The study of adolescent childbearing is a major public policy concern, and father involvement is a particular focus. Previous research with married couples has found that coparenting may be a better predictor of father involvement than relationship quality. The current study examined 94 primiparous African American and Latino parents to determine whether coparenting expectations during pregnancy better predict concurrent father involvement secondary to a mediation effect. Results were mixed; simple mediation was supported, but structural equation modeling (SEM) results suggested a better fitting model for mothers than for fathers. For mothers, relationship quality predicted coparenting. For fathers, relationship quality and coparenting predicted father involvement, but relationship quality did not predict coparenting. This examination suggests that both relationship quality and coparenting are important for father involvement in unmarried adolescents but to differing degrees for mothers and fathers. Pregnancy may be an important potential intervention point for increasing subsequent father involvement.

This study examined the relationships between referral source, career impacts, and diagnostic severity among service members seeking mental health intervention in a deployed setting. Data were drawn from the mental health records of 1,640 Army service members presenting for outpatient mental health services while deployed in Afghanistan. Results suggested that self-referrals were significantly less likely to have contact made with their command or to experience potentially career impacting recommendations. Overall, greater than 80% of military personnel were returned to duty with no limits and 60% were assigned either no diagnosis or a mild/moderate diagnosis. These findings indicate that seeking psychological services is much less likely to impact a service member's career when self-initiated. Given the significant concerns about career impacts among many service members in need of psychological services, these findings should be incorporated in information campaigns to promote early help seeking.

Past research has suggested that men are more upset by imagined sexual than emotional infidelity, and women are more upset by imagined emotional infidelity than sexual infidelity. However, experience with infidelity, methodology, and age and gender of the sample may help to explain inconsistent results. Two hundred ninety-four English-speaking undergraduate students and 325 noncollege adults in a large mid-Atlantic urban area of the U. S. completed forced-choice or continuous-scale anonymous questionnaires regarding jealousy over a mate's hypothetical infidelity. Chi-square and MANOVA analyses replicated previous findings of the expected gender difference in all hypothetical forced-choice scenarios. However, results for those participants who reported experience with actual infidelity demonstrated little support for the traditional evolutionary model, as there were no gender differences in which aspect of hypothetical infidelity was reported to be more distressing, and no gender differences at the college level in terms of which aspect of infidelity received the greatest focus. These findings, extrapolated from both undergraduates and adults and accounting for the impact of actual, primed memory of experience of infidelity on hypothetical jealousy scenarios, raise important questions about the validity of hypothetical scenarios of jealousy as proxies for real reactions to actual infidelity. The results of the present study suggest that the lack of a consistent, replicable gender difference across the lifespan may be explained by two related factors: age and actual experience with infidelity.

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Adolescent childbearing is a major public policy concern in the United States, and father involvement is a particular focus for researchers and members of socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority populations. In the present study, 52 lowincome, African American adolescent mothers and their children's fathers were interviewed during the prenatal period about their relationships, social networks, and racial identity. Coparenting was found to be associated with racial identity in that mothers and fathers who reported pre-encounter racial identity attitudes reported lower levels of coparenting satisfaction than mothers and fathers in the more advanced stages of racial identity. No associations were found between racial identity and father involvement. This study extends the literature on coparenting, father involvement and racial identity to a community sample of understudied young parents at risk for negative outcomes.