Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Work-family enrichment: A potential buffer of inflammation among black adults?
Originally published 2022-09-19 · Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
Elsevier · DOI 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100517 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about workplace enrichment studied alongside broader health and equity conditions; the original evidence concerns 447 working MIDUS adults including an oversample of Black adults in Milwaukee.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Could positive experiences across work and family matter for physical wellbeing too?
This reading brings work-to-family enrichment and inflammation markers in a racially diverse adult sample into the kindness pathway. The observational worker survey and biomarker analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
447 working MIDUS adults including an oversample of Black adults in Milwaukee
Age / stage: Working adults; not a child study
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess directional enrichment measures and blood-based inflammation markers?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about overall associations and unresolved variation between racial groups?
- What would need to be checked before adopting workplace enrichment studied alongside broader health and equity conditions?
Keep the limits in view
Biomarker associations cannot establish protection from cardiovascular disease; racial variation remained undetermined and the sample was not exclusively Black adults.
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Nicholas D. Thomas; Shannon C. Montgomery; Benjamin Behers; Eduardo Reyes; Thomas Ledermann; Joseph G. Grzywacz (2022). Work-family enrichment: A potential buffer of inflammation among black adults? Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100517
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