Journal article
Got milk? Workplace factors related to breastfeeding among working mothers
Journal of organizational behavior, Vol.37(5), pp.692-718
07/2016
DOI: 10.1002/job.2061
Abstract
Summary
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that women breastfeed because of improved health outcomes for mothers and children. Because maternal employment during the first year of the child's life has been identified as a reason for breastfeeding cessation, we develop and test a role‐theory‐based framework to explain women's continuation of breastfeeding after return to work (Study 1) and report results of an exploratory study linking breastfeeding at work with job attitudes and well‐being (Study 2). Applying survival analysis to a longitudinal dataset gathered by the Centers for Disease Control (Study 1), we identify pregnant women's perceived employer support for breastfeeding as a predictor of women's breastfeeding goal intentions. Supervisors' negative workplace remarks about breastfeeding related to an eightfold increase of women's likelihood to discontinue exclusive breastfeeding and perceived support for breastfeeding after return to work predicted exclusive breastfeeding continuation. Results of Study 2 suggest that women who return to work and continue breastfeeding experience more family‐to‐work conflict and overload than women who do not reconcile work and breastfeeding. Further, results of Study 2 provide preliminary evidence suggesting that perceptions of supervisor and coworker support for breastfeeding relate positively to general perceptions of organizational support and negatively to depressive symptoms. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Got milk? Workplace factors related to breastfeeding among working mothers
- Creators
- Christiane Spitzmueller - University of HoustonZhuxi Wang - University of HoustonJing Zhang - University of HoustonCandice L Thomas - University of HoustonGwenith G Fisher - Colorado State UniversityRussell A Matthews - Bowling Green State UniversityLane Strathearn - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of organizational behavior, Vol.37(5), pp.692-718
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.2061
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
- eISSN
- 1099-1379
- Number of pages
- 27
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2016
- Academic Unit
- Neuroscience and Pharmacology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984070306302771
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