Motherhood, employment and the development of depression

GW Brown, A Bifulco - The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990 - search.proquest.com
GW Brown, A Bifulco
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990search.proquest.com
A prospective inquiry of a largely working-class sample of women with children considers
the effect of employment on risk of developing clinical depression. The hypothesis was that
there would be a direct protective effect arising from employment once quality of other
support was taken into account. In fact full-time working mothers were at high risk. This
appeared to be explained by either prior work strain or a severe event involving
'deviant'behaviour on the part of husband/boyfriend or child. Neither factor was relevant for …
Abstract
A prospective inquiry of a largely working-class sample of women with children considers the effect of employment on risk of developing clinical depression. The hypothesis was that there would be a direct protective effect arising from employment once quality of other support was taken into account. In fact full-time working mothers were at high risk. This appeared to be explained by either prior work strain or a severe event involving ‘deviant’behaviour on the part of husband/boyfriend or child. Neither factor was relevant for part-time workers. The severe events appeared to be particularly depressogenic for full-time workers because they represented either failure in the motherhood role or a sense of entrapment in an unrewarding work/domestic situation. However, those in part-time work had a low rate of onset compared with non-workers, and the difference appears to be related to non-working women feeling less secure about their marriages.
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