Fruit Vendors’ Relationship Crisis with Families and Relatives during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh

Document Type : Original Article

Author

3366,3rd academic building,KU

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to identify the factors associated with the fruit vendor's relationship with families and relatives.
Methods:  I conducted this study using a quantitative research approach and employed random sampling to collect field data.
Results: The study showed that married fruit vendors, compared to unmarried ones, were 2.77 times more likely to have relations with family members (OR = 2.77, 95% CI = .086–.887). In addition, fruit vendors whose spouses were illiterate had good relations with family members (OR = 4.95, 95% CI, 1.26–19.39). However, fruit vendors who lived in a pacca house (OR =.208, 95% CI =.053–.819), had a monthly income of BDT ≤20,000 (OR =.261, 95% CI =.088–.778), and had no savings (OR = 8.61, 95% CI = 1.85–40.07), were likely to maintain family relations. In the case of relations with relatives, the owner of the house (OR =.147, 95% CI =.049–.440), the local fruit seller (OR = 8.26, 95% CI = 1.11-61.16), having a monthly income of BDT≤20,000 (OR = 7.96, 95% CI = 1.52-41.57), and having no savings (OR =.269, 95% CI =.079–.922) influenced it.
Conclusion: GO-NGO concerns can be useful for fruit vendors, particularly those who are more vulnerable to family issues.

Keywords

References

Adhikari, D. B. (2011). Income generation in the informal sector: A case study of the street vendors of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Economic Journal of Development Issues, 13&14(1–2),1-14. Doi:10.3126/ejdi.v13i0.7193
Alimi, B. A. (2016). Risk factors in street food practices in developing countries: A review. Food Science and Human Wellness, 5(3), 141–148. Doi:10.1016/j.fshw.2016.05.001
Baxter, J., & Smart, D. (2011). Fathering in Australia among couple families with young children. Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Occasional Paper-37. https://www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/user_upload/k_leavenetwork/Fathering_Australia.pdf
Begari, P. (2017). Education Level of Street Vendors and Its Impact on Performance of the Activity: A Case Study of Hyderabad, Telangana. International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences (IJRESS), 7(7), 436–443. http://euroasiapub.org
Bhatt, B., & Jariwala, A. D. (2018). A study of street vending activities in the southeast zone of Surat. International Journal of Civil Engineering, 7(3), 1–10.
Bray, J. H., Williamson, D. S., & Malone, P. E. (1986). An evaluation of an intergenerational consultation process to increase personal authority in the family system. Family Process, 25(3), 423–436. Doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00423.x
Brock, R. L., & Kochanska, G. (2016). Interparental conflict, children’s security with parents, and long-term risk of internalizing problems: A longitudinal study from ages 2 to 10. Development and Psychopathology, 28(1), 45–54. Doi:10.1017/s0954579415000279
Choudhury, M., Mahanta, L., Goswami, J., Mazumder, M., & Pegoo, B. (2011). Socio-economic profile and food safety knowledge and practice of street food vendors in the city of Guwahati, Assam, India. Food Control, 22(2), 196–203. Doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.06.020
Colbert, A., Yee, N., & George, G. (2016). The digital workforce and the workplace of the future. Academy of Management Journal, 59(3), 731–739. Academy of Management Briarcliff Manor, NY. Doi:10.5465/amj.2016.4003
Coley, R. L., Leventhal, T., Lynch, A. D., & Kull, M. (2013). Relations between housing characteristics and the well-being of low-income children and adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 49(9), 1775–1789. Doi:10.1037/a0031033
Cooklin, A. R., Dinh, H., Strazdins, L., Westrupp, E., Leach, L. S., & Nicholson, J. M. (2016). Change and stability in work–family conflict and mothers’ and fathers’ mental health: Longitudinal evidence from an Australian cohort. Social Science & Medicine, 155, 24–34. Doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.02.036
Dang, Q. (2020). Representing Gender Roles and Harmony Friendship: A Moral Lesson for First Grade Vietnamese Students. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 10. Doi:10.31274/jctp.11568
Dinh, H., Strazdins, L., & Welsh, J. (2017). Hour-glass ceilings: Work-hour thresholds, gendered health inequities. Social Science & Medicine, 176, 42–51. Doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.024
Fellows, K. J., Chiu, H.-Y., Hill, E. J., & Hawkins, A. J. (2016). Work–family conflict and couple relationship quality: A meta-analytic study. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 37, 509–518. Doi:10.1007/s10834-015-9450-7
Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., Boden, J. M., & Mulder, R. T. (2014). Impact of a Major Disaster on the Mental Health of a Well-Studied Cohort. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(9), 1025–1031. Doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.652
Franks, P., Campbell, T. L., & Shields, C. G. (1992). Social relationships and health: The relative roles of family functioning and social support. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 34(7), 779–788. Doi:10.1016/0277-9536(92)90365-w
Giallo, R., D’Esposito, F., Cooklin, A., Christensen, D., & Nicholson, J. M. (2014). Factors associated with trajectories of psychological distress for Australian fathers across the early parenting period. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49, 1961–1971. Doi:10.1007/s00127-014-0834-z
Ginting, M. P., & Anugrahini, T. (2023). Development of the social capital of street vendors in maintaining their existence on land owned by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Harmoni Sosial: Jurnal Pendidikan IPS, 10(1), 63-74. Doi:10.21831/hsjpi.v10i1.60428
Goodman, W. B., Crouter, A. C., Lanza, S. T., Cox, M. J., Vernon‐Feagans, L., & Investigators, F. L. P. K. (2011). Paternal work stress and latent profiles of father–infant parenting quality. Journal of Marriage and Family, 73(3), 588–604. Doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00826.x
Hill, J., Mchiza, Z., Puoane, T., & Steyn, N. P. (2019). Food sold by street-food vendors in Cape Town and surrounding areas: A focus on food and nutrition knowledge as well as practices related to food preparation of street-food vendors. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 14(3), 401–415. Doi:10.1080/19320248.2018.1434104
Hobfoll, S. E. (1989). Conservation of resources. A new attempt at conceptualizing stress. The American Psychologist, 44(3), 513–524. Doi:10.1037//0003-066x.44.3.513
Horton, P., & Rydström, H. (2011). Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam: Privileges, Pleasures, and Protests. Men and Masculinities, 14(5), 542–564. Doi:10.1177/1097184X11409362
Jain, A., Shah, K., Desai, A., Kumarswami, A., Sharma, M., Bindal, P., Sanghvi, V., Patel, S., Jethwani, P., & Garg, I. (2016). A Comparative Study of Member Based and Non-Member Based Vegetable and Fruit Vendors under Decent Work in Ahmedabad City. Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR), 2(4). https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:111810114
Kambara, C. (2015). FDI in retail: Plight of women vegetable vendors. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 58(4), 677–693. Doi:10.1007/s41027-016-0041-4
Kawarazuka, N., Béné, C., & Prain, G. (2018). Adapting to a new urbanizing environment: Gendered strategies of Hanoi’s street food vendors. Environment and Urbanization, 30(1), 233–248. Doi:10.1177/0956247817735482
La Greca, A., Silverman, W. K., Vernberg, E. M., & Prinstein, M. J. (1996). Symptoms of posttraumatic stress in children after Hurricane Andrew: A prospective study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(4), 712–723. Doi:10.1037//0022-006x.64.4.712
Leach, L. S., Dinh, H., Cooklin, A., Nicholson, J. M., & Strazdins, L. (2021). Australian parents’ work-family conflict: Accumulated effects on children’s family environment and mental health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(4), 571–581. Doi:10.1007/s00127-020-01944-3
Lewis, J., Noden, P., & Sarre, S. (2008). Parents’ working hours: Adolescent children’s views and experiences. Children & Society, 22(6), 429–439. Doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00124.x
Martinez, L., Rennie Short, J., & Estrada, D. (2017). The urban informal economy: Street vendors in Cali, Colombia. Cities, 66, 34–43. Doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.03.010
McDermott, B. M., & Cobham, V. E. (2012). Family functioning in the aftermath of a natural disaster. BMC Psychiatry, 12(1), 55. Doi:10.1186/1471-244X-12-55
McFarlane, A. C. (1987). Family functioning and overprotection following a natural disaster: The longitudinal effects of post-traumatic morbidity. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 21(2), 210–218. Doi:10.3109/00048678709160914
Mercado, J. O. (2018). Economic Condition of Street Vegetable Vendors in the Five Municipalities of Northern Part of Surigao Del Sur, Philippines. Sci. Int.(Lahore), 9(2), 149–153.
Rane, S. (2011). Street vended food in developing world: Hazard analyses. Indian Journal of Microbiology, 51(1), 100–106. Doi:10.1007/s12088-011-0154-x
Ray, C. N., & Mishra, A. (2011). Vendors and Informal Sector. A Case-Study of Street Vendors of Surat City. Working Paper-15. https://www.wiego.org/research-library-publications/vendors-and-informal-sector-case-study-street-vendors-surat-city/
Saha, D. (2011). Working Life of Street Vendors in Mumbai. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 54(2),301-325. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:56078176
Samapundo, S., Thanh, T. C., Xhaferi, R., & Devlieghere, F. (2016). Food safety knowledge, attitudes and practices of street food vendors and consumers in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Food Control, 70, 79–89. Doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.05.037
Sekhani, R., Mohan, D., & Medipally, S. (2019). Street vending in urban ‘informal’markets: Reflections from case-studies of street vendors in Delhi (India) and Phnom Penh City (Cambodia). Cities, 89, 120–129. Doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.01.010
Shonkoff, J. P. (2010). Building a new biodevelopmental framework to guide the future of early childhood policy. Child Development, 81(1), 357–367. Doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01399.x
Strazdins, L., OBrien, L. V., Lucas, N., & Rodgers, B. (2013). Combining work and family: Rewards or risks for children’s mental health? Social Science & Medicine, 87, 99–107. Doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.030
Tigari, H., & Anushree, G. M. (2020). Income and Expenditure Pattern of Vegetable Vendors. Shanlax International Journal of Commerce, 8(3), 11–19. Doi:10.34293/commerce.v8i3.3240
Turnbull, A., Turnbull, R., Erwin, E.J., Soodak, L.C. and Shogren, K.A. (2011) Families, professionals, and exceptionality: Positive outcomes through partnerships and trust. 6th Edition, Pearson, Upper Saddle River.
Valdez, Z., Dean, W. R., & Sharkey, J. R. (2012). Mobile and Home-based Vendors’ Contributions to the Retail Food Environment in Rural South Texas Mexican-origin Settlements. Appetite, 59(2), 212–217. Doi:10.1016/j.appet.2012.04.012
Watson. W.H. (2012). Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Second Edition). https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/family-systems-theory

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 02 January 2025
  • Revise Date: 03 February 2025
  • Accept Date: 11 February 2025

Share

How to cite

Statistics