An Examination of Dependence Power, Father Involvement, and Judgments about Violence in an At-Risk Community Sample of Mothers

Autor/inn/en	Samp, Jennifer A.; Abbott, Leslie
Titel	An Examination of Dependence Power, Father Involvement, and Judgments about Violence in an At-Risk Community Sample of Mothers
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26 (2011) 18, S.3682-3698 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260511403746
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Disadvantaged Youth; Fathers; Violence; At Risk Persons; Power Structure; Parent Participation; Surveys; Preschool Children; Family Violence; Discipline; Correlation; Attitude Measures; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Child Rearing; Low Income Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Gewalt; Risikogruppe; Elternmitwirkung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Disziplin; Korrelation; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Kindererziehung
Abstract	Individuals sometimes remain in dysfunctional, and even violent, relationships due to a perceived dependence on a partner. We examined the influence of dependence power judgments (defined by a combined assessment of mother commitment, perceived father commitment, and perceived father alternatives) in a community sample of mothers potentially bound to a relationship with the father of her child. We also considered the influence of perceived father involvement in the child's life on judgments related to dependence power. Using a survey design with a sample of 100 mothers (age: 16-43, M = 29.16, SD = 7.17 years old) enrolled in a local Early Head Start/Head Start program, we observed that a mother's perceived father involvement was positively associated with judgments of her dependence power. Furthermore, we observed that her assessment of dependence power was negatively associated with her tolerance for both physical and psychological violence as well as the use of destructive child discipline tactics. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10