Paternal and maternal engagement across six Caribbean countries and childhood outcomes

Yildirim, Elif Dede; Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2017.08.007

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“…By using the Bayley Scales in which the child is directly assessed, our findings are also not biased by maternal perceptions of the child's development (although father involvement was reported by mothers) (J. Jeong et al, 2016;Yildirim & Roopnarine, 2017). It is noteworthy that father involvement, especially when the child was 1 year old, was associated with several domains of development, especially fine motor skills and cognitive function, although the estimates were not very precise, limiting inferences about differential effects across domains.…”

Section: Child Resultsmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…Such dynamic processes may, in part, also explain other null findings in the literature (J. Jeong et al, 2016) (Yildirim & Roopnarine, 2017). Several other reasons could explain the divergent findings.…”

Section: Child Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Jeong et al, 2016;S. Lewis et al, 2015;Sun & Roopnarine, 1996;Yildirim & Roopnarine, 2017). However, the vast majority of research on fathers remains focused in high income countries, where the expectations and nature of involvement reflect higher socioeconomic status on average.…”

Section: Income Countries (Lmic)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, a study from Ethiopia reported that height-for-age z scores for children under 2 were associated with father involvement (feeding, hygiene, and psychosocial support); other domains of child development were not measured (Abate & Belachew, 2017). A separate analysis of MICS data from six Caribbean countries found that paternal engagement (playing, singing, taking outside) was associated with child literacy skills in only two countries and with social skills in only one (Yildirim & Roopnarine, 2017).…”

Section: Father Involvement and Child Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan

Maselko

Hagaman

Bates

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Social Science & Medicine

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The contribution of fathers to child development and maternal mental health is increasingly acknowledged, although research on this topic outside of high income countries is limited. Using longitudinal data, we characterized father involvement in a rural setting in Pakistan and investigated the link between father involvement in the first year of life and child development and maternal depression. Data come from the Bachpan study, a birth cohort established in the context of a perinatal depression intervention. Father involvement was mother reported at 3 and 12 months postpartum and covered domains such as playing with or soothing the infant. Child outcomes included growth at 3, 6 and 12 months postpartum, socioemotional development at 6 months (Ages and Stages Questionnaire-socioemotional), and developmental milestones at 12 months (Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, BSID)). Maternal depression was assessed at 3, 6, and 12 months postpartum. Roughly 20% of the fathers were temporarily nonresident. Among the rest, most mothers reported that fathers were involved: for example, approximately 40% reported that the father plays with the baby on a typical day. We observed no clear pattern of association between 3-month father involvement and child growth at any time point; however, 12-month father involvement was cross-sectionally inversely associated with child growth. We observed a protective pattern of association between 3-month father involvement and 6-month child socioemotional development. For the BSID domains, while almost all effect estimates suggested a protective association with higher levels of father involvement/father being temporarily non-resident, the magnitude of the estimates was smaller and most 95% confidence intervals crossed the null. Finally, there was a trend toward greater father involvement/being temporary non-resident predicting lower levels of maternal depression. Using longitudinal data, these results provide new evidence about the association between father involvement, and both child development and maternal mental health.

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Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan

Maselko

Hagaman

Bates

et al. 2019

Social Science & Medicine

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“…A recent review of parenting practices across ethnically and linguistically diverse Caribbean countries suggests that there has been an overwhelmingly focus on the harsh parenting of mothers with limited consideration of positive parenting practices or father involvement and cognitive childhood outcomes (Lie-A-Ling, Zuuiber, & . Among the handful of studies that explored links between paternal involvement and childhood outcomes, father-child cognitive engagement activities showed inconsistent patterns or no significant associations with 4-and 5-year-old children's literacy skills in families across Belize, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname (Dede Yildirim & Roopnarine, 2017). Interestingly, preschool enrollment and the availability of books in the home, not paternal engagement, were reliable predictors of children's early literacy skills across several of these countries.…”

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Fathers’ Cognitive Engagement and Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills in Three Ethnic Groups in Trinidad and Tobago

Roopnarine

Yildirim

2019

Journal of Black Psychology

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Using the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, this study assessed the associations between fathers’ cognitive engagement and preschoolers’ literacy skills in African Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, and mixed-ethnic Caribbean families in Trinidad and Tobago. The sample consisted of 476 fathers and their preschool-aged children. Multigroup structural equation modeling indicated that paternal cognitive engagement was associated with children’s literacy skills in mixed-ethnic Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean families above and beyond maternal cognitive engagement activities. Across all groups, children’s age, number of hours in preschool, and number of children’s books in the home were associated with children’s literacy skills. Fathers’ residential status was associated with children’s literacy skills differently across ethnic groups. Findings are interpreted in terms of the importance and consistency of paternal engagement in the home environment for the acquisition of early language skills in developing countries.

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Socioeconomic and home educational resource risk factors and Children's literacy and social skills in Guyanese families: Mediating role of parental cognitive engagement and parental guidance

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This study examined the mediating role of parental cognitive engagement and parental guidance on the associations between family socioeconomic and home environment resource risk factors and children's literacy and social skills in Guyana. The sample consisted of 1208 families from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds drawn from the 2019 to 2020 country‐level UNICEF MICS data. Caregivers provided assessments of socioeconomic conditions, educational resources in the home environment, cognitive engagement, parental guidance and children's literacy and social skills. Family socioeconomic risk had an indirect association with social skills through cognitive engagement. Home environment educational resource risk had indirect associations with children's literacy and social skills through parental guidance. Findings are discussed in terms of identifying protective factors within families in low‐ and middle‐income Caribbean countries that can better inform intervention efforts geared at reducing risks to childhood development.

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Paternal and maternal engagement across six Caribbean countries and childhood outcomes

Cited by 18 publications

References 38 publications

Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan

Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan

Fathers’ Cognitive Engagement and Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills in Three Ethnic Groups in Trinidad and Tobago

Socioeconomic and home educational resource risk factors and Children's literacy and social skills in Guyanese families: Mediating role of parental cognitive engagement and parental guidance

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