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- Title
Parents' Relative Socioeconomic Status and Paternal Involvement in Chinese Families: The Mediating Role of Coparenting.
- Authors
Chang Liu; Xinchun Wu; Shengqi Zou
- Abstract
This study examined the mediating role of coparenting in the association between differences/similarities in paternal and maternal socioeconomic status (SES) and paternal involvement in Chinese families. The sample included 244 couples with children aged 3-7 years. Fathers and mothers reported their individual incomes, educational levels, occupations, and coparenting behavior (measured using the Coparenting Scale), and fathers completed the Father Involvement Questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was performed to examine the associations between SES and paternal involvement. Results suggested that SES indicator measures were outcome specific. Occupational differences/similarities were associated with paternal involvement indirectly, via fathers' family integrity practices. Income and educational differences/similarities did not affect paternal involvement. The results suggested that the traditional Chinese view that "men are chiefly responsible for activity in society, while women are responsible for the home" has faded.
- Subjects
CHINA; PART-time parenting; SOCIOECONOMICS; FAMILIES; PATERNALISM; STRUCTURAL equation modeling
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, p1
- ISSN
1664-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00940