Childcare subsidy receipt and reduced emotional neglect: Examining parents' enhanced self-efficacy as a mediator

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Abuse & Neglect Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107184

Olivia D. Chang , Kathryn Maguire-Jack , Katherine E. Marçal , Kathryn Showalter , Yanghyun Park , Rujeko O. Machinga-Asaolu , Eric Thibodeau , Catherine A. Murphy , J. Bart Klika

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Abstract

Background

Each year 1.5 million children receive childcare subsidized under the Child Care and Development Fund, which supports working parents with low income in affording childcare; such policies hold promise for reducing child neglect.

Objective

The current study sought to examine how receiving childcare subsidies might reduce emotional neglect by supporting working parents' self-efficacy.

Participants and setting

Data came from the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) which oversampled births to unmarried mothers in large U.S. cities. The current study focused on the third wave of the study, when focal children were age three, and when many parents were using childcare.

Methods

The associations between childcare subsidy receipt, parent self-efficacy, and emotional neglect were analyzed with path modeling using a structural equation modeling framework. Furthermore, we estimated the indirect effect of subsidy receipt on emotional neglect via parent self-efficacy.

Results

Receipt of the childcare subsidy was significantly associated with decreased emotional neglect (b = –1.24, p = .045) and increased parent self-efficacy (b = .16, p = .004). Self-efficacy was significantly associated with decreased emotional neglect (b = –1.27, p < .001). The path model results showed a significant mediating effect of self-efficacy on the link between receipt of the childcare subsidy and emotional neglect (b = –.20, p = .01).

Conclusions

The present study highlights the potential for increasing access to affordable, high-quality childcare to improve parent and child well-being. Subsidies that increase access to high-quality childcare can benefit both mothers and children.

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领取托儿津贴与减少情绪忽视：父母自我效能感增强的中介检验。

背景：每年有150万儿童获得儿童保育和发展基金的托儿补贴，该基金支持低收入的工作父母负担托儿费用；这些政策有望减少对儿童的忽视。目的：本研究旨在探讨领取托儿补贴如何通过支持在职父母的自我效能感来减少情绪忽视。参与者和环境：数据来自未来家庭和儿童福利研究（FFCWS），该研究对美国大城市未婚母亲的生育进行了抽样调查。目前的研究集中在研究的第三波，当焦点儿童三岁时，当许多父母使用托儿服务时。方法：采用结构方程模型框架，采用路径模型对领取托儿补贴、父母自我效能感与情绪忽视的关系进行分析。此外，我们还通过父母自我效能感来评估补助收入对情绪忽视的间接影响。结果：领取托儿补贴与情绪忽视减少（b = -1.24, p = 0.045）和父母自我效能感增加（b = 0.16, p = 0.004）显著相关。自我效能感与情绪忽视的减少显著相关（b = -1.27, p < 0.001）。路径模型结果显示，自我效能感在领取托儿补贴与情绪忽视之间的关系中起着显著的中介作用（b = -）。20, p = 0.01)。结论：本研究强调了增加负担得起的高质量托儿服务的潜力，以改善父母和儿童的福祉。增加获得高质量儿童保育机会的补贴可以使母亲和儿童都受益。

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Child Abuse & Neglect Multiple-

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7.40

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10.40%

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397

期刊介绍： Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.