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: Received: 25 October 2019 / Approved: 28 October 2019 / Online: 28 October 2019 (12:06:26 CET)
How to cite:
Saadi, D.; Tirosh, E.; Agay-Shay, K.; Schnell, I. Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. Preprints2019, 2019100322. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0322.v1
Saadi, D.; Tirosh, E.; Agay-Shay, K.; Schnell, I. Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. Preprints 2019, 2019100322. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0322.v1
Saadi, D.; Tirosh, E.; Agay-Shay, K.; Schnell, I. Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. Preprints2019, 2019100322. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0322.v1
APA Style
Saadi, D., Tirosh, E., Agay-Shay, K., & Schnell, I. (2019). Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0322.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Saadi, D., Keren Agay-Shay and Izhak Schnell. 2019 "Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0322.v1
Abstract
Parental stresses are normal responses to raising children. They are affected by stresses parents and children accumulate and bring to their interrelations. Background factors like economic difficulties or the relations between the parents may affect parental stresses as well as demographic and environmental factors like noise and access to urban parks. Most studies on parental stress are based on a verified psychological questionnaire. We suggest using frequency domain heart rate variability index (HRV) to measure parental stress enabling, by thus, the measurement of physiological aspects of stress and risk to health. Parental stress is measured as the difference between HRV accumulated at home while staying with the children and without the husband and HRV measured in the neighborhood while staying without the children and the husband. We use the index to compare differences among Muslim and Jewish mothers in exposure to maternal stress at their homes and to expose the factors that predict differences in maternal stress. We found that Muslim mothers suffer from home-related maternal stress while Jewish mother do not. Number of children and ethnically related environmental aspects predict differences in maternal stress between Muslim and Jewish mothers. Muslims' lower access to parks stems from lack of home garden and parks in their neighborhoods in the Arab towns but mainly by restrictions on Muslim women's' freedom of movement to parks. Despite differences in levels of noise at home and in the status of the mother in the household, these factors did not predict differences in parental stress. Instead, the study highlights the crucial role of greenery and freedom of movement to parks in moderating home-related maternal stress.
Keywords
Parentalstress; Maternal stress; Heart rate variability as an index of parental stress; Socio-economic; demographic; environmental and gender factors associated with maternal stress
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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