Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement

by Day; Randal D.

• ISBN13: 9780805843590
• ISBN10: 0805843590
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing the more traditional economic support of the family, fathers do indeed matter when it comes to raising a child. Stemming from a series of workshops and publications sponsored by the Family and Child Well-Being Network, under the federal fatherhood initiative of the National Institute of Child Health and Development, this comprehensive volume focuses on ways of measuring the efficacy of father involvement in different scenarios, using different methods of assessment and different populations. In the process, new research strategies and new parental paradigms have been formulated to include paternal involvement. Moreover, this volume contains articles from a variety of influences while addressing the task of finding the missing pieces of the fatherhood construct that would work for new age, as well as traditional and minority fathers. The scope of this discussion offers topics of interest to basic researchers, as well as public policy analysts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xvii
1 Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement: Pathways, Problems, and Progress	1	(16)
Randal D. Day and Michael E. Lamb
2 Assessing Father Involvement in Mexican-American Families	17	(22)
Ross D. Parke, Scott Coltrane, Sharon Borthwick-Duffy, Justina Powers, Michele Adams, William Fabricius, Sandford Braver, and Delia Saenz
3 Father Involvement in Britain: The Research and Policy Evidence	39	(22)
Lynda Clarke and Margaret O'Brien
4 Studying Fathering Trajectories: In-depth Interviewing and Sensitizing Concepts	61	(22)
William Marsiglio
5 A Narrative Approach to Paternal Identity: The Importance of Parental Identity: "Conjointness"	83	(26)
Joseph H. Pleck and Jeffrey L. Stueve
6 A Narrative Approach to Exploring Responsible Involvement of Fathers with Their Special-Needs Children	109	(20)
David C. Dollahite
7 Internal Reliability, Temporal Stability, and Correlates of Individual Differences in Paternal Involvement: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study in Sweden	129	(20)
Susan S. Chuang, Michael E. Lamb, and C. Philip Hwang
8 A Multimethod Study of Father Participation in Family-Based Programming	149	(36)
Stephen Gavazzi and Angie Schock
9 Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese Sample: Associations with Boys' and Girls' Negative Emotionality and Aggression	185	(32)
Chongming Yang, Craig H. Hart, David A. Nelson, Christin L. Porter, Susanne F. Olsen, Clyde C. Robinson, and Shenghua Jin
10 Measuring Father Involvement in Divorced, Nonresident Fathers	217	(24)
Kay Pasleg and Sanford L. Braver
11 Early Father Involvement in Fragile Families	241	(32)
Marcia J. Carlson and Sara S. McLanahan
12 Youth Ratings of Family Processes and Father Role Performance of Resident and Nonresident Fathers	273	(20)
Randal D. Day and Alan Acock
13 Father Involvement and the Diversity of Family Context	293	(28)
Kathleen Mullan Harris and Suzanne Ryan
14 Multiple Determinants of Father Involvement: An Exploratory Analysis Using the PSID-CDS Data Set	321	(20)
Brent A. McBride, Sarah J. Schoppe, Moon-Ho Ho and Thomas R. Rane
15 Measuring Mother and Father Shared Caregiving: An Analysis Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement	341	(18)
Allison Sidle Fuligni and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
16 Violent Men, Bad Dads? Fathering Profiles of Men Involved in Intimate Partner Violence	359	(26)
Greer Litton Fox and Michael L. Benson
17 Fathering Indicators for Practice and Evaluation: The Fathering Indicators Framework	385	(32)
Vivian L. Gadsden, Jay Fagan, Aisha Ray, and James E. Davis
18 The DADS Initiative: Measuring Father Involvement in Large-Scale Surveys	417	(36)
Natasha Cabrera, Kristin Moore, Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew, Tamara Halle, Jerry West, Jean Brooks-Gunn, Nancy Reichman, Julien Teitler, Kirsten Ellingsen, Christine W. Nord, and Kimberly Boller
Author Index	453	(12)
Subject Index	465