Parents’ Involvement in Childcare Do Parental and Work Identities Matter?

摘要: The current study draws on identity theory to explore mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in childcare. It examined the relationships between salience centrality of individuals’ parental work-related identities extent which they are involved various forms A sample 148 couples with at least one child aged 6 years old or younger completed extensive questionnaires. As hypothesized, were positively related Moreover, maternal was negatively hours childcare share tasks. Finally, work mediated negative time invested childcare, gender moderated this mediation effect. That is, more central a mother’s identity, she worked for pay fewer These findings shed light role pa...