Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Facilitating transition from maternity leave to work for working mothers: A self-efficacy intervention study
Originally published 2023-03-17 · Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health
Cambridge University Press · DOI 10.1017/gmh.2023.6 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Tests work–family-balance self-efficacy training and follows later work outcomes, providing a concrete capability-support example with appropriately preliminary evidence.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
What preparation could help a parent feel capable of returning on their own terms?
Tests work–family-balance self-efficacy training and follows later work outcomes, providing a concrete capability-support example with appropriately preliminary evidence.
Study context
100 maternity-leave takers from 16 Japanese companies, with supervisor reports six months after return.
Age / stage: Adult mothers transitioning from leave to work.
Read with three questions
- How did self-efficacy change immediately after training?
- Which later outcome was supervisor-rated and which was participant-reported?
- Why did an association with performance not imply an improvement in employment attitudes?
Keep the limits in view
A pretest–posttest design without a randomized counterfactual cannot isolate training effects; prediction of later performance is not proof of a causal pathway.
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Akiko Kokubo; Katsuhiko Yoshikawa; Chia-Huei Wu (2023). Facilitating transition from maternity leave to work for working mothers: A self-efficacy intervention study Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2023.6
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