Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, 1787 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2011 Jan;47(1):106-18. doi: 10.1037/a0020802.
A sample (N = 112) composed primarily of European American and middle-class two-parent families with a resident father and a 4-year-old child (48% girls) participated in a longitudinal study of associations between coparenting and father involvement. At the initial assessment and 1 year later, fathers reported on their involvement in play and caregiving activities with the focal child, and coparenting behavior was observed during triadic family interactions. Structural equation modeling was used to test cross-lagged associations between coparenting behavior and father involvement. Overall, paths from father involvement to coparenting behavior were significant, but paths from coparenting behavior to father involvement were not. Specifically, greater father involvement in play was associated with an increase in supportive and a decrease in undermining coparenting behavior over time. In contrast, greater father involvement in caregiving was associated with a decrease in supportive and an increase in undermining coparenting behavior. Multigroup analysis further showed that these cross-lagged relations did not differ for dual-earner families and single-earner (father) families, but these relations appeared to differ for families with focal daughters and families with focal sons. These findings highlight the potential for fathering to affect coparenting and the importance of the role of contextual factors in coparenting-fathering relations.
一个样本（N=112）主要由欧洲裔美国人和中产阶级的双亲家庭组成，这些家庭中有一位居住的父亲和一个 4 岁的孩子（48%是女孩），参与了一项关于亲职合作与父亲参与度之间关联的纵向研究。在初始评估和 1 年后，父亲们报告了他们与焦点孩子一起参与游戏和照顾活动的情况，并且在三方家庭互动中观察了亲职合作行为。结构方程模型被用于测试亲职合作行为和父亲参与度之间的交叉滞后关联。总体而言，从父亲参与度到亲职合作行为的路径是显著的，但从亲职合作行为到父亲参与度的路径并不显著。具体而言，父亲在游戏中更多的参与与亲职合作行为中支持性的增加和破坏性行为的减少有关，而随着时间的推移，父亲在照顾方面更多的参与与亲职合作行为中支持性的减少和破坏性行为的增加有关。多群组分析进一步表明，这些交叉滞后关系在双职工家庭和单亲（父亲）家庭中没有差异，但这些关系在有焦点女儿的家庭和有焦点儿子的家庭中似乎有所不同。这些发现强调了父亲养育对亲职合作的潜在影响，以及在亲职合作-父亲关系中，背景因素的作用的重要性。
