title: Relationship between a history of consistent maternal employment and depression in young adults.
abstract: Research on the correlates of maternal employment has yielded inconsistent results. In this study, 79 male and 120 female undergraduates with mothers who had been employed from the students' infancy through their adolescence scored higher on the Beck Depression Inventory-II than those whose mothers had not been employed. This relationship between children's depressive symptoms and mothers' employment history was not evident among young adults whose mothers' employment was perceived to be financially unnecessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ursinus College, 331 Thomas Hall, P.O. Box 1000, Collegeville, PA 19426-1000, USA. cchambliss@ursinus.edu
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chambliss
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Termine
authors.forename: Jenifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Norton
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bahm
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papas
authors.forename: Harris
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Papas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires