Coley R L
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Am Psychol. 2001 Sep;56(9):743-53.
The author aims to help make low-income, unmarried, and minority fathers more visible by reviewing the emerging literature base on this population and addressing important conceptual, methodological, and policy issues. Recent evidence is reviewed concerning patterns of fatherhood, factors that support or prohibit fathers' active involvement with their children, and the impact of paternal involvement on children's development. To move the field forward, advances are needed in methodology (increased use of father reports, multiple methods, and longitudinal studies), measurement (greater diversity and depth, multiple reporters), and theoretical and conceptual definitions (family systems perspectives, new and inclusive definitions of fatherhood). In particular, a multidisciplinary and contextualized perspective is an imperative aid to significantly increase understanding of the lives and impact of low-income, unmarried, and minority fathers.
作者旨在通过回顾关于这一群体的新兴文献，并探讨重要的概念、方法和政策问题，来提高低收入、未婚和少数族裔父亲的能见度。本文回顾了近期有关父亲身份模式、支持或阻碍父亲积极参与子女生活的因素，以及父亲参与对子女发展影响的证据。为推动该领域的发展，在方法（增加使用父亲报告、多种方法和纵向研究）、测量（更大的多样性和深度、多个报告者）以及理论和概念定义（家庭系统视角、新的包容性父亲身份定义）方面都需要取得进展。特别是，多学科和情境化的视角对于显著增进对低收入、未婚和少数族裔父亲的生活及影响的理解来说是必不可少的帮助。
