125 parent-adolescent dads that completed baseline and 12-month follow-up home interviews. Results revealed no main effects of the intervention, but children of employees who attended 75% or more program sessions reported more time with their parent and more parent education involvement compared to adolescents whose parents attended less than 75% of sessions, and they tended to report more time with parent and more parental solicitation of information about their experiences compared to adolescents whose parents were randomly assigned to the usual practice condition. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Family Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Author Keywords: Parent-adolescent Relationships Children Families Intervention Effectiveness Parental Employment Randomized Trial Work-life Balance Work And Family Workplace Intervention Workplace Studies Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  1062-1024
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; Montana ; North Carolina ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050498
• Citation:
  J Child Fam Stud 2016 Feb; 25(2):553-561
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., Department of Human Development and Family Studies, 114 Henderson, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802
• Email:
  mchale@psu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Child and Family Studies
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:25cecf66384b7722741e24777d105e49d6aaeabe61948e01617652c406ac191f7589bf7c749b6373e7ef355298bc78f7ee6512fc356c5cbf6d81d9ab02562a50
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210817/cdc_210817_DS1.pdf
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