Open AccessLatino resident fathers’ early involvement with infants.
Author(s) -
Elizabeth M. Planalp,
Angelica Frausto,
Julia M. BraungartRieker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychology of men and masculinity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1939-151X
pISSN - 1524-9220
DOI - 10.1037/men0000325
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , psychology , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , population , context (archaeology) , longitudinal study , identity (music) , social psychology , demography , sociology , medicine , paleontology , statistics , physics , mathematics , acoustics , cognitive psychology , biology , pathology
Despite the growing number of Latino families in the United States (Passel et al., 2011), Latino fathers are an understudied segment of the population. We examined a subsample of Latino residential fathers (n = 859) from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Measures of fathers' generational status and fathering beliefs, including adherence to traditional gender roles and fathering identity salience, were collected at child's birth; father involvement was collected at infant age one year. We tested longitudinal mediations between fathers' generational status, fathering beliefs, and involvement using structural equation modeling. Fathers' generational status impacted the amount of time fathers spend with their children in tasks relating to direct caregiving, but not necessarily cognitive engagement. Findings highlight the importance of considering cultural context in early Latino father involvement.