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Accounting for Patterns of Father Involvement: Age of Child, Father‐Child Coresidence, and Father Role Salience
Author(s) -
Bruce Carol,
Fox Greer Litton
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1999.tb00881.x
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , salient , psychology , developmental psychology , multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , political science , medicine , statistics , mathematics , law , cognitive psychology
This study examines the extent to which fathers are involved in parenting their children under several conditions, using a multivariate regression model. The model includes the age of the child, father role salience, and the father and child's coresidential status as predictors of father involvement. Although nonresidential fathers tend to be less involved than residential fathers under most conditions, this is not the case for fathers of adolescents who find the father role to be at least moderately salient. Explanations for their greater involvement are proposed, focusing specifically on the unique characteristics of the parent‐child relationship involving an adolescent child and a nonresidential parent.