Leach Dinh Cooklin 2019

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The current study used five waves of longitudinal data from the ‘Kindergarten cohort’ of Growing up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). LSAC is an omnibus study of children’s health and development, assessing a wide range of child, parent and environmental variables using validated, brief measures.

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This study used a large collection of data that was gathered over years from Australian families with children from kindergarten 4-5 years of age till 13-15 years. Data was collected in ‘waves’ to study the children’s mental health and development based on familial and environmental factors.

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Bio-developmental frameworks of healthy child development posit that children’s family environments are as critical to developmental outcomes as adequate nutrition, and safe physical environments. Relationships that are responsive, nurturing and stable foster pro-social behaviours that promote growth and development, buffering from other risks.

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A healthy child’s development needs a healthy familial environment as much as they need a heathy diet and safe spaces. Children’s relationships and the relationships they witness that are healthy and demonstrate positive behaviours influence the child to demonstrate their own positive social setting, growth, development, and positive mental health.

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This column shows that each additional occasion of work family conflict was associated with higher psychological distress scores, lower marital satisfaction, and more irritable parenting. The second column in Table 3 shows that, in turn, poorer parent mental health, lower marital satisfaction (to a lesser extent) and a more irritable parenting style were all associated with poorer outcomes for children at wave 5.

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The results from the experiment on how work family conflict influences the parents includes: higher stress, more marital issues, and irritable parenting/interactions towards children. It also shows that a parent’s poor mental health and irritable parenting lead to a more negative outcomes for the children once they have reached age 13-15 (wave 5).

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This is consistent with the idea of a ‘loss spiral’ in resources—that there is an accumulation of negative impacts over time as work–family conflict places strains on families that continue to compound, with measurable adverse effects on children’s mental health. It is not consistent with the idea that parents and families ‘adapt’ to experiences of work–family conflict, and ‘acclimatise’ to these conditions after an initial period of adjustment.

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Researchers find from this experiment that the results have been consistent with the idea that the negative impacts from work family conflicts places strains on families, especially children’s mental health. It disproves the idea that these families will get used to these work family conflicts and acclimate to these conditions.

It should be followed up with how it effects children’s social experiences and show results from the education system (both from when they are children and once they have reached adulthood) to see if there are any lasting impacts. It would also be interesting to see if the results are different post COVID-19 and if they change depending on country or if results remain consistent.  

I mostly understood everything in the paper. I did find reading the results tricky, especially trying to understand the results/data on their own which used more technical language.