Applying Pleck's Model of Paternal Involvement to the Study of Preschool Attachment Quality: A Proof of Concept Study

Autor/inn/en	Kennedy, Mark; Betts, Lucy; Dunn, Thomas; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Underwood, Jean
Titel	Applying Pleck's Model of Paternal Involvement to the Study of Preschool Attachment Quality: A Proof of Concept Study
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 185 (2015) 4, S.603-615 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2014.944907
Schlagwörter	Models; Preschool Education; Attachment Behavior; Child Development; Fathers; Parent Participation; Parent Influence; Preschool Children; Observation; Aggression; Parent Child Relationship; Peer Relationship; Questionnaires; Family Environment; Interaction Process Analysis; Mothers; One Parent Family; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Kindesentwicklung; Elternmitwirkung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Beobachtung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Fragebogen; Familienmilieu; Prozessanalyse; Mother; Mutter; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Recent re-conceptualisation of paternal involvement (Pleck, J. H. (2010). Paternal involvement: Revised conceptualization and theoretical linkages with child outcomes. In M. Lamb (Ed.), "The role of the father in child development" (5th ed., pp. 67-107). London: Wiley), while proving fruitful, has yet to be applied to investigations into what extent a father's level of involvement may affect child-peer interactions in the preschool age range, over and above the effects of mother-child attachment quality and socio-economic status (SES). Patterns of associations between attachment quality, sensitivity and general caregiving behaviours have also yet to be compared in equally involved mothers and fathers. Thirty preschool children (17 males:13 females) with similar SES profiles and their immediate caregivers participated in hour-long observations, conducted in the home. Even when attachment quality was controlled for, children with low paternal involvement were found to have higher levels of child-peer aggression. Further, patterns of effects between caregiver sensitivity, child-caregiver attachment quality and general caregiver interactions were similar for equally involved mothers and fathers. These preliminary data support the concept of applying Pleck's (2010) re-conceptualisation of paternal involvement to preschool attachment, and have implications towards the wider study of child-father attachment. Limitations of the current study and directions for future research are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01