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- Title
Another Cautionary Note on Interpreting Regression Results in Family Research: A Comment on Peterson and Gerson (1992).
- Authors
Hawkins, Alan J.; Olsen, Joseph A.
- Abstract
The article presents a commentary on interpretations of regression results in an article by Richard A. Peterson and Kathleen Gerson on a an issue of the "Journal of Marriage and Family." The proportion of fathers reporting that they make most of the arrangements does increase quite a bit when two children are added to the household, from 4% to about 13%. Still, even when two children are added to the household, the proportion of men who make most or all of the arrangements increases only from 24% to 37%. Moreover, women report much less involvement on the part of their husband in making child care arrangements than husbands do. Thus, this article reminds family scholars to go beyond the numbers generated by statistical analyses to the meaning of those numbers as they are likely to be played out in human terms.
- Subjects
FAMILY research; REGRESSION analysis; GERSON, Kathleen; HOUSEHUSBANDS; MARRIED people; CHILD care
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1993, Vol 55, Issue 2, p505
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/352819