Relations between Coparenting and Father Involvement in Families with Preschool-Age Children

Autor/inn/en	Jia, Rongfang; Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.
Titel	Relations between Coparenting and Father Involvement in Families with Preschool-Age Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 1, S.106-118 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0020802
Schlagwörter	Play; Structural Equation Models; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; Child Rearing; Parent Participation; Young Children; Longitudinal Studies; Parenting Styles; Caregivers; Cooperation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindererziehung; Elternmitwirkung; Frühe Kindheit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	A sample (N = 112) composed primarily of European American and middle-class two-parent families with a resident father and a 4-year-old child (48% girls) participated in a longitudinal study of associations between coparenting and father involvement. At the initial assessment and 1 year later, fathers reported on their involvement in play and caregiving activities with the focal child, and coparenting behavior was observed during triadic family interactions. Structural equation modeling was used to test cross-lagged associations between coparenting behavior and father involvement. Overall, paths from father involvement to coparenting behavior were significant, but paths from coparenting behavior to father involvement were not. Specifically, greater father involvement in play was associated with an increase in supportive and a decrease in undermining coparenting behavior over time. In contrast, greater father involvement in caregiving was associated with a decrease in supportive and an increase in undermining coparenting behavior. Multigroup analysis further showed that these cross-lagged relations did not differ for dual-earner families and single-earner (father) families, but these relations appeared to differ for families with focal daughters and families with focal sons. These findings highlight the potential for fathering to affect coparenting and the importance of the role of contextual factors in coparenting-fathering relations. (Contains 7 footnotes, 3 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10