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- Title
FATHERING AND ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT: VARIATIONS BY FAMILY STRUCTURE AND ETHNIC BACKGROUND.
- Authors
LEIDY, MELINDA S.; SCHOFIELD, THOMAS J.; MILLER, MARIE A.; PARKE, ROSS D.; COLTRANE, SCOTT; BRAVER, SANFORD; COOKSTON, JEFFREY; FABRICIUS, WILLIAM; SAENZ, DELIA; ADAMS, MICHELE
- Abstract
The current study investigated how fathering behaviors (acceptance, rejection, monitoring, consistent discipline, and involvement) are related to preadolescent adjustment in Mexican American and European American stepfamilies and intact families. Cross-sectional data from 393 7th graders, their schoolteachers, and parents were used to examine links between different dimensions of fathering and adolescent outcomes. Following an ecological multivariate model, family SES, marital satisfaction, and mothers' parenting were included as controls. In all contexts, fathering had significant effects on adolescent adjustment. Both mothers' parenting and adolescent gender moderated the associations, and we uncovered some provocative nonlinear relations between fathering and adolescent outcomes. The importance of ethnicity and family structure in studies of fathering are highlighted.
- Subjects
SOUTHWESTERN United States; HYPOTHESIS; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); ANALYSIS of variance; ANXIETY; COMPUTER software; CONCEPTUAL structures; STATISTICAL correlation; MENTAL depression; FATHERS; HISPANIC Americans; INTERVIEWING; MATHEMATICAL models; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; STEPFAMILIES; WHITE people; THEORY; DATA analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0901.44