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- Title
PATTERNS OF FATHER SELF-EVALUATIONS AMONG MEXICAN AND EUROPEAN AMERICAN MEN AND LINKS TO ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT.
- Authors
Perez-Brena, Norma J.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Fabricius, William V.; Saenz, Delia
- Abstract
A mixed-method study identified profiles of fathers who mentioned key dimensions of their parenting and linked profile membership to adolescents' adjustment using data from 337 European American, Mexican American and Mexican immigrant fathers and their early adolescent children. Father narratives about what fathers do well as parents were thematically coded for the presence of five fathering dimensions: emotional quality (how well father and child get along), involvement (amount of time spent together), provisioning (the amount of resources provided), discipline (the amount and success in parental control), and role modeling (teaching life lessons through example). Next, latent class analysis was used to identify three patterns of the likelihood of mentioning certain fathering dimensions: an emotionally-involved group mentioned emotional quality and involvement; an affective- control group mentioned emotional quality, involvement, discipline and role modeling; and an affective-model group mentioned emotional quality and role modeling. Profiles were significantly associated with subsequent adolescents' reports of adjustment such that adolescents of affective-control fathers reported significantly more externalizing behaviors than adolescents of emotionally-involved fathers.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENCE; FAMILIES; FATHERS; HISPANIC Americans; IMMIGRANTS; INTERVIEWING; LATENT structure analysis; RESEARCH methodology; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALES (Weighing instruments); SELF-perception; STATISTICS; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; WHITE people; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; NARRATIVES; THEMATIC analysis; MEDICAL coding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.1002.213