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- Title: Identity, Intimacy, And Father Involvement.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 187 KB
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Sixty-eight new parents participated in a longitudinal study of psychosocial development and father involvement by completing surveys, once during the last trimester of pregnancy, then again when their child was between three and six months old. Data pertaining to the fathers' identity (e.g., the pattern employed for seeking information regarding one's self) and both spouses' reports of marital intimacy was collected during the prenatal phase of the study, and data for both spouses' perceptions of father involvement was collected in the postnatal phase of the study. Results indicate that a normative identity (i.e., adopting values from authority figures) is associated with less marital intimacy, while a diffuse identity (i.e., not active in considering own identity) is associated with greater marital intimacy. Diffuse fathers view themselves as more involved than fathers who are information (i.e., actively seek information regarding one's identity) or normative oriented; mothers perceive greatest levels of involvement when their spouses are normative oriented. For approximately the past two decades, the topic of father involvement has generated considerable discussion among family and human development scholars and researchers. Research has shown that father involvement tends to promote children's well-being in physical, emotional, and mental domains (Diamond, 1995; Farver & Wimbarti, 1995; Kelley, Smith, Green, Berndt, & Rogers, 1998; Kerns & Barth, 1995). These positive outcomes naturally lead to a related question, "What predicts involved fatherhood?"
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