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- Title
Father Involvement and Adolescent Adjustment: Longitudinal Findings from Add Health.
- Authors
Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Finlay, Andrea K.
- Abstract
Based on two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, evidence from 2,387 adolescents tested the hypothesis that mothers and fathers in two-parent families make unique, additive contributions to the delinquency, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use behaviors of their children. Cross-sectional and longitudinal structural equation models were used to explain variance in problematic outcomes. Before controlling for baseline scores, the cross-sectional and longitudinal results supported the conclusion that mother and father involvement explained unique variance in children's adjustment. For delinquency and alcohol behaviors, the associations were attenuated considerably when Wave 1 behaviors were held constant. For depressive symptoms, only father involvement was a practically significant predictor. Results are discussed in light of methodological considerations pertaining to investigations of parent involvement during adolescence.
- Subjects
FATHER-child relationship; FATHERS; FATHERHOOD; MENTAL depression; CRIME
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2006, Vol 4, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0402.137