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- Title
Father Enrollment and Participation in a Parenting Intervention: Personal and Contextual Predictors.
- Authors
Wong, Jessie J.; Roubinov, Danielle S.; Gonzales, Nancy A.; Dumka, Larry E.; Millsap, Roger E.
- Abstract
Fathers are an important, though often underrepresented, population in family interventions. Notably, the inclusion of ethnic minority fathers is particularly scarce. An understanding of factors that promote and hinder father participation may suggest strategies by which to increase fathers' presence in studies designed to engage the family unit. The current research examined Mexican origin ( MO) fathers' involvement in a family-focused intervention study. Participants included 495 fathers from eligible two-parent MO families with an adolescent child. Individual, familial, and culturally relevant predictors based on father, mother, and/or child report data were collected through pretest interviews and included in two separate logistic regression analyses that predicted the following: (1) father enrollment in the study and (2) father participation in the intervention. Results indicated that higher levels of maternal education and lower levels of economic stress and interparental conflict were associated with increased father enrollment in the study. Rates of father participation in the intervention were higher among families characterized by lower levels of interparental conflict, economic stress, and Spanish language use. Results highlight the relevancy of the familial and environmental context to MO fathers' research participation decisions. These findings as well as their implications for future research and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
FATHERS; PARENTING education; HISPANIC Americans; INTERVIEWING; PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SELF-evaluation; LOGISTIC regression analysis; FAMILY relations; PRE-tests &; post-tests; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EDUCATION; EVALUATION
- Publication
Family Process, 2013, Vol 52, Issue 3, p440
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12024