Work characteristics and parent-child relationship quality: The mediating role of temporal involvement

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1317-1328

  Roeters, Anne ^a   van der Lippe, Tanja ^a   Kluwer, Esther S ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interaction; Paid work; Parent child relations; Structural equation modeling; Time use

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957244537     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00767.x     Document Type: Article

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