McMunn Anne, Martin Peter, Kelly Yvonne, Sacker Amanda
University College London, London, UK.
Anna Freud Centre, London, UK.
J Fam Issues. 2017 Jun;38(8):1109-1131. doi: 10.1177/0192513X15622415. Epub 2015 Dec 14.
This study investigated longitudinal relationships between fathers' involvement, as measured by reading, and child socioemotional behavior between infancy and age 7 in 9,238 intact two-parent families from the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study, a national cohort of British children born between 2000 and 2002. Once a variety of covariates and the potential bidirectional nature of relationships were taken into account, a path model showed that fathers' involvement with their children in infancy significantly predicted better socioemotional behavior at age 3, although the relationship was not strong. Fathers' reading with their children between ages 3 and 7 was not significantly associated with child socioemotional behavior, but mothers' reading with their children at age 3 was significantly associated with improved child socioemotional behavior at ages 3 and 5. Results also suggested that parenting in the 21st-century British context remains fairly gendered. Both mothers and fathers were more likely to engage in physical activities with their sons and artistic activities with their daughters. Fathers' reading was socially patterned in predicted directions.
本研究通过对来自英国千禧世代研究（一项针对2000年至2002年间出生的英国儿童的全国性队列研究）的9238个双亲完整家庭进行调查，探讨了父亲参与度（以阅读来衡量）与孩子从婴儿期到7岁的社会情感行为之间的纵向关系。在考虑了各种协变量以及关系的潜在双向性之后，一个路径模型表明，父亲在婴儿期与孩子的互动显著预测了孩子在3岁时更好的社会情感行为，尽管这种关系并不强烈。父亲在孩子3至7岁时与他们一起阅读与孩子的社会情感行为没有显著关联，但母亲在孩子3岁时与他们一起阅读与孩子在3岁和5岁时社会情感行为的改善显著相关。结果还表明，在21世纪的英国背景下，育儿仍然存在相当程度的性别差异。母亲和父亲都更有可能与儿子一起进行体育活动，与女儿一起进行艺术活动。父亲的阅读在社会模式上呈现出预期的方向。
