Study Barnett & Baruch (1987): study US 1980
- Public
- Parents with children 4-10, USA, 1980
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 320
- Non Response
- 60 %
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Also mailed questionnaire, weekchart. Parents jointly used a chart to indicate 5 typical week days and for 2 typical weekend days the hours during which the target child and each parent were home and awake; they then indicated the nature of the child- parent interaction that typically occured during each of those hours.Each parent was interviewed in a separate room by a same sex interviewer
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Mothers total interaction time with children
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Parents jointly used a chart to indicate 5 typical week days and for 2 typical weekend days the hours during which the target child and each parent were home and awake; they then indicated the nature of the child- parent interaction that typically occured during each of those hours
- Distribution
- Total interaction time: full-time housewives: M=49,03 SD=11,40 N=80; working mothers: M = 41,87 SD=9,45 N=80; All mothers: M = 44,45 hr per week SD = 11,04 N=160 (data all mothers from BARUC 1986)
- Operationalization
- Number of hours per week the mother spends in intermittent and intensive interaction with child, whether or not the father is present:
1= no interaction: parent and child are engaged in independent activity
2 = intermittent interaction: Parent and child each are doing their own things and interacting periodically
3 = intensive interaction: Parent and child are actively involved together.
Level 1 scores were omitted. Level 2 and 3 interaction scores were combined into a total interaction time score.