We use the package deal framework to study the trajectory of father involvement over time as a function of union status, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. Average father involvement at the child's first birthday is 3.25 days per week and declines at a rate of .17 days per year. Mothers, on average, report father involvement to be .57 days less than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage, or who transition from a noncoresidential state to a coresidential union experience the highest levels of father involvement and the lowest levels of discrepancy between mothers' and fathers' reports. Cohabiting fathers exhibit higher average levels of father involvement than married fathers. We discuss the place of cohabiting families in light of our findings.
{"title":"A Better Deal for Cohabiting Fathers' Union Status Differences in Father Involvement","authors":"L. McClain, A. DeMaris","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1102.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1102.199","url":null,"abstract":"We use the package deal framework to study the trajectory of father involvement over time as a function of union status, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. Average father involvement at the child's first birthday is 3.25 days per week and declines at a rate of .17 days per year. Mothers, on average, report father involvement to be .57 days less than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage, or who transition from a noncoresidential state to a coresidential union experience the highest levels of father involvement and the lowest levels of discrepancy between mothers' and fathers' reports. Cohabiting fathers exhibit higher average levels of father involvement than married fathers. We discuss the place of cohabiting families in light of our findings.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"199-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1102.199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines how moral norms shape fathers’ ability to choose their care commitments. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with 21 Swedish fathers, it considers the ways men negotiate moral intelligibility vis-a-vis the prevailing ideals of fatherhood and masculinity when accounting for their decisions to either exercise or not their right to parental part-time work. The analysis shows fatherhood to be heavily permeated by moral norms. The constraints these norms impose upon and the possibilities they offer for present-day Swedish fathers’ agency when choosing and articulating their commitments are investigated. The moral discourses the fathers engaged with allowed for various ways of doing “good fatherhood” to be made morally intelligible, either enabling or excluding part-time work as a morally possible option.
{"title":"DOING MORALLY INTELLIGIBLE FATHERHOOD: SWEDISH FATHERS’ ACCOUNTS OF THEIR PARENTAL PART-TIME WORK CHOICES","authors":"Sofia Björk","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1102.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1102.221","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how moral norms shape fathers’ ability to choose their care commitments. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with 21 Swedish fathers, it considers the ways men negotiate moral intelligibility vis-a-vis the prevailing ideals of fatherhood and masculinity when accounting for their decisions to either exercise or not their right to parental part-time work. The analysis shows fatherhood to be heavily permeated by moral norms. The constraints these norms impose upon and the possibilities they offer for present-day Swedish fathers’ agency when choosing and articulating their commitments are investigated. The moral discourses the fathers engaged with allowed for various ways of doing “good fatherhood” to be made morally intelligible, either enabling or excluding part-time work as a morally possible option.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"221-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1102.221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This grounded theory study examined how 20 newly divorced, nonresidential fathers believe their physical involvement with their children allows them to maintain an Involved Father identity. Their identities, however, were negatively influenced by five barriers—Rushed Time; The Legal System; Geographic Distance; Negative Perception of Child Support; and Higher Conflict Former Spouse Relationships. Finally, fathers described four ways they were able to reframe their barriers, which negated their negative influence: Reframing Priorities; Reframing Time; Reframing the Relationship with Former Wives; and Reframing Fathers’ Needs. The findings suggest that divorced nonresidential fathers’ physical involvement with their children is maintained by the ability to reframe barriers and not by the number of barriers fathers identify.
{"title":"“I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE I CAN TAKE”: HOW DIVORCED NONRESIDENTIAL FATHERS MANAGE BARRIERS TO INVOLVEMENT?","authors":"J. Troilo, M. Coleman","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1102.159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1102.159","url":null,"abstract":"This grounded theory study examined how 20 newly divorced, nonresidential fathers believe their physical involvement with their children allows them to maintain an Involved Father identity. Their identities, however, were negatively influenced by five barriers—Rushed Time; The Legal System; Geographic Distance; Negative Perception of Child Support; and Higher Conflict Former Spouse Relationships. Finally, fathers described four ways they were able to reframe their barriers, which negated their negative influence: Reframing Priorities; Reframing Time; Reframing the Relationship with Former Wives; and Reframing Fathers’ Needs. The findings suggest that divorced nonresidential fathers’ physical involvement with their children is maintained by the ability to reframe barriers and not by the number of barriers fathers identify.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"159-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1102.159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Children benefit from high quality relationships with their fathers in a number of ways. However, little is known about the origins of father-child relationships. Here, identity theory and data from the Fragile Families dataset are used to investigate associations between mothers’ and fathers’ fathering identities at the time of the child’s birth and nine years later, and the father-child relationship as reported by children at age nine. Neither mothers’ nor fathers’ role identity standards at birth were associated with father-child relationship quality, but greater father status centrality and not having considered abortion were associated with better father-child relationships. The association between abortion consideration and relationship quality was mediated by whether parents were romantically involved at Year 9. Implications for theory, policy, and practice are discussed.
{"title":"A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ INITIAL FATHERING IDENTITIES AND LATER FATHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP QUALITY","authors":"K. Adamsons","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1102.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1102.118","url":null,"abstract":"Children benefit from high quality relationships with their fathers in a number of ways. However, little is known about the origins of father-child relationships. Here, identity theory and data from the Fragile Families dataset are used to investigate associations between mothers’ and fathers’ fathering identities at the time of the child’s birth and nine years later, and the father-child relationship as reported by children at age nine. Neither mothers’ nor fathers’ role identity standards at birth were associated with father-child relationship quality, but greater father status centrality and not having considered abortion were associated with better father-child relationships. The association between abortion consideration and relationship quality was mediated by whether parents were romantically involved at Year 9. Implications for theory, policy, and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"118-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1102.118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Makusha, L. Richter, Lucia Knight, H. Rooyen, Deevia Bhana
Using qualitative data from Project SIZE—a study that explores child and family well-being in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty, we interviewed the female caregivers of 20 9- to 10-year-old children and 16 of the father-figures nominated by children. We consider how childhood experiences with fathers are associated with women’s expectations and men’s experiences of fathering. Data were analysed thematically in pairs of the focal child’s caregiver and father-figure. Data from four women who were not paired were analysed individually. Results generally support both the modelling and the compensatory hypotheses to explain intergenerational influences on men’s fathering attitudes and behaviour. Our results go a step further to acknowledge that fatherhood is dynamic and, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, it is influenced also by socio-cultural and economic factors, societal expectations, fathermother relationship and individual characteristics of men.
{"title":"\"The good and the bad?\": childhood experiences with fathers and their influence on women's expectations and men's experiences of fathering in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa","authors":"T. Makusha, L. Richter, Lucia Knight, H. Rooyen, Deevia Bhana","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1102.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1102.138","url":null,"abstract":"Using qualitative data from Project SIZE—a study that explores child and family well-being in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty, we interviewed the female caregivers of 20 9- to 10-year-old children and 16 of the father-figures nominated by children. We consider how childhood experiences with fathers are associated with women’s expectations and men’s experiences of fathering. Data were analysed thematically in pairs of the focal child’s caregiver and father-figure. Data from four women who were not paired were analysed individually. Results generally support both the modelling and the compensatory hypotheses to explain intergenerational influences on men’s fathering attitudes and behaviour. Our results go a step further to acknowledge that fatherhood is dynamic and, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, it is influenced also by socio-cultural and economic factors, societal expectations, fathermother relationship and individual characteristics of men.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"138-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1102.138","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fathers in Cultural Context, edited by David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, Michael E. Lamb. 2012, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 448 pages.Fathers in Cultural Context is an edited book bringing together twenty-eight authors who write about fathers and fathering in fourteen different cultures. Most of the cultures covered are not surprising and are rather mainstream, including China, Japan, India, the Caribbean, some European countries and the U.S. Other cultures present a major draw-back of an edited book such as this- scope. Certain cultures covered are particularly complex, containing dozens of sub-cultures, languages, traditions, religions, and economic strata. The editors address this challenge in the introductory chapter and develop a basic outline for each chapter. This outline includes case or representative stories, cultural and contextual influences, a summary of existing research, social policy issues, and future directions, speculations, comparisons, and predictions.For example, in Chapter 2, the authors introduce readers to the influences of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist thought on traditional Chinese family life and fatherhood. They note that in recent years, significant social and economic changes, such as the family planning policy, have greatly influenced fatherhood. Their analysis includes an examination of differences between urban and rural populations, diverse ethnic groups, the impact of gender/employment policies, and changing family structure. The authors carefully take us through the scant but current research on fathers that is emerging in Mainland China- not just Taiwan. A primary conclusion in this chapter is that today's fathers may be more involved than those in previous generations. We find a similar conclusion in Chapter 3 on fathering in Japan.In Japan, however, we learn that rapid economic growth has been a primary challenge to fathers as they connect with their children. This chapter alerts us to recent policy shifts in which government and non-profit organizations have put forth extensive efforts to promote child rearing and fatherhood. Young Japanese fathers are seemingly more engaged than fathers in the 20* century, and the authors predict that this will continue.By contrast, Chapter 4 relates how fathers in India are very important figures, but research is particularly scarce, as much more attention has been given to women and mothers. Social policies related to the family are outdated relative to global trends, although several adaptations have been made in recent years. It appears that there has not been nearly as much ground-swell shift in increased father involvement in India - but that conclusion is somewhat hampered by the lack of a significant body of basic research. This chapter, it seems to us, was weaker, not because of author inattentiveness or writing quality, but because of the generally scattered research efforts about Indian fathers.We were pleased to see two strong chapters about Muslim f
{"title":"Fathers in Cultural Context","authors":"Randal D. Day, Nathan A. Jorgensen","doi":"10.5860/choice.50-4144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-4144","url":null,"abstract":"Fathers in Cultural Context, edited by David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, Michael E. Lamb. 2012, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 448 pages.Fathers in Cultural Context is an edited book bringing together twenty-eight authors who write about fathers and fathering in fourteen different cultures. Most of the cultures covered are not surprising and are rather mainstream, including China, Japan, India, the Caribbean, some European countries and the U.S. Other cultures present a major draw-back of an edited book such as this- scope. Certain cultures covered are particularly complex, containing dozens of sub-cultures, languages, traditions, religions, and economic strata. The editors address this challenge in the introductory chapter and develop a basic outline for each chapter. This outline includes case or representative stories, cultural and contextual influences, a summary of existing research, social policy issues, and future directions, speculations, comparisons, and predictions.For example, in Chapter 2, the authors introduce readers to the influences of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist thought on traditional Chinese family life and fatherhood. They note that in recent years, significant social and economic changes, such as the family planning policy, have greatly influenced fatherhood. Their analysis includes an examination of differences between urban and rural populations, diverse ethnic groups, the impact of gender/employment policies, and changing family structure. The authors carefully take us through the scant but current research on fathers that is emerging in Mainland China- not just Taiwan. A primary conclusion in this chapter is that today's fathers may be more involved than those in previous generations. We find a similar conclusion in Chapter 3 on fathering in Japan.In Japan, however, we learn that rapid economic growth has been a primary challenge to fathers as they connect with their children. This chapter alerts us to recent policy shifts in which government and non-profit organizations have put forth extensive efforts to promote child rearing and fatherhood. Young Japanese fathers are seemingly more engaged than fathers in the 20* century, and the authors predict that this will continue.By contrast, Chapter 4 relates how fathers in India are very important figures, but research is particularly scarce, as much more attention has been given to women and mothers. Social policies related to the family are outdated relative to global trends, although several adaptations have been made in recent years. It appears that there has not been nearly as much ground-swell shift in increased father involvement in India - but that conclusion is somewhat hampered by the lack of a significant body of basic research. This chapter, it seems to us, was weaker, not because of author inattentiveness or writing quality, but because of the generally scattered research efforts about Indian fathers.We were pleased to see two strong chapters about Muslim f","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"34 1","pages":"238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83108066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Low income men are at risk for depressive symptoms and reduced father involvement. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 2,703), we examined reciprocal associations between father involvement and depressive symptoms, and the moderating effect of relationship quality, for resident and nonresident fathers. Higher father involvement was associated with lower depressive symptoms two years later across the full sample of fathers. However, nonresidence functioned as a risk; higher nonresident father involvement with toddlers was associated with greater depressive symptoms two years later. Greater resident father involvement with toddlers was associated with fewer depressive symptoms two years later in low quality couple relationships. Across the full sample, the association between depressive symptoms and lower involvement was weak.
{"title":"Involvement with Children and Low-Income Fathers' Psychological Well-Being.","authors":"Letitia E Kotila, Claire M Kamp Dush","doi":"10.3149/fth.1103.306","DOIUrl":"10.3149/fth.1103.306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low income men are at risk for depressive symptoms and reduced father involvement. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study <i>(n</i> = 2,703), we examined reciprocal associations between father involvement and depressive symptoms, and the moderating effect of relationship quality, for resident and nonresident fathers. Higher father involvement was associated with lower depressive symptoms two years later across the full sample of fathers. However, nonresidence functioned as a risk; higher nonresident father involvement with toddlers was associated with greater depressive symptoms two years later. Greater resident father involvement with toddlers was associated with fewer depressive symptoms two years later in low quality couple relationships. Across the full sample, the association between depressive symptoms and lower involvement was weak.</p>","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 3","pages":"306-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299464/pdf/nihms647028.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33326842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study was designed to examine connections among father beliefs, perceptions, context, and involvement, and school-aged children’s attachment and school outcomes in the U.S. and Taiwan (n = 274 father-child dyads). Fathers completed questionnaires regarding their family demographics, education-related beliefs, perceptions, and involvement, and children’s school achievement. Children completed a pictorial measure of attachment and standardized socio-emotional assessments. Father involvement was related to father beliefs and perceptions and to children’s attachment-related secure exploration. Children’s positive and negative school outcomes were related to father beliefs, perceptions, involvement, and children’s attachment. School outcomes were uniquely predicted from nationality, attachment, father-teacher relationship quality, and fathers’ beliefs about teachers, motivation for involvement, perceptions of invitations for involvement, efficacy, and school-based involvement, as well as from family income and mother involvement. Results are discussed in the context of “relationship-focused” education.
{"title":"Associations among Father Beliefs, Perceptions, Life Context, Involvement, Child Attachment and School Outcomes in the U.S. and Taiwan","authors":"L. Newland, Hui-Hua Chen, Diana D. Coyl-Shepherd","doi":"10.3149/FTH.1101.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.1101.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study was designed to examine connections among father beliefs, perceptions, context, and involvement, and school-aged children’s attachment and school outcomes in the U.S. and Taiwan (n = 274 father-child dyads). Fathers completed questionnaires regarding their family demographics, education-related beliefs, perceptions, and involvement, and children’s school achievement. Children completed a pictorial measure of attachment and standardized socio-emotional assessments. Father involvement was related to father beliefs and perceptions and to children’s attachment-related secure exploration. Children’s positive and negative school outcomes were related to father beliefs, perceptions, involvement, and children’s attachment. School outcomes were uniquely predicted from nationality, attachment, father-teacher relationship quality, and fathers’ beliefs about teachers, motivation for involvement, perceptions of invitations for involvement, efficacy, and school-based involvement, as well as from family income and mother involvement. Results are discussed in the context of “relationship-focused” education.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 1","pages":"3-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.1101.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69846213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfred Demaris, Annette Mahoney, Kenneth I Pargament
This study investigated the associations between fathers' contributions to housework and childcare and both spouses' parenting aggravation. It was hypothesized that greater father contributions to domestic labor would be associated with more paternal aggravation but less maternal aggravation. Data are from a four-wave study of 178 married couples undergoing the transition to first parenthood. Dyadic growth-curve models revealed gender differences in aggravation trajectories over the first year of the child's life. Fathers were higher in initial aggravation, but mothers' aggravation grew at a faster rate over time. The primary hypothesis was only partially supported. Fathers' contributions to childcare were associated with significantly lower maternal aggravation levels, but only among more religious mothers. Child fussiness and unpredictability were consistently significant predictors of higher aggravation for both parents. Depressive symptomatology was positively related to aggravation for fathers, whereas love for the spouse was associated with lower aggravation for mothers, controlling for other factors.
{"title":"Fathers' Contributions to Housework and Childcare and Parental Aggravation Among First-Time Parents.","authors":"Alfred Demaris, Annette Mahoney, Kenneth I Pargament","doi":"10.3149/fth.1102.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/fth.1102.179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the associations between fathers' contributions to housework and childcare and both spouses' parenting aggravation. It was hypothesized that greater father contributions to domestic labor would be associated with more paternal aggravation but less maternal aggravation. Data are from a four-wave study of 178 married couples undergoing the transition to first parenthood. Dyadic growth-curve models revealed gender differences in aggravation trajectories over the first year of the child's life. Fathers were higher in initial aggravation, but mothers' aggravation grew at a faster rate over time. The primary hypothesis was only partially supported. Fathers' contributions to childcare were associated with significantly lower maternal aggravation levels, but only among more religious mothers. Child fussiness and unpredictability were consistently significant predictors of higher aggravation for both parents. Depressive symptomatology was positively related to aggravation for fathers, whereas love for the spouse was associated with lower aggravation for mothers, controlling for other factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"11 2","pages":"179-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/fth.1102.179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31918144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linda L. Webster, J. A. Low, C. Siller, R. K. Hackett
Secondary analyses from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were conducted to investigate whether the impact of father-child relationship quality at 54 months and warmth in the father-child relationship at first grade were related to his child’s social skills in the third grade, while controlling for mother-child interaction, father’s personality, SES, and attachment. It was further investigated whether warmth in the relationship at first grade mediated the effect of the quality of the relationship on social skills. Participants included 856 families taken from the NICHD Study of Early Child Childcare for secondary analyses. Analyses indicated that the quality of interactions between a father and his 54-month old child was directly related to his child’s social skills at 3rd grade. Latent variable structural equation modeling (SEM) found that the quality of early father-child interactions influences a child’s later social outcomes through the development of a warm father-child relationship for daughters but not for sons. Implications for theory and future research are discussed.
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