Van Holland De Graaf Jacobien, Hoogenboom Marcel, De Roos Simone, Bucx Freek
Zeist Municipality, Zeist, The Netherlands.
2Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Child Fam Stud. 2018;27(7):2315-2327. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1059-7. Epub 2018 Mar 22.
In the present study, we investigated whether fathers' and mothers' parenting behavior is differentially related to parental factors (such as age and employment), child factors (age and gender) as well as social support. Parents reported on their use of a broad range of parenting behaviors, including affection, responsivity, explaining, autonomy, support, rewarding, and punishing. We used survey data from the Netherlands for 1197 mothers and 903 fathers of children aged 2 to 17. Seemingly unrelated regression analyses were conducted to combine the regression results on the separate subsamples (fathers and mothers) and to test for differences in the coefficients between those subsamples. Our expectation that the parenting behavior of fathers is more dependent on parents' characteristics, children's characteristics, and social support than that of mothers was only partly confirmed by the results of our analysis. In general, our results suggest that fathers' parenting behaviors seem to be associated with parental and child characteristics and contextual factors in ways that are similar to how these factors are associated with mothers' parenting behaviors. Results are discussed in relation to the roles and expectations associated with motherhood and fatherhood.
在本研究中，我们调查了父亲和母亲的养育行为与父母因素（如年龄和就业情况）、儿童因素（年龄和性别）以及社会支持之间的关系是否存在差异。父母报告了他们对一系列广泛养育行为的使用情况，包括关爱、反应性、解释、自主性、支持、奖励和惩罚。我们使用了来自荷兰的调查数据，涉及1197名2至17岁儿童的母亲和903名父亲。我们进行了看似不相关的回归分析，以合并对不同子样本（父亲和母亲）的回归结果，并检验这些子样本之间系数的差异。我们的预期是，父亲的养育行为比母亲的养育行为更依赖于父母特征、儿童特征和社会支持，但我们的分析结果仅部分证实了这一点。总体而言，我们的结果表明，父亲的养育行为与父母和儿童特征以及背景因素之间的关联方式，似乎与这些因素与母亲养育行为的关联方式相似。我们结合与母亲身份和父亲身份相关的角色及期望对结果进行了讨论。
