Depression Lower For Working Moms, Study Finds
Women Who Work Outside The Home Found To Battle Depression Less Frequently Than Stay-At-Home Counterparts
POSTED: 3:19 pm PDT August 23, 2011
UPDATED: 3:22 pm PDT August 23, 2011
BAKERSFIELD, Ca -- Supermoms of the world -- relax. Holding yourselves to unrealistically high standards may be costing you more than you think.A study presented to the American Sociological Association finds that working mothers have lower rates of depression than their stay-at-home counterparts.That's the good news. But trying to "have it all" could put some professional women at greater risk for depression.
The authors surveyed 1,600 American women age 40 and married. They found that working women with a "supermom" view -- that jobs could be juggled with home lives fairly easily -- showed higher levels of depression symptoms than working moms who expected to sacrifice some elements of careers or parenting to balance out the burdens.
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