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Peer reviewedPistrang, Nancy – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
Interviewed 63 nonworking and 42 working mothers with a first baby to examine the relationship between previous work involvement and the experience of first-time motherhood. Results showed high-work-involvement women tended to report greater irritability and higher costs of motherhood. For working mothers, work involvement was generally unrelated…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Homemakers
