The phenomenon of Covid 19 pandemic that has been going on since 2020 has brought changes in our society, including the demands put on working mother that needs to help with household needs and ...working as employee as well. This study conducted to examine the effect of patience on working mother’s stress level during the Covid 19 pandemic. The sampling techniques used was non-probability samping with total respondents of 244 working mothers. Literature review was conducted in collecting data to build a foundation concept of patience in Islam and the construct validity was conducted with quantitative approach. The results showed a significant effect of patience on stress by 9% with significance value of 0.000 (p<0.05).
Fenomena pandemi Covid 19 yang telah berlangsung sejak tahun 2020 silam memberikan perubahan termasuk dalam bertambahnya tuntutan peran Ibu dalam memenuhi kebutuhan rumah tangga dan bekerja sebagai karyawan. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menguji pengaruh sabar terhadap stres pada ibu bekerja selama pandemi Covid 19. Teknik pengambilan sampel dilakukan melalui non-probability sampling dengan total responden penelitian terdiri dari 244 ibu bekerja. Studi kepustakaan dilakukan dalam mengumpulkan data dalam membangun konsep sabar dalam Islam dengan pengujian validitas secara kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pengaruh signifikan dari sabar terhadap stres sebesar 9% dengan nilai signifikansi 0.000 (p<0.05).
The role of mental health is crucial in maintaining the dynamism and productivity of any given society. In contemporary times, a significant proportion of the workforce is comprised of women and ...mothers. Working in healthcare facilities, where exposure to pathogenic agents is an everyday nuisance, can have detrimental effects on mothers' stress and anxiety levels. Furthermore, such exposure can also endanger the health of both the family and society. Conversely, the employment of mothers could positively impact their social well-being. The primary objective of this study is to assess and compare the stress, anxiety, and social well-being scores of mothers employed in healthcare facilities and stay-at-home mothers during the COVID pandemic.
This study is a cross-sectional analysis of 246 mothers, equally divided into two groups: Mothers who work in health centers and stay-at-home mothers (123 individuals in each group). The study was conducted from 2021 to 2022, a multistage sampling method was utilized and two questionnaires were administered: The DASS 21 (21 questions) and the social well-being questionnaire (48 questions). The data were analyzed using SPSS 18, and descriptive and analytical tests (Independent Samples T-Test, Mann-Whitney) were employed.
The mean age was 35.7 ± 7.1 for working mothers and 34.3 ± 6.3 for stay-at-home mothers. The average stress score for employed mothers was 5.72 ± 4.7, and for stay-at-home mothers, it was 7.16 ± 4.3, which indicates a statistically significant difference in stress levels between the two groups (
= 0.04). However, the two groups had no significant difference in the mean anxiety score (
= 0.08). The mean score for social well-being was 165.5 ± 18.4 for working mothers and 162.17 ± 21.2 for stay-at-home mothers. This difference was not statistically significant (
= 0.18). Except for the social acceptance dimension (
= 0.003), no statistically significant differences were observed in the social well-being dimension between the two groups.
The social acceptance of working mothers appears to be greater than that of stay-at-home mothers. Higher social acceptance suggests that they hold a more positive outlook on people and are at ease in social situations, which may have helped to alleviate their stress and anxiety.
Abstract Background Working mothers are in a situation where they have to manage both their job and maternal roles simultaneously. We aim to show the relationship between mothers' breastfeeding ...behavior and working status, as well as the effect of their working conditions on the continuation of breastfeeding. Methods This study examined 3557 (weighted 3490) child-mother pairs from Turkey's Demographic Health Survey data in 2008, 2013, and 2018 with a complex sample multiple logistic regression analysis to explore the relationship between breastfeeding and maternal employment. Results In our study, 35.5% of the mothers had never worked, 18.6% were still working, and 45.9% had worked in the past but were not currently working. When breastfeeding percentages were examined based on maternal working status, mothers who worked in 2008 had significantly lower breastfeeding percentages than those who had never worked or had worked previously but not currently. In both 2013 and 2018, after legal regulations, maternal employment didn't affect breastfeeding. After adjusting for confounding factors, maternal employment in the industry sector had lower breastfeeding percentages AOR:0.06 (95% CI: 0.01–0.48) than those working in agriculture. Conclusion It seems that adhering to legal regulations such as paid maternity leave and lactation leave can promote breastfeeding. It is necessary to raise awareness of mothers working in the industry about the continuation of breastfeeding and to monitor their legal rights.
Previous studies have suggested that a toddler stunting is closely related to maternal characteristics. Working mothers, as a group, are vulnerable to having a stunted toddler. The present research ...aimed to analyze factors related to stunting incidence in toddlers with working mothers in Indonesia. The study sampled 44,071 toddlers with working mothers. The final stage used a multinomial logistic regression test. The study found that working mothers living in rural areas have a higher probability of having stunted or severely stunted toddlers. Maternal age partially affects the incidence of stunted toddlers in Indonesia. Mothers in the ≤19 age group are 1.461 (95% CI 1.140-1.872) times more likely than those in the ≥45 group to have a severely stunted toddler. Those who were never married were 1.433 (95% CI 1.006-2.043) times more likely than those who were divorced/widowed to have a severely stunted toddler. A married mother was 0.734 (95% CI 0.617-0.872) times less likely to have a severely stunted toddler than a divorced/widowed mother. Better education is protective against working mothers having stunted toddlers. Moreover, the present study found that the toddler's age determined the incidence of stunted toddlers. This study concluded that there are five variables related to stunting incidence in toddlers with working mothers in Indonesia: residence, age, marital status, education, and toddler age.
Abstract This study examines the subjectification of working mothers through the lens of intersectionality by listening to the under‐represented voices of those whose lives are shaped at the ...intersections of gender, poverty, Islam, and Javanese ethnicity. Drawing on poststructuralist feminist discourse analysis, the subtle subjectification process is observed through conversational interactions in which working mothers construct the ‘ideal woman’. The findings challenge the predominant postfeminist framing in the extant literature by illustrating how here working mothers draw on a specifically local discourse (i.e., moderate‐Islam and Javanese cultural discourses) to construct the ideal woman as embodying the dual wife‐mother identities. Based on these locally dependent discourses, working mothers accentuate their identity as wives while subduing identities as mothers and workers. The emphasis on the underexplored wife identity imbues work with a distinct significance for mothers within this context.
Even though the pandemic has ended, working mothers face challenges in achieving work-family balance so that children's character education goes well. This paper looks at the effect of Work-Family ...Balance (WFB) and burnout on working mothers in carrying out character education for children after the COVID-19 pandemic. The method used is a quantitative method with a survey design. Data was collected from distributing questionnaires on the Google form filled in by female lecturers at the Islamic University in Indonesia. The findings of this study indicate that there is an effect of WFB and burnout on post-pandemic children's character education. Female lecturers at Islamic universities can be categorized as working mothers who can achieve WFB and educate their children well so there are no born-outs. This research shows that even as working mothers, lecturers at an Islamic university can carry out their role in children's education well.
Parental self-efficacy merupakan prediktor penting yang memengaruhi perilaku positif orang tua dalam melakukan pengasuhan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pelatihan smart parenting ...terhadap peningkatan parental self-efficacy ibu bekerja yang memiliki anak di bawah tiga tahun. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan eksperimen kuasi the untreated control group design with dependent pretest and posttest samples. Sebanyak 14 partisipan terbagi menjadi kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol. Parental self-efficacy diukur menggunakan skala SEPTI-TS. Hasil analisis data menggunakan Mann-Whitney U menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan parental self-efficacy (ρ=0,002) pada kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol, dan berdasarkan Wilcoxon sign rank test menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan parental self-efficacy pada partisipan kelompok eksperimen (ρ=0,018). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelatihan smart parenting dapat meningkatkan parental self-efficacy ibu bekerja yang memiliki anak di bawah tiga tahun.
Introduction: The benefits of exclusive breast feeding are well-documented; however, in Indonesia, breast feeding rates fall well below global recommendations. One of the factors contributing to the ...low breast-feeding rates is the economic need for many mothers to work and workplaces not providing an adequate environment in which to do so. The aim of the research was to explore the meaning of breastfeeding self-efficacy from the working mothers’ perspective.Methods: The methodology is phenomenology; hence, it is qualitative in nature. The study was conducted in an outpatient’s department in a hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia. Participants: 8 working mothers working outside the home 40 hours a week, attend lactation class, Indonesian, children ages 7 months to 2 years, and baby born healthy.Results: There were six main themes identified in the women’s stories that related to self-efficacy and breastfeeding: 1) the source of breastfeeding self-efficacy, 2) the benefits of breastfeeding, 3) another woman's experience, 4) perception of workplace control, 5) estimated ability of self-confidence, and 6) decision of breastfeeding. The participants who decided to breastfeed for at least two years tended to think positively about breastfeeding.Conclusion: The women had realistic expectations of the commitment that breastfeeding entailed even though they were faced with many workplace obstacles.
There are clear differences in labour force participation rates of women of immigrant origins, both first and second generation, across a range of European countries. Many of these differences, ...particularly for women with low participation rates, are not fully explained in existing studies. I argue that to better understand differences in labour force participation, and the role of 'culture' in shaping them, we need to take account of the context provided by previous generations of women. While mothers may transmit expectations regarding participation directly to their daughters through intergenerational transmission and childhood socialisation, mothers-in-law may also be important in indirectly influencing their daughters-in-law through their sons' behaviours and attitudes. Using the UK large-scale household panel study Understanding Society, the contribution of this paper is to investigate the 'mother-in-law effect' in the UK. I shed light on the extent to which partnered women's participation is affected by the work status of their partner's mother. I find a positive association between a working mother-in-law and female labour force participation, which remains sizeable after accounting for individual-level characteristics. I also show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi women's participation is more sensitive to the work status of their mothers-in-law than that of other groups.
This study aims to analyse the role of mothers' education and employment status on children's education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Using 2021 data (and 2018 for comparison) from the ...National Socio-Economic Survey (SUSENAS), the results of a logit regression showed that mothers' education and mothers' employment status generally had a positive and significant effect on children's education during the study period in three categories of education, i.e. primary education, junior secondary education, and senior secondary education. This study also found that children had a lower probability of being able to join education during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to normal conditions. This study has implications for the need for educational policy, including the development of informal educational programs, as well as ease of access for mothers to enter the labour market.
