Father Care: Levels, Sources, and Consequences

父亲关怀：水平、来源和后果

• 批准号: 7659582
• 负责人: Margaret Tresch Owen
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7659582
• 关键词: Address; Age; Age-Months; Attitude; Belief; Birth; Birth Order; Caring; Characteristics; Child; Child Care; Child Development; Childhood; Cognitive; Data; Data Set; Development; Documentation; Education; Employment; Family; Family Sizes; Father-Child Relations; Fathers; Female; Frequencies; Gender; Hour; Income; Investigation; Literature; Logistics; Marital Status; Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nursery Schools; Occupations; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Poverty; Prevalence; Provider; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Social Development; Source; Surveys; Temperament; Time; Variant; Work; Youth; demographics; experience; infancy; routine care; satisfaction; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The central purpose of this secondary analysis of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD) public data sets is to investigate the effects of fathers serving as a routine childcare provider for their young children ("father care"). Although a substantial body of literature has shown benefits of greater father involvement for parenting satisfaction and children's cognitive and social development, it is not clear whether these benefits hold true for young children's experiences with father care as a routine arrangement. Substantial numbers of fathers provide routine childcare arrangement for 13-14% of the children from 6 to 36 months of age, and we have found that more than 65% of its 1364 children (70% of children from two-parent families) received father care as a primary or a supplemental child care arrangement for some amount of time between 1 and 54 months of age. Despite its prevalence, the effects of father care have not been systematically studied. In studies of the effects of different types of childcare, father care is typically lumped with other forms of relative care, and thus not differentiated (e.g. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network [ECCRN], 2004). The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N=1364, 48% female) provides a unique opportunity for studying differences in children's development associated with variations and their experience of father care as a child care arrangement. Because child care was defined as nonmaternal care in the NICHD SECCYD, and the types and hours of child care experience were collected longitudinally for both primary and supplement arrangements, there is extensive documentation of variations in children's experiences with father care as a type of child care arrangement. In order to address the key question of how and when father care makes a difference for children, the proposed project will address these specific aims: (1) To provide descriptive information about variations in children's father care experiences throughout their preschool years, (2) to investigate multiple predictors of variations in father care from birth through the preschool years, including family demographics, employment conditions, personal characteristics of fathers and mothers, and child characteristics, and (3) To examine the consequences of father care for father-child relationships, mother-child relationships, and children's social and cognitive development into middle childhood.

描述（由申请人提供）：对国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所的早期儿童保育和青少年发展研究 (NICHD SECCYD) 公共数据集进行二次分析的中心目的是调查父亲作为幼儿日常保育提供者（“父亲保育”）的影响。尽管大量文献表明父亲更多地参与对育儿满意度以及儿童的认知和社会发展有好处，但尚不清楚这些好处是否适用于幼儿将父亲照顾作为日常安排的经历。大量父亲为 13-14% 6 至 36 个月大的儿童提供常规儿童保育安排，我们发现，在 1364 名儿童中，超过 65%（来自双亲家庭的儿童的 70%）在 1 至 54 个月大的一段时间内接受父亲照顾作为主要或补充儿童保育安排。尽管父亲关怀很普遍，但其影响尚未得到系统研究。在不同类型儿童保育效果的研究中，父亲保育通常与其他形式的亲属照顾混为一谈，因此没有区别（例如 NICHD 早期儿童保育研究网络 [ECCRN]，2004 年）。 NICHD 的早期儿童保育和青少年发展研究（N=1364，48% 为女性）提供了一个独特的机会来研究与差异相关的儿童发展差异以及他们将父亲照顾作为儿童保育安排的经验。由于儿童保育在 NICHD SECCYD 中被定义为非孕产妇保育，并且儿童保育体验的类型和时间是针对主要和补充安排纵向收集的，因此有大量文件记录了儿童在父亲保育作为儿童保育安排的一种类型方面的体验差异。为了解决父亲照顾如何以及何时对儿童产生影响的关键问题，拟议项目将解决以下具体目标：（1）提供有关儿童在整个学龄前阶段父亲照顾经历变化的描述性信息，（2）调查从出生到学龄前阶段父亲照顾变化的多种预测因素，包括家庭人口统计、就业条件、父亲和母亲的个人特征以及儿童特征，以及（3）检查父亲照顾的后果 照顾父子关系、母子关系以及儿童到童年中期的社交和认知发展。