ECPD Lecture Series with Professor Lyndall Strazdins

Parents often face trade-offs between earning income and spending time with their families, yet the impact of parental time pressures on adolescent mental health is less understood. Using longitudinal HILDA data from 11,128 observations, we find that mothers generally experience greater time pressure, while financial hardship and parental time pressure both negatively affect adolescent mental health, with effects varying by family type. In couple-parent families, maternal time pressure was as influential as financial hardship, while in lone-mother families financial hardship had the strongest effect and in lone-father families paternal time pressure was most harmful. These findings suggest that both time and money are critical family resources and important targets for preventative interventions.

Lyndall Strazdins
Australian National University

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