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Direct linkJuyoung Yoo – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Paternal involvement in household and childcare has increased over the past century, but global studies show that most mothers still remain responsible for a significantly higher proportion of total household care and childcare. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has further negatively impacted mothers, who take on the majority of childcare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Turner, Joshua J.; Stapley, Sarah; Bradford, Kay; Higginbotham, Brian J. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
As fatherhood education programs become more common and as the United States becomes increasingly diverse, efforts are needed to ensure that programs reach underrepresented groups. Using a mixed-method evaluation approach, this study examined the programmatic impacts and experiences of Latino fathers (n = 156) who participated in fatherhood…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Role, Hispanic Americans, Parent Education
Nilo Puglisi; Hervé Tissot; Valentine Rattaz; Manuella Epiney; Chantal Razurel; Nicolas Favez – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Research has shown that the quality of mother-infant interactions, as measured by mother-infant synchrony, is associated with infants' vagal tone, a physiological indicator of emotion regulation. However, little is known about the association between the infant's vagal tone and the quality of father-infant interactions. Existing literature…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Physiology
Michelle Flippin – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
The ability to repair breakdowns in communication is a critical pragmatic language skill. To date however, studies of repairs have been conducted with mothers or examiners. Little is known about repairs children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use in interactions with fathers. Expanding our understanding of communication repairs used with…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Thomas P. Hébert – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2024
The relationships of 10 gifted high-achieving Millennial males and their fathers were the focus of this qualitative research study. Through in-depth interviews, six significant themes were identified: father's strong work ethic and self-sacrifice, father as teacher of skills and life lessons, father's design and maintenance of father--son rituals,…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Academically Gifted, High Achievement, Males
Qiong Wu; Soojin Han; Dania Tawfiq; Karina Jalapa; Chorong Lee; Kinsey Pocchio – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated familial attachment-based processes in middle childhood, using 788 families (50.6% boys; 84.4% White), assessed six times from 4.5 years old to Grade 6. An adapted Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model revealed between-family associations among couple emotional intimacy, relationships with both parents, and child social…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Intimacy, Parent Child Relationship
Anne Christine Stuart; Ida Egmose; Katrine Isabella Wendelboe; Maiken Pontoppidan; Johanne Smith-Nielsen; Mette Skovgaard Vaever – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Observational instruments are proposed as the best method to assess the quality of parent-child interaction. However, the psychometric properties and theoretical foundations of these observational tools have been questioned. Further, very few studies have focussed on the construct validity of these instruments for father-child interaction quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Skills
Kelly S. Mix; Angelica Alonso; Jung-Jung Lee; Milagros Urioste-Resta; Natasha Cabrera; Stephanie Reich – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
The present study examined patterns of number-related utterances and actions directed to 9-month-old infants by their parents. An ethnically and economically diverse sample of 86 families participated in structured play sessions conducted separately with the mothers and fathers of each infant. Data were coded for eight math talk categories, and…
Descriptors: Parents, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Numeracy
Conica, Mirela; Kelly, Linda; Nixon, Elizabeth; Quigley, Jean – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
While the association between shared book reading (SBR) and child language development is well documented, there has been less focus on how book characteristics may differentially elicit parents' language input and hence differentially relate to children's language skills during this activity. Moreover, despite the positive and unique role that…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Shir Moshe; David Oppenheim; Michal Slonim; Lior Hamburger; Yael Maccabi; Nurit Yirmiya – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Most studies of how parents of children with autism view the parent-child relationship used self-report questionnaires and focused on challenges. This study broadened the lens by interviewing parents using open-ended questions that provide an opportunity to raise challenging but also positive experiences. Seventy-five mother-father dyads were…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kisla, Sule; Çetin, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study has been conducted to examine the relationship levels of fathers who have 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers, and their attachment status with their babies. The sample group consisted of 313 fathers. Fatherhood Scale and Father-Infant Attachment Scale have been applied to the fathers who participated in our study,…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Yang, Panpan; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Lippold, Melissa A. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
To understand whose parenting (mothers vs. fathers) and which type of parenting (warmth vs. hostility) is more important in predicting adolescent aggression, this study applied dominance analysis to evaluate the relative importance of four different parenting dimensions (maternal hostility, paternal hostility, maternal warmth, and paternal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers
Kerr, Margaret L.; Fanning, Kerrie A.; Engbretson, Ashleigh M.; Buttitta, Katherine V.; Borelli, Jessica L.; Smiley, Patricia A.; Rasmussen, Hannah F. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Though fatherhood research has recently burgeoned, extant literature primarily focuses on father characteristics and father--child interactions. A critical gap remains in understanding fathers' emotional experiences. Using the Parent Development Interview-Revised, 74 interviews with fathers of toddlers were coded using questions about six positive…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Role, Emotional Experience, Toddlers
Necati Enoz; Arzu Araz – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
In the current study, we aimed to investigate the mediating roles of paternal self-efficacy and relationship quality as serial mediators in associations with sexist attitudes and paternal involvement. For that purpose, a total of 420 married adult Turkish men with at least one child between the ages 4 and 10 participated, and the Ambivalent Sexism…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Fathers, Self Efficacy, Parent Child Relationship
