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

该项目研究父母，特别是父亲，如何影响儿童在童年中期的情感和社会功能。一个多方法的方法将被启动，使用自我报告，其他报告，并观察父母和孩子的行为措施。本研究的长期目标是：（a）检验父亲的参与程度与其与儿童的情感社会化行为之间的关系;（B）检验父亲和母亲在各种社会情境中的相对贡献;（c）评估父亲对儿童情感和社会发展的影响过程;（d）检验父亲对儿童情感社会化行为的影响程度。（d）评估父母的情绪社会化行为对儿童的情绪及社会能力的影响;（e）研究父母的性格特征，例如孤独及抑郁，与儿童的社会化行为及其后的社会功能的潜在关系;以及（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级之间的关系。该项目提供了一种可能性，使公共政策了解父亲参与儿童社会和情感发展的重要性。

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.