Kate Dupré and Angela Dionisi to speak at Carleton’s Psychology Colloquium Series on Nov 4th @ 2:30pm

In this talk, we focus on one study from our program of research investigating COVID-19 and family-related well-being. We explore how the pandemic may add additional risk to the already precarious reality of sole employed mothers, finding that work-family conflict differentially relates to mothers’ parenting stress, based on relationship status; this relationship was exacerbated among mothers who were sole parents. Moreover, this stress was negatively related to the mental health and work engagement of all working mothers, but especially those who are sole parents. Findings broaden our understanding of the implications of this pandemic for employed mothers, and how this crisis may be increasing disparities between working sole-parent and dual-partner families.