PARENTING ALLIANCE ASA PREDICTOR OF FATHER INVOLVEMENT - AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY

Citation
Ba. Mcbride et Tr. Rane, PARENTING ALLIANCE ASA PREDICTOR OF FATHER INVOLVEMENT - AN EXPLORATORY-STUDY, Family relations, 47(3), 1998, pp. 229-236
Citations number
49
Categorie Soggetti
Family Studies","Social Work
Journal title
ISSN journal
01976664
Volume
47
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
229 - 236
Database
ISI
SICI code
0197-6664(1998)47:3<229:PAAPOF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the relationship between perceptions of the parenting alliance, marital quality, and th e amount of involvement fathers have in raising their young children. Subjects were 89 predominately White, two-parent families with prescho ol aged children. Self-report and interview data were collected to mea sure each parent's participation in three categories of parental invol vement (interaction, accessibility, and responsibility), as well as pe rceptions of the parenting alliance and marital quality. Multiple regr ession procedures suggested that fathers' perceptions of spouses' conf idence in their own parenting, as well as mother's emotional appraisal of their partners' parenting and their shared parenting philosophy we re significant predictors of father involvement in child rearing activ ities. Results are discussed in terms of future research on paternal i nvolvement, as well as for the development of intervention programs de signed to facilitate increased levels of father. involvement in child rearing.