It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19
Media and research reports have highlighted the disproportionate burden of home and family responsibilities shouldered by women and mothers due to COVID-19-related school/childcare shutdowns. This cross-sectional study extends this line of inquiry to emerging adults. Our study of 329 diverse emergin...
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| description | Media and research reports have highlighted the disproportionate burden of home and family responsibilities shouldered by women and mothers due to COVID-19-related school/childcare shutdowns. This cross-sectional study extends this line of inquiry to emerging adults. Our study of 329 diverse emerging adults suggests that young women took on more home/family responsibilities than young men amidst the pandemic, and that these duties were associated with symptoms of depression. However, results also indicate that emerging adults who reported greater home/family responsibilities amidst the pandemic also experienced more quality family time, suggesting that pandemic-related challenges may have also been accompanied by opportunities for family connection. Contrary to previous research that has shown home/family responsibilities to be concentrated by SES and race/ethnicity, we found that participants uniformly endorsed COVID-19-related impacts on home/family responsibilities across these demographic distinctions. This could reflect the ubiquity of COVID-19’s impact; across race/ethnicity and class—but differentially by gender—young adults faced significant challenges in taking on new home/family roles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-242e904b2ee44cea96f396bc48f5ec022024-02-23T04:49:16ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402024-02-011510.3389/fpsyt.2024.13304241330424It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19Jessica L. Navarro0Morgan Brown1Todd Jensen2Mariani Weinstein3Michaeline Jensen4Department of Human Service Studies, Elon University, Elon, NC, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, The University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United StatesSchool of Social Work, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, The University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, The University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United StatesMedia and research reports have highlighted the disproportionate burden of home and family responsibilities shouldered by women and mothers due to COVID-19-related school/childcare shutdowns. This cross-sectional study extends this line of inquiry to emerging adults. Our study of 329 diverse emerging adults suggests that young women took on more home/family responsibilities than young men amidst the pandemic, and that these duties were associated with symptoms of depression. However, results also indicate that emerging adults who reported greater home/family responsibilities amidst the pandemic also experienced more quality family time, suggesting that pandemic-related challenges may have also been accompanied by opportunities for family connection. Contrary to previous research that has shown home/family responsibilities to be concentrated by SES and race/ethnicity, we found that participants uniformly endorsed COVID-19-related impacts on home/family responsibilities across these demographic distinctions. This could reflect the ubiquity of COVID-19’s impact; across race/ethnicity and class—but differentially by gender—young adults faced significant challenges in taking on new home/family roles.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1330424/fullfamily responsibilitieshousehold choressibling careCOVID-19gender normsemerging adulthood |
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| title | It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19 |
| title_full | It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19 |
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| title_short | It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19 |
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