Father Involvement and Child Well-Being in Poor Families

贫困家庭的父亲参与和儿童福祉

• 批准号: 6572929
• 负责人: REBEKAH Levine COLEY
• 金额: $ 7.7万
• 依托单位: BOSTON COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6572929
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; family structure /dynamics; father child interaction; human data; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; preschool child (1-5); quality of life; social behavior; socioeconomics; urban poverty area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Numerous demographic and economic changes over the past decades have led to complex family systems with diverse and unclearly defined roles for fathers, and have significantly increased research and policy interests in delineating fathers' influence on child well-being. The current research proposes an integrated series of analyses using data from the Three City Study of Welfare, Children and Families, a new multimethod, longitudinal project on predominantly African American and Hispanic children in low-income families in urban neighborhoods. These data provide rich information on both residential and nonresidential fathers, family processes, and child outcomes from a variety of sources, including father, mother and child reports, direct assessments, and observations. The proposed research will inject a developmental and family systems perspective within an economic and sociological theoretical framework that considers the impact of fathers' financial, human, and social capital on children's healthy developmental trajectories. The primary goals of this research are: (1) to delineate the independent effects over time of fathers' financial, human and social capital on preschool children's cognitive skills, prosocial behaviors, and emotional and behavioral problems; (2) to delineate the moderating impact of fathers' residence status, mother-father conflict, and fathers' race/ethnicity; and (3) to address whether fathers' impacts are mediated through the home environment and maternal functioning. Based on previous research and theory, the following hypotheses are developed. (1) Fathers' financial capital will function similarly for residential and nonresidential fathers, will be mediated through the quality of the home environment and maternal stress, and will have a primary impact on children's cognitive outcomes. (2) Fathers' human capital will have a stronger impact on children's cognitive and socio-emotional functioning for residential versus nonresidential fathers and will be mediated by the quality of the home environment. (3) Fathers' social capital will be the most significant predictor of children's cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes, will be moderated by parental conflict, and will be partially mediated through the quality of the home environment and maternal functioning. Multiple regression and structural equation path modeling techniques will be employed.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的几十年中，许多人口和经济变化导致了复杂的家庭体系，这些家庭系统具有多样化和未明确定义的父亲的角色，并且在描述父亲对儿童幸福感的影响方面的研究和政策兴趣大大增加了。当前的研究提出了一系列综合分析，使用来自三个城市福利，儿童和家庭研究的数据，这是一个新的多途径，主要是非裔美国人和西班牙裔儿童的纵向项目，在城市社区的低收入家庭中。这些数据提供了有关住宅和非居民父亲，家庭过程以及来自各种来源的儿童成果的丰富信息，包括父亲，母亲和儿童报告，直接评估和观察。拟议的研究将在经济和社会学理论框架内注入发展和家庭系统的观点，该框架考虑了父亲的财务，人力和社会资本对儿童健康发展轨迹的影响。 这项研究的主要目标是：（1）描述父亲的财务，人力和社会资本对学龄前儿童的认知技能，亲社会行为以及情感和行为问题的独立影响； （2）描述父亲的居住地位，母亲冲突和父亲的种族/种族的调节影响； （3）解决父亲的影响是否是通过家庭环境和母体功能介导的。根据先前的研究和理论，得出了以下假设。 （1）父亲的金融资本将对住宅和非住宅父亲的运作类似，将通过家庭环境和孕产妇压力的质量进行调解，并将对儿童的认知结果产生主要影响。 （2）父亲的人力资本将对儿童的认知和社会情感功能产生更大的影响，对住宅与非居民父亲的关系，将由家庭环境的质量介导。 （3）父亲的社会资本将成为儿童认知和社会情感成果的最重要预测指标，并将受到父母冲突的调节，并将通过家庭环境的质量和孕产妇功能来部分介导。将采用多元回归和结构方程路径建模技术。