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- Title
Good Fathering: Father and Son Perceptions of What It Means to Be a Good Father.
- Authors
Morman, Mark T.; Floyd, Kory
- Abstract
The present article details two exploratory studies on the nature of fatherhood and on the behavioral and psychological characteristics that define a good father. In the first study, 374 adult men who were fathers of at least one child responded to an open-ended question regarding the attributes of a good father. Inductive analyses of their responses yielded a 20-item list of referents. The second study involved 99 pairs of fathers and adolescent or young adult sons who responded to the same question. Their responses were coded along the same dimensions and were compared within dyads and with the results from the first study. Implications for future study on father-child relationships are discussed.
- Subjects
FATHER-son relationship; PARENTING; CHILD rearing; FATHERHOOD; MEN'S studies
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2006, Vol 4, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0402.113