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Creation Date
4-19-2016
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Previous research by Milkie, Nomaguchi, and Denny (2015) found that the amount of time adolescents have with their mother did not relate to behaviors, emotions, or academics, but did for social status factors. The aim of the current research was to better understand if the feelings of adolescents during the mid-1990s related to maternal time unlike current adolescents' emotions and the role of social status factors. A secondary analysis of publically available data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health was conducted, which used a school-based, clustered sampling design to identify a nationally representative sample of 7th- to 12th-grade, with oversampling of underrepresented groups. The sample of 6,228 adolescents was comprised of 51.91 % female and 57.51 % Caucasian. The relationship between number of hours the mother works outside the home and if they feel loved and wanted by their mother was statistically significant F (4, 5880)=2.52 p=.04. Whether the mother worked part-time, full-time, or over-time each week, the majority of participants strongly agreed or agreed to feeling loved and wanted by their mother. The relationship between how much education the mother and father had and feeling loved and wanted by their mother was statistically significant F (7, 5675)=5.54, p