Longitudinal examination of fathers' influences on children's social and emotional development

本项目研究父母，特别是父亲，在儿童中期影响儿童情感和社会功能的方式。将采用多种方法，包括自我报告、他人报告和对父母和儿童行为的观察性测量。本研究的长期目标是：(a)检验父亲的参与与他们对儿童的情感社会化行为的关系程度；(b)研究父亲和母亲在各种社会环境中的相对贡献；(c)评估父亲对儿童情感和社会发展的影响过程；(d)评估父母情绪社会化行为对儿童情绪和社会能力的影响；(e)研究孤独和抑郁等父母特征与社会化行为和儿童随后的社会功能的潜在关系；(f)确定同伴对儿童情绪功能的感知与他们对社会能力的评价之间的关系。该项目为公共政策提供了关于父亲参与儿童社会和情感发展重要性的信息。

This project examines the ways in which parents, particularly fathers, influence the emotional and social functioning of children in the middle-childhood period. A multiple method approach will be initiated, using self-report, other-report, and observational measures of parent and child behavior. The long-term goals of this research are to (a) examine the extent to which fathers' involvement is related to their emotion socialization behaviors with children; (b) examine the relative contributions of fathers and mothers in a variety of social contexts; (c) assess the processes of fathers' influence on children's emotional and social development; (d) evaluate the impact of parents' emotion socialization behaviors on children's emotional and social competence; (e) study the potential relation of parental characteristics such as loneliness and depression to socialization behaviors and children's subsequent social functioning; and (f) determine the relation between peers' perception of children's emotional functioning and their ratings of social competence. The project offers the potential to inform public policy regarding the importance of fathers' involvement for children's social and emotional development.