Table 2.

Results of Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models Predicting the Associations Between Employment Factors and Parental Stress for Fathers and Mothers (N = 3,165)

	Fathers					Mothers
	Zero Order		Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients	Zero Order		Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients
	b	SE	b	SE	$\hat{a}$	b	SE	b	SE	$\hat{a}$
Current employment Status
Not employed	0.173***	0.036	0.228***	0.049	0.136	0.136***	0.027	0.175**	0.067	0.136
Employed, part-time	0.094	0.051	0.050	0.050	0.018	0.062	0.036	0.078*	0.034	0.045
Employed, full-time	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Employed, extended hrs	0.009	0.032	-0.003	0.032	0.001	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Employed, overtime	0.003	0.045	-0.053	0.046	-0.024	-0.008	0.043	-0.037	0.041	-0.016
Work non-standard hours	-0.103***	0.028	-0.043	0.037	-0.029	-0.118***	0.023	-0.014	0.063	-0.011
Informal work hours	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.016	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.014
Work two or more jobs	-0.011	0.033	-0.008	0.033	-0.005	-0.005	0.039	-0.034	0.038	-0.018
Job stability past three years
Consistently not employed	0.101*	0.048	0.060	0.048	0.025	0.096**	0.034	0.026	0.036	0.012
Worked one or two jobs	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Worked multiple jobs	0.044	0.032	-.003	0.033	0.001	0.083**	0.032	0.019	0.031	0.011
Workplace inflexibility
Never	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Sometimes	0.192***	0.032	0.188***	0.032	0.132	0.121***	0.033	0.085** a	0.032	0.059
Often or always	0.362***	0.037	0.328***	0.037	0.191	0.377***	0.045	0.292***	0.044	0.130
Controls:
Age	-0.003	0.002	-0.001	0.002	-0.014	0.002	0.002	0.003	0.002	0.032
Education
Less than high school	0.080*	0.032	0.065	0.034	0.041	0.125***	0.029	0.068*	0.029	0.051
High school diploma	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Some college	-0.110***	0.033	-0.082*	0.034	-0.052	-0.059	0.031	-0.042	0.030	-0.027
College graduate	-0.037	0.040	0.002	0.047	0.001	0.059	0.038	0.152*** b	0.045	-0.081
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Non-Hispanic Black	-0.002	0.033	-0.064	0.037	-0.047	0.071*	0.029	0.057	0.031	0.044
Hispanic	-0.028	0.036	-0.112** b	0.039	-0.072	0.060	0.033	0.027	0.034	0.018
Other race/ethnicity	0.165*	0.068	0.104	0.068	0.032	0.094	0.062	0.088	0.059	0.029
Income-to-poverty ratio	-0.013***	0.004	-0.004	0.004	-0.021	-0.012**	0.004	-0.001	0.005	-0.007
Chronic depression	0.233***	0.036	0.151***	0.037	0.078	0.307***	0.029	0.251***	0.028	0.157
Child’s general health	-0.058*	0.022	-0.042*	0.019	-0.055	-0.102***	0.016	-0.055***	0.015	-0.065
No. of children	0.008	0.009	0.016	0.010	0.035	0.038***	0.009	0.025**	0.009	0.051
Non-residential children	0.040	0.025	0.029	0.030	0.019	0.046	0.042	-0.003	0.042	-0.001
Engagement	-0.031***	0.007	-0.022***	0.007	-0.061	-0.072***	0.007	-0.057*** c	0.007	-0.142
Relationship status
Married	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
Cohabiting	0.064*	0.031	0.039	0.033	0.026	-0.012	0.030	0.009	0.032	-0.005
Dating	0.114*	0.053	-0.006	0.057	-0.001	0.039	0.051	-0.001	0.050	0.002
Single	0.080*	0.041	-0.045	0.046	-0.023	0.041	0.033	-0.065	0.038	-0.042
Repartnered	0.035	0.043	-0.120*	0.055	-0.062	0.113**	0.037	0.014	0.044	0.006
Co-parenting relationship quality	-0.199***	0.038	-0.153***	0.041	-0.079	-0.168***	0.023	-0.128***	0.027	-0.107
Constant			2.672***	0.164				2.729***	0.143
R-square			0.082					0.122
Adj. R-square			0.073					0.114

Note: Differences in coefficients between fathers and mothers are statistically significant at

^ap < .05,

^bp < .01,

^cp < .001.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001.