Family Stress Processes Underlying Material Hardship and Parental Detachment and Warmth Amongst Racially Diverse Fathers and Mothers with Low Income

Lee, Joyce Y.; Lee, Shawna J.; Yoon, Susan; Kirsch, Jaclyn; Pace, Garrett T.; Schoppe‐Sullivan, Sarah J.

doi:10.1007/s10896-023-00583-x

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“…This aligns with tenets of Pleck's (2010) revised theory of father involvement and findings from prior research suggesting that fathers' responsiveness may be a dimension that is important for children irrespective of fathers' resident status (Adamsons & Johnson, 2013;Amato & Gilbreth, 1999). Our findings also support those from prior studies that compared family processes involving parental warmth or predictors of father involvement among resident and nonresident father families, with results showing no significant differences in findings by fathers' resident status (Coley & Hernandez, 2006;Lee et al, 2023). That said, we are mindful that our findings are inconsistent with those of others, especially examining pathways between coparenting and father involvement (Altenburger, 2022;Fagan & Palkovitz, 2011;Lee et al, 2020).…”

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“…Relatedly, research suggests that parents who do not live together may be less likely to coparent well (Fagan et al, 2016) and less likely to share similar parenting styles (Teubert & Pinquart, 2010). However, it is equally important to note that prior research comparing family processes involving parental warmth among resident and nonresident father families with low income has demonstrated no differences in findings by fathers' resident status (Lee et al, 2023), suggesting additional research in this area is needed. As such, we examined fathers' resident status as a moderator of the associations primarily between shared parental responsiveness and children's developmental outcomes.…”

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Shared parental responsiveness among fathers and mothers with low income and early child outcomes

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Ward

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Family Relations

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ObjectiveInformed by the family systems theory, the current study aimed to examine whether shared parental responsiveness between fathers and mothers with low income was associated with preschoolers' developmental outcomes.BackgroundBoth fathers' and mothers' parental responsiveness are key contributors to their young children's development. However, the ways in which fathers and mothers work as a system, as well as the role of shared parental responsiveness in child development, are not well understood, especially among families from low‐income contexts.MethodParticipants were from the Building Strong Families project, a racially diverse group of families from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds (N = 1,173). Fathers' and mothers' parental responsiveness were observed during father–child and mother–child interactions using the two‐bags task. Preschoolers' child behavior problems, prosocial behaviors, and receptive language served as developmental outcomes of interest. A common fate approach to dyadic analysis was employed to create shared responsiveness and individual residual variance latent variables, which the child outcomes were regressed onto. Moderation analysis by fathers' resident status was conducted.ResultsShared responsiveness positively predicted preschoolers' prosocial behaviors (Β = 0.33, p < .001) and receptive language (Β = 14.85, p < .001), above and beyond individual residual variance. Fathers' resident status did not moderate any of the examined relationships.ConclusionThere may be benefits to young children's development when mothers and fathers demonstrate shared responsiveness.Implications.Interventions serving families with low income could help strengthen mother–father shared responsiveness to promote child development.

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Section: Fathers' Parental Responsiveness In Resident and Nonresident...mentioning

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Shared parental responsiveness among fathers and mothers with low income and early child outcomes

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Ward

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Paternal Self-Efficacy Scale for Nonresident Fathers: Scale Development and Validation

Trahan,

Banman,

Fagan

2024

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Previous research points to the importance of parenting self-efficacy in facilitating father engagement, thereby promoting optimal developmental outcomes in children. Nonresident fathers’ engagement differs from resident fathers, resulting in a need for a novel measure of paternal self-efficacy (PSE). This article presents two studies: Study 1—the development of a measure of nonresident PSE and Study 2—the validation of this measure with low-income, nonresident fathers. Nine focus groups were conducted at nine urban responsible fatherhood programs in low-income, high-poverty areas in the northeastern United States ( n = 71), yielding seven items for PSE. The Father Appraisal Inventory (FAI) was disseminated through a survey to nonresident fathers ( n = 542) in responsible father programs to assess convergent and predictive validity. Analyses demonstrated convergence with father satisfaction and predicted quantity and quality of father involvement and co-parenting.

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Family Stress Processes Underlying Material Hardship and Parental Detachment and Warmth Amongst Racially Diverse Fathers and Mothers with Low Income

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Shared parental responsiveness among fathers and mothers with low income and early child outcomes

Shared parental responsiveness among fathers and mothers with low income and early child outcomes

Paternal Self-Efficacy Scale for Nonresident Fathers: Scale Development and Validation

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