Father Beliefs as a Mediator between Contextual Barriers and Father Involvement

Autor/inn/en	Freeman, Harry; Newland, Lisa A.; Coyl, Diana D.
Titel	Father Beliefs as a Mediator between Contextual Barriers and Father Involvement
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 178 (2008) 7-8, S.803-819 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Early Intervention; Disadvantaged Youth; Parenting Styles; Child Rearing; Risk; Questionnaires; Fathers; Parent Attitudes; Barriers; Parent Participation; Young Children; Self Efficacy; Parenting Skills; Parent Responsibility; Time Management; Family Work Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Play; Socialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Kindererziehung; Risiko; Fragebogen; Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Frühe Kindheit; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Zeitmanagement; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Spiel; Socialisation; Sozialisation
Abstract	Fathers' beliefs were examined as mediators between multiple risk factors and involvement practices with children age zero to five enrolled in Head Start or Early Head Start. A diverse sample of 101 fathers, living in rural Midwestern communities of the USA completed questionnaires assessing "mediators" (i.e. parenting efficacy, role beliefs, and responsibility to an intervention program), "barriers" (e.g. lack of time, energy, work constraints), and "father involvement" (i.e. physical play, didactic engagement, caregiving, socialisation, involvement in the program, and accessibility). In each of the regression models, father efficacy and beliefs reduced the influence of barriers and were significant unique predictors of father involvement. Findings suggest that fathers' beliefs are more proximal to parenting practices than is family context, which have implications for early intervention programs serving children in at-risk families. (Contains 2 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10