Transactional Family Processes Supporting Father Involvement and Child Socio-emotional Wellbeing

支持父亲参与和儿童社会情感健康的家庭事务过程

• 批准号: 9304768
• 负责人: Inna Altschul
• 金额: $ 46.24万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9304768
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African American; Behavior; Birth; Child; Child Rearing; Childbirth; Childhood; Conflict (Psychology); Couples; Data; Development; Emotional; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Extended Family; Faculty; Family; Family Process; Family Study; Fathers; Funding; Hispanics; Household; Infant; Institution; Interpersonal Violence; Intervention; Latino; Life; Link; Low income; Mental Health; Modeling; Mothers; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Problem behavior; Process; Public Health; Race; Reporting; Reproducibility; Research; Role; Scholarship; Schools; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Social Work; Source; Students; Subgroup; Surveys; Systems Theory; Testing; Theoretical model; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Unmarried; Unmarried Father; Variant; affection; antisocial behavior; base; effective intervention; ethnic diversity; expectation; experience; externalizing behavior; improved; lower income families; physical conditioning; racial and ethnic; racial diversity; resilience; student participation

Abstract: An increasing proportion of children are born to parents who are unmarried at the time of the child’s birth. Children in such families, often termed “fragile families”, are more likely to experience low father involvement or absence (LFIA) during childhood, which is in turn associated with a range of deleterious developmental outcomes. Despite the substantial scholarship on family processes, important questions remain about predictors of LFIA and about the family processes associated with LFIA. Using data on 5,102 racially diverse, low-income couples from the Building Strong Families (BSF) study, the studies proposed here aim to fill this gap by, first, testing a transactional model of couple relationship and co-parenting relationship quality, along with father involvement to examine how couple and parenting relationship dynamics are linked to LFIA (Aim 1). Secondly, we will examine how couple relationship, co- parenting, and parenting behaviors including LFIA are linked to children’s socio-emotional outcomes (Aim 2). Finally, we will examine variability in these processes based on (a) race- ethnicity, and (b) residential and non-residential father households (Aim 3). The proposed studies will provide advances in the understanding of family processes that are associated with LFIA and socio-emotional outcomes for children in fragile families, and provide targets for intervention to increase father involvement and promote children’s socio-emotional wellbeing. The proposed studies will include doctoral and masters level students at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, thus fulfilling the AREA R15 priority to provide students at an organization without substantial NIH funding with exposure to rigorous research and opportunity to participate in all aspects of the research process. This project will also strengthen the scientific environment at the applicant institution by promoting rigorous federally funded research among faculty.

抽象的： 越来越多的孩子是父母在生孩子时未婚的 这些家庭（通常被称为“脆弱家庭”）中的孩子更有可能出生。 童年时期经历过父亲参与度较低或缺席（LFIA），这反过来又会导致 尽管有很大的影响，但仍与一系列有害的发育结果有关。 关于家庭过程的学术研究，关于 LFIA 的预测因子和关于 与 LFIA 相关的家庭流程使用 5,102 名不同种族的低收入人士的数据。 来自“建立坚强家庭”（BSF）研究的夫妇，这里提出的研究旨在填补这个问题 首先，测试夫妻关系和共同养育关系的交易模型 质量以及父亲的参与来检查夫妻和养育关系如何 动态与 LFIA 相关（目标 1）。其次，我们将研究夫妻关系、共同关系如何 养育方式以及包括 LFIA 在内的养育行为与儿童的社会情感相关 最后，我们将基于 (a) 种族来检查这些过程的变异性。 种族，以及 (b) 住宅和非住宅父亲家庭（目标 3）。 研究将有助于加深对与以下问题相关的家庭过程的理解： LFIA 和脆弱家庭儿童的社会情感结果，并为 干预以增加父亲的参与并促进儿童的社会情感健康。 拟议的研究将包括研究生院的博士和硕士水平的学生 丹佛大学社会工作学院，从而实现了 AREA R15 优先事项，为学生提供 没有大量 NIH 资助但有严格研究和机会的组织 参与研究过程的各个方面。 通过促进严格的联邦资助来改善申请机构的科学环境 教师之间的研究。