Department of Pedagogy, University of Groningen.
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Curacao Dr. Moises Da Costa Gomez.
J Fam Psychol. 2024 Mar;38(2):270-281. doi: 10.1037/fam0001159. Epub 2023 Oct 23.
Growing up with a nonresident biological father has been portrayed as problematic for different aspects of father-child relationships, but it is unclear whether experiencing nonresidential fatherhood is less problematic in countries where this family structure is more common and thus probably less stigmatized. Cross-country research into nonresidential fatherhood is scarce, especially including Caribbean countries where many children grow up without their biological father in the home. This study examined associations between nonresidential fatherhood and father-child relationship quality and fathers' parenting behaviors among Curaçaoan and Dutch adolescents and young adults. Curaçaoan ( = 450) and Dutch ( = 585) participants completed a digital questionnaire in class, using the same procedures on Curaçao and in the Netherlands. We estimated structural equation models of perceived avoidant and anxious father-child attachment and paternal emotional warmth, rejection, and monitoring for both groups separately because of measurement variance across countries. Nonresidential fatherhood was unrelated to perceptions of most aspects of father-child relationships among both Curaçaoan and Dutch participants. This study adds an important cross-country perspective to the current literature on nonresidential fatherhood and tentatively suggests that correlates of nonresidential fatherhood for father-child relationships might be less evident than previous studies suggest. Instead, young people's socioeconomic status (SES) and the frequency of contact between fathers and children seem to be more important for father-child attachment and paternal rearing behaviors. Further research across demographic characteristics and child outcomes is required to understand whether, when, and how nonresidence of the biological father might affect child well-being and development in different countries. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
与非居住生父一起成长被描述为对父-子关系的不同方面存在问题，但尚不清楚在这种家庭结构更为常见且因此可能较少受到污名化的国家，经历非居住父亲身份是否问题较少。跨国研究中非居住父亲身份的研究很少，尤其是包括许多孩子在没有亲生父亲的家庭中长大的加勒比国家。本研究调查了库拉索和荷兰青少年和年轻人中非居住父亲身份与父-子关系质量和父亲养育行为之间的关联。库拉索（n=450）和荷兰（n=585）参与者在课堂上使用相同的程序完成了数字问卷，分别在库拉索和荷兰进行了估计。由于国家间存在测量差异，我们为两组分别建立了感知回避和焦虑的父-子依恋以及父爱的情感温暖、拒绝和监控的结构方程模型。非居住父亲身份与库拉索和荷兰参与者对大多数父-子关系方面的看法无关。本研究为非居住父亲身份的现有文献增加了一个重要的跨国视角，并初步表明，非居住父亲身份与父-子关系的相关性可能不如先前研究表明的那样明显。相反，年轻人的社会经济地位（SES）和父母与子女之间的接触频率似乎对父-子依恋和父养行为更为重要。需要进行跨越人口特征和儿童结果的进一步研究，以了解非亲生父亲的不居住是否以及如何在不同国家影响儿童的幸福和发展。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
