title: Housework time from middle childhood through adolescence: Links to parental work hours and youth adjustment.
abstract: The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design revealed that girls spent more time on housework than did boys, but that housework time of both girls and boys increased from middle childhood to mid-adolescence and leveled off thereafter. In years when mothers were employed for more hours than usual, girls, but not boys, spent more time on housework than usual. Housework time was linked to more depressive symptoms (at a between-person level) and predicted lower school grades (at a within-person level) for youth with low familism values. Housework time also predicted more depressive symptoms (at a within-person level) for youth with high parent-youth conflict about housework. Findings highlight the gendered nature of housework allocation and the importance of considering both individual and contextual factors when examining youth daily activities. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Chun Bun
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montana State University.
authors.forename: Kaylin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: McHale
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006796:Household Work; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013997:Time Factors