The economic impact of work and family issues: child care satisfaction and financial considerations of employed mothers.
This article introduces the role of financial considerations into work-family research by considering the costs and benefits of employed mothers' child care satisfaction. Data from 2 samples offer empirical support for the addition of a fourth factor to a current measure of child care satisfaction so that the measure reflects mothers' satisfaction not only with caregiver attentiveness, communication, and dependability but also with child care-related financial considerations. This article also discusses relationships between child care satisfaction and work-family conflict and job satisfaction for this population. The results of this study provide both organizations and child care providers with a broader picture of the concerns that employed mothers face as they search for reliable, affordable child care.
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA. lpoms@gmu.edu
Laura Wheeler
LW
Poms
Whitney E
WE
Botsford
Seth A
SA
Kaplan
Louis C
LC
Buffardi
Alison S
AS
O'Brien
D017028:Caregivers; D002654:Child Care; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics*; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009035:Mothers; D014481:United States