Ethnic Differences in Home-Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Method
2.1. Devices
2.2. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Limitation
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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LnLF/HF | LF_nu | HF_nu | |||||||
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Home | Neighbor- Hood | % Diff. | Home | Neighbor- Hood | % Diff. | Home | Neighbor- Hood | % Diff. | |
Muslims | 12.8 | 8.8 | 31.2 | 92.0 | 88.4 | 3.9 | 8.0 | 11.6 | −45.0 |
Jews | 8.2 | 11.3 | −37.8 | 88.4 | 91.1 | −3.0 | 11.5 | 8.9 | 22.6 |
% Diff. | 35.9 | −28.4 | 3.9 | −3.1 | −43.7 | 23.3 | |||
ANOVA Sig. | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.05 | 0.001 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Muslim | Jewish | |||
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Socio-economic Status | Economic status | Low | 47.9 | 0 |
Fair through good | 52.1 | 100 | ||
Work | Working | 52.1 | 100 | |
Not working | 47.9 | 0 | ||
Education | Secondary | 64.5 | 0 | |
Higher education | 35.4 | 100 | ||
Demographic | Residential density | Not crowded | 33.3 | 100 |
Crowded | 66.6 | 0 | ||
No of children | Few | 39.6 | 91.7 | |
Many | 60.4 | 8.3 | ||
Woman’s status in Family | Participation in Decision-making | Not involved | 66.7 | 0 |
Involved | 33.3 | 100 | ||
Free visit to park | with a company | 48.1 | 0 | |
On her own | 51.9 | 100 | ||
Environment | Garden at home A park in vicinity Noise at home | Yes Yes Average | 0 0 88.9 | 100 100 49.4 |
Aspect | Statistics | B | Sig. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R2 | F | Sig. | ||||
Socio-economic Status | 0.17 | Economic status | −0.11 | 0.8 | ||
7.1 | 0.002 | Work | −0.13 | 0.8 | ||
Education | −0.38 | 0.0001 | ||||
Demographic | 0.59 | 51.0 | 0.0001 | Residential density | 0.08 | 0.92 |
No of children | 0.60 | 0.0001 | ||||
Ethnicity | 0.22 | 0.0001 | ||||
Woman’s status in Family | 0.54 | Participation in Decision-making | 0.04 | 0.3 | ||
41.1 | 0.0001 | Free visit to park | −0.60 | 0.0001 | ||
Environment | 0.53 | 40.9 | 0.0001 | Garden at home A park in vicinity Noise at home | −0.60 −0.60 0.14 | 0.0001 0.0001 0.51 |
B | Sig. | Partial Correlation | |
---|---|---|---|
No. Children | 0.48 | 0.0001 | 0.73 |
Ethnic environment | 0.44 | 0.0001 | 0.57 |
Education | 0.06 | 0.46 | 0.09 |
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Diana, S.; Emanuel, T.; Keren, A.-S.; Izhak, S. Ethnic Differences in Home-Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4393. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224393
Diana S, Emanuel T, Keren A-S, Izhak S. Ethnic Differences in Home-Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(22):4393. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224393
Chicago/Turabian StyleDiana, Saadi, Tirosh Emanuel, Agay-Shay Keren, and Schnell Izhak. 2019. "Ethnic Differences in Home-Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22: 4393. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224393