Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe by Michaela Kreyenfeld & Heike Trappe

Author:Michaela Kreyenfeld & Heike Trappe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030445751
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Analytical Approach

We first address the question of whether the mothers who separated are a select group. To do so, we examine whether mothers who did or did not separate before the child reached age seven differed in terms of their parenting competence in wave one (when the child was nine months old). We analyse the raw means, but also adjust for relevant covariates. We then estimate linear growth mixed models of maternal parenting confidence (Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal 2012; Singer and Willett 2003). These models take advantage of the repeated measures of the mothers’ confidence at three points in time, when their children were approximately three, five and seven years old. As noted above, we control for parenting confidence when the child was nine months old, as well as other potentially confounding characteristics. We estimate the effect of maternal separation as a time-varying covariate on mothers’ confidence, and its development.

Level 1 represents the within-mother change in confidence from the child’s third to seventh year of life. Level 2 represents the between-mother variation in confidence when the child was three years old (random intercept), and the linear change from the child’s third to seventh year of life (random slope). We included a fixed quadratic on age to account for the curved shape of average parenting confidence trajectories. The composite model can be written as follows:

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