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Title: How Do Family Structure and Family Process Matter? A Comparative Study on the Impacts of Military Deployment and Single Parenthood on Childrens Psychological Wellbeing and School Attendance
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: It is well known that children from single parent families have poorer outcomes, on average, than children from two-parent families. The family processes that produce divergent outcomes are less well understood. Based on data from the 2011-2015 National Health Interview Survey, I leverage the case of military families with deployment and examine the impacts of family structure and family process on childrens psychological wellbeing and school attendance behavior. Using Cronbach's alpha and linear regressions, this study confirms family structure model, as children from military families with deployment and other single-parent families have lower levels of psychological wellbeing than children from two-parent families. Family processes, defined as parental psychological and physical wellbeing, explain away the impacts of family structure; once added, children from military families show similar results as children from two-parent families. These findings suggest that family process explains more variations in childrens mental and school outcomes than family structure.
Url: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cfpr/RC0641/057.pdf
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Authors: Wang-Cendejas, Ruoqing
Conference Name: ISA RC06-41 Conference
Publisher Location: Singapore
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS
Topics: Family and Marriage
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