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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Father Involvement"”.
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Promoting father involvement in breastfeeding
Fathers influence mothers’ decisions to breastfeed and for how long they intend to breastfeed. Previous studies have found that positive breastfeeding outcomes are associated with fathers providing any type of supportive behavior. Above other types of support, responsive behaviours sensitive to the …
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Father Involvement and Identity: A Theoretical Examination
… conflicting societal expectations for U.S. fathers, that they be highly involved in direct child rearing and that they provide financially for their children, a revised and integrated formulation of identity theory was developed and assessed as a guide to understanding fathers' involvement …
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Father Involvement in Intact Families and Stepfamilies
Father involvement was examined multidimensionally using fathers' and children's reports. A total of 61 fathers and 143 children (intact families and stepfather families) from the Avon Brothers and Sisters Study (ABSS) participated in the current study. Measures of father involvement including …
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Father involvement in the breastfeeding process : determining contributing aspects
The importance of father involvement in the young family is increasingly evident. This research was conducted using the theory of planned behaviour to understand important aspects contributing to father invo lvement in the breastfeeding process. Eighty mothers and 65 fathers of one-year-old …
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Father Involvement, Paternal Sensitivity and Father -Child Attachment in the First Three Years
This study examined the associations among father involvement, fathers' parenting sensitivity, and father-child attachment security when children were 13 months and 3 years of age. Although there were few associations among these variables at 13 months of age, composite father involvement and …
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Childhood externalizing behavior problems, maternal depression, and father involvement in low-income African American families
… of negative outcomes. Maternal depression and father involvement may be important predictors of externalizing behavior. The current study investigated the nature of the relationship between maternal depression, father involvement, and child externalizing behaviors among low-income …
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Increasing father involvement in the care of their infant using text messages: The DadRocks study
… that interventions aimed at the transition to fatherhood can have benefits to fathers. Yet there are few studies specifically designed for fathers at their transition to parenthood, despite fathers having asked for resources specifically tailored for them. DadRocks is a minimalist (i.e., …
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Asian American Men and Fatherhood: Relationship between Acculturation, Gender-Role Conflict, Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Father Involvement
… design in which 101 Asian American fathers completed an online survey that included questionnaires assessing for acculturation, enculturation, gender role conflict, parenting self-efficacy, father involvement, and demographic information. The purpose of this study was to investigate …
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FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES: EVIDENCE ON PREDICTORS OF INVOLVEMENT FROM TWO LARGE SCALE MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH DATASETS
<p>The literature on father involvement in low-income, racially diverse families has grown in recent years, but is far from complete. Continued research is needed to better understand those factors that support father involvement, which has been identified to be a key contributor to maternal and …
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The effect of child disability/delay status and functional abilities on father involvement: an application of propensity score analysis
Past research on father involvement with children with disabilities/delays has been limited to observational/correlational studies that do not provide estimates of causal effects. Propensity score analysis was used to estimate the causal effect of child disability/delay status on father routine …
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Understanding father involvement in the education of learners with intellectual disabilities in a special school in Kenya: a case study
There are known benefits of father involvement in a child's life, such as positively affecting the child's life prospects, academic achievement, physical and emotional health as well as linguistic, literary and cognitive development. In African settings, fathers are traditionally the heads of …
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Exploring the influence of intlawulo on father Involvement among Xhosa speaking black South African fathers raised and living in Cape Town
Studies on African fatherhood represent African fathers as problematic and in South Africa, they are identified as ‘‘emotionally disengaged, physically absent, abusive and do not pay for their children's upkeep'' (Morrell & Ritcher, 2006:81). Many studies link the high rates of absent fathers to …
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IS THE PARTY OVER? Unmarried Fatherhood and Drug and Alcohol Use
… I examine the effects of marriage, paternity and father involvement on the use of drugs and alcohol by young men. Despite the importance of fatherhood as an adult role, I argue that commitment to the role of fatherhood and not paternity itself is what alters behavior. I hypothesize that young men …
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Nonresident fathers parenting and child and adolescent development
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>NONRESIDENT FATHERS PARENTING AND CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT</p> <p>by</p> <p>HEMA OSHOONE MASON</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Douglas Barnett</p> <p>Major: Psychology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental and Social …
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A Qualitative Inquiry of Fathering in the Rural Context of Appalachia Virginia
Given the increasing evidence of the benefits of father involvement, this study examined the process of fathering and the contributions to supporting father involvement and father identity. Emerging research in fathering suggests a complex set of contextual factors as influences on father identity …
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Paternal Influence on the Eudiamonic Well-Being of Emerging Adult Sons Participating in Campus Crusade for Christ
… if a relationship exists between paternal involvement during emerging adulthood and eudaimonic well-being in sons involved with Cru in the Great Lakes region in the United States. In order to execute this study, sons involved with Cru were surveyed through an adapted Father Involvement …
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Bringing fathers into F.O.C.U.S.: The lived experiences of fathers who completed a community based fatherhood programs
… study was to explore the lived experiences of fathers who were formally involved in the public child welfare system and completed a community based fatherhood program. Using symbolic interactionism, identity theory, and the responsible fathering model as theoretical frameworks, the study …
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Toward a reconceptualization of paternal involvement in infancy: The role of maternal gatekeeping
… previous studies of the determinants of paternal involvement in infant care have produced equivocal findings due to the failure to consider maternal attitudes with respect to father involvement in child care. This study of paternal involvement employed a two-pronged strategy: (a) a large sample …
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