Constructing the “Good Mother”: The Experience of Mothering Ideologies by Work Status
By Deirdre D. Johnston, Debra H. Swanson. 2006
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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science
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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
In Sociology and Political Science
- Daphne E. Pedersen
- Mindy J. Erchull
- Debra H. Swanson
- Deirdre D. Johnston
- Jennifer Butler Ellis
- Kathryn M. Rizzo
- Jennifer M. Heisler
- Holly Schiffrin
Citations in the corpus
- Cognitive Acrobatics in the Construction of Worker–mother Identity (2007, background): “ Johnston and Swanson (2006) explored how mothers alter their construction of intensive mothering expectations to resolve contradictions between work and mother identities.”
- The Good Mother, the Good Father, and the Good Parent: Gendered Definitions of Parenting (2012, background): “Ideologies of parenthood define “what exists, what is good, and what is possible,” reflecting not an objective, but a subjectively constructed reality (Johnston & Swanson, 2006, p. 509; Therborn, 1980).”
- Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes (2012, background): “Our results support the idea that both working and non-working mothers embrace intensive mothering ideologies but emphasize different aspects (Johnston and Swanson 2006).”
- Parenting priorities and pressures: furthering understanding of ‘concerted cultivation’ (2016, background): “Even if mothers do not, will not, or cannot mother in such a way, intensive mothering expectations (IME; Johnston & Swanson, 2006) have become pervasive.”
- Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering (2013, background): “Several qualitative studies have described negative mental health consequences of endorsing intensive parenting beliefs (Elvin-Nowak (1999; Hays, 1996; Johnston & Swanson, 2006; Sutherland, 2010; Tummala-Narra, 2009).”
- Motherhood and the Construction of “Mommy Identity”: Messages about Motherhood and Face Negotiation (2008, background): “However, societal expectations continue to view childcare as a female responsibility, and women, child-bearing or not, are still associated with (and feel responsible for) this role (Freed, 1996 ; Johnston & Swanson, 2006 ; Letherby, 1994 ; Weinshenker, 2006 ).”