Father involvement program effects on fathers, father figures, and their head start children: a quasi-experimental study

Fagan, Jay; Iglesias, Aquiles

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“…Esta diferencia pudiera explicarse a partir de las investigaciones que señalan una relación entre adecuada calidad de la interacción padre-hijo y mayores habilidades cognitivas (Fagan & Iglesias, 1999).…”

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“…Algunos autores describen diferencias cualitativas entre el tipo de juego que establece un padre con su hijo y el que desarrolla la madre, señalando que los padres generan un juego más vivaz y estimulante, que eleva el estado general de excitación en el niño, lo que repercute positivamente en su desarrollo afectivo y cognitivo (Brazelton & Cramer, 1993). En relación con los beneficios de la presencia del padre, algunos estudios muestran que un adecuado vínculo padrehijo se asocia a ausencia de problemas conductuales en los niños (Verschueren & Marcoen, 1999) a alta sociabilidad y a adecuado desarrollo cognitivo infantil (Fagan & Iglesias, 1999).…”

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Presencia del padre y calidad de la interacción madre-hijo: un estudio comparativo en familias chilenas nucleares y monoparentales

Olhaberry

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2013

Univ Psychol

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r e S u M e n Estudios recientes muestran la influencia de la presencia del padre en la salud mental familiar, incidiendo, entre otras variables, en el vínculo madrehijo. Considerando este antecedente, se realizó un análisis comparativo de la calidad de la interacción madre-hijo en diadas pertenecientes a familias chilenas nucleares y monoparentales de bajos ingresos. Se estudiaron 80 diadas, 40 pertenecientes a familias monoparentales a cargo de madre y 40 pertenecientes a familias nucleares. Las edades de los niños estudiados varían entre 4 y 17 meses (M = 12.36, DE = 3.2) y las de las madres entre 15 y 44 años (M = 26.74, DE = 7.53). Se evaluó la respuesta sensible materna y la calidad de la interacción con el instrumento CARE-Index (Crittenden, 1997). Los resultados muestran interacciones de mayor calidad en las diadas pertenecientes a familias nucleares, con diferencias significativas y tamaños de efecto mediano en los aspectos cognitivos de la interacción. Palabras clave autoresFamilias monoparentales, familias nucleares, calidad de la interacción. Palabras clave descriptores Psicología del desarrollo, vínculo, teoría afectiva. a b S t r a c tRecent studies show the importance of the father's presence on the family's mental health, affecting, among others, on the mother-child bond. Considering this information, the present study does a comparative analysis of the quality of mother-child interaction on dyads of nuclear and single-mother, Chilean, low-income families. 80 Dyads were studied, 40 belonging to singlemother families and 40 to nuclear families. The children's ages were between 4 and 17 months (M = 12.36, SD = 3.2) and the mothers between 15 and 44 years old (M = 26.74, SD = 7.53). The mother's sensitivity answer and the quality of the interaction were evaluated with the CARE-Index (Crittenden, 1997) instrument. The results show a greater interaction quality among nuclear families, with important differences and medium effect sizes on the cognitive aspects of the interaction.

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Presencia del padre y calidad de la interacción madre-hijo: un estudio comparativo en familias chilenas nucleares y monoparentales

Olhaberry

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2013

Univ Psychol

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“…Implications for programs include: Fagan and Iglesias (1999) suggests a positive association between high levels of participation of fathers in Head Start-based intervention programs and increased father involvement with children. An Urban Institute study (Sorensen, Mincy and Halpern, 2000) reported that fathers in "fragile families," families in which mothers and fathers were not married, were most likely to be present around the birth of the child and more likely to disappear as children grew older.…”

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Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs

Raikes

Summers

Roggman

2005

Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Me

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A survey of all Early Head Start programs funded from [1995][1996][1997][1998] Levine et al. (1998), revealed that programs seem to pass through a predictable sequence of stages towards ever more complex and purposeful father involvement; we found strong evidence for this stage-like progression in the current study. Mature programs were characterized by greater father involvement, more goals and program activities for fathers, a different pattern of perceived barriers, more successful solutions to challenging situations, and greater likelihood of identifying staff for father involvement, providing father involvement training, recruiting using men; reaching out to nonresident as well as resident fathers and working with partners within the community than programs at large. To a lesser extent there was also variation as a result of program approach (whether serving families through home-based services; center-based services or a combination or mixed approach). Programs also varied according to the race/ethnicity of the families served, whether predominantly (50% or more) African American, Hispanic, white, Native American or families from a mixture of races and ethnic backgrounds, illustrating the importance of the cultural component of father involvement in programs. Many of the findings have implications for program practices. !The questions the study addressed are as follows.• Slightly more than a third of the programs (37%) included at least one father who was the primary caregiver of his child/ren; 18 programs reported 3 or more custodial fathers.There is considerable variation across programs in the population of fathers of Early Head Start children. Programs are likely to have different experiences with father involvement due to variability in the fatherhood population. Some programs serve a higher percentage of resident fathers. For example, home-based programs report that 48.8% of their children have resident fathers. Programs serving Hispanic families, 56.9%; those serving smaller proportions of teen parents, 47.2%, and those in rural areas, 46.6%, report more children with resident fathers than their counterparts. Other programs serve a higher percentage of involved, nonresident fathers. For example, programs serving African American children reported that 37.3% of their children had an involved, nonresident father; the percent of involved nonresident fathers was also higher in center-based programs (31.6%), among those serving a high proportion of teen parents (31.7%) and in urban areas (34.1%).The programs themselves also vary. Most programs think of themselves as novices when it comes to father involvement (early stage = 72%); some think they are somewhat more experienced (mid-stage = 21%) and a few regard themselves as experts in father involvement (mature = 7%). Mature programs were more likely to be found in among Wave I programs, to be serving African American families, to be slightly larger than the average program in the study and to be serving families with a higher proportion of nonresiden...

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“…These benefits have led to the development of numerous programs designed to enhance father involvement (Doherty, Erickson, & LaRossa, 2006;Fagan & Iglesias, 1999; see for a review Cowan, Cowan, Pruett, Pruett, & Wong, 2009). Understanding the determinants of father involvement informs such programs and provides a number of potential routes for intervention.…”

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Parents’ Involvement in Childcare

Gaunt

Scott

2014

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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The current study draws on identity theory to explore mothers' and fathers' involvement in childcare. It examined the AQ 2 relationships between the salience and centrality of individuals' parental and work-related identities and the extent to which they are involved in various forms of childcare. A sample of 148 couples with at least one child aged 6 years old or younger completed extensive questionnaires. As hypothesized, the salience and centrality of parental identities were positively related to mothers' and fathers' involvement in childcare. Moreover, maternal identity salience was negatively related to fathers' hours of childcare and share of childcare tasks. Finally, work hours mediated the negative relationships between the centrality of work identities and time invested in childcare, and gender moderated this mediation effect. That is, the more central a mother's work identity, the more hours she worked for pay and the fewer hours she invested in childcare. These findings shed light on the role of parental identities in guiding behavioral choices and attest to the importance of distinguishing between identity salience and centrality as two components of self-structure.

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Father involvement program effects on fathers, father figures, and their head start children: a quasi-experimental study

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Presencia del padre y calidad de la interacción madre-hijo: un estudio comparativo en familias chilenas nucleares y monoparentales

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