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

这个项目考察了父母，特别是父亲，如何影响儿童在童年中期的情绪和社会功能。将启动一种多方法方法，使用父母和孩子行为的自我报告、他人报告和观察性测量。本研究的长期目标是：(A)考察父亲对子女的情绪社会化行为的参与程度；(B)考察父亲和母亲在不同社会背景下的相对贡献；(C)评估父亲对子女情绪和社会发展的影响过程；(D)评价父母的情绪社会化行为对子女情绪和社交能力的影响；(E)研究父母的孤独和抑郁等特征与子女社会化行为和随后的社会功能的潜在关系；以及(F)确定同龄人对儿童情绪功能的感知与他们的社会能力评级之间的关系。该项目有可能向公共政策宣传父亲参与对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.