Transactional Family Processes Supporting Father Involvement and Child Socio-emotional Wellbeing

摘要： 越来越多的孩子是父母在经济衰退时未婚所生 孩子的出生。这种家庭中的孩子，通常被称为“脆弱家庭”，更有可能 在童年期间经历父亲参与或缺席(LFIA)较少，这反过来 与一系列有害的发育后果有关。尽管有大量的 关于家庭过程的学术研究，关于LFIA的预测因素和关于 与LFIA相关的家族流程。使用5102名不同种族的低收入者的数据 来自建设强健家庭(BSF)研究的夫妇，这里提出的研究旨在填补这一点 差距，首先，测试夫妻关系和共同育儿关系的交易模型 质量，以及父亲的参与来考察夫妇和父母之间的关系 动力学与LFIA(目标1)相关联。其次，我们将考察夫妻关系如何，共同-- 育儿方式和包括LFIA在内的育儿行为与儿童的社会情绪有关 成果(目标2)。最后，我们将根据(A)RACE- (B)居住和非居住的父亲家庭(目标3)。建议数 研究将提供对家庭过程的理解的进展，这些过程与 为脆弱家庭中的儿童提供LFIA和社会情感结果，并为 采取干预措施，增加父亲的参与，促进儿童的社会情感健康。 拟议的研究将包括哈佛大学研究生院的博士生和硕士研究生 丹佛大学社会工作，从而完成R15领域的优先事项，为学生提供 没有大量NIH资金的组织，面临严谨的研究和机会 参与研究过程的各个方面。该项目还将加强 通过促进严格的联邦资助，为申请机构创造科学环境 教职员工之间的研究。

Abstract: An increasing proportion of children are born to parents who are unmarried at the time of the child’s birth. Children in such families, often termed “fragile families”, are more likely to experience low father involvement or absence (LFIA) during childhood, which is in turn associated with a range of deleterious developmental outcomes. Despite the substantial scholarship on family processes, important questions remain about predictors of LFIA and about the family processes associated with LFIA. Using data on 5,102 racially diverse, low-income couples from the Building Strong Families (BSF) study, the studies proposed here aim to fill this gap by, first, testing a transactional model of couple relationship and co-parenting relationship quality, along with father involvement to examine how couple and parenting relationship dynamics are linked to LFIA (Aim 1). Secondly, we will examine how couple relationship, co- parenting, and parenting behaviors including LFIA are linked to children’s socio-emotional outcomes (Aim 2). Finally, we will examine variability in these processes based on (a) race- ethnicity, and (b) residential and non-residential father households (Aim 3). The proposed studies will provide advances in the understanding of family processes that are associated with LFIA and socio-emotional outcomes for children in fragile families, and provide targets for intervention to increase father involvement and promote children’s socio-emotional wellbeing. The proposed studies will include doctoral and masters level students at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, thus fulfilling the AREA R15 priority to provide students at an organization without substantial NIH funding with exposure to rigorous research and opportunity to participate in all aspects of the research process. This project will also strengthen the scientific environment at the applicant institution by promoting rigorous federally funded research among faculty.