Fatherhood Among Young Inner-City Men

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究的目的是进一步了解市中心父亲的参与和养育方式对孩子发展的影响，并确定父亲参与和养育方式的关键决定因素。尽管父亲在儿童发育和儿童心理健康问题中的作用经常受到影响，但人们对父亲在市中心儿童发展中的作用研究不足，知之甚少。这项研究将收集两波关于子女和非子女的数据，这些子女的父亲是271名参与芝加哥青年发展研究(CYDS)的内城年轻成年男性。在这些年轻人11-13岁的时候，青年会开始了。对这些年轻人及其家人进行了六波反复采访。最后两波包括对他们亲密伴侣的采访，以及关于他们的孩子和育儿方式的初步信息。通过现有的样本和这些数据，我们打算研究父亲参与的多个重要方面，它与育儿实践和孩子功能的关系，以及与更多的参与和更有效的养育有关的发展前兆和当前的个人和情境特征。从这个在市中心长大的拉丁裔和非裔美国男性的纵向数据集建立起来的机会，可以提供重要的方向，可以建立在其他现有的关于风险代际传播和相关的父亲对儿童发展影响的研究(例如，Capaldi和Patterson的俄勒冈州青年研究和Thornberry的Rochester青年研究)以及其他关于父亲参与的较不广泛的研究的基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this study is to further understanding of the impact of inner-city father's involvement and parenting practices on their children's development and to identify key determinants of paternal involvement and parenting practices. Despite frequent implication in compromised development and children's mental health problems, the role of the father in the development of inner-city children is understudied and poorly understood. This study will involve collection of two waves of data about the offspring and non-offspring children being fathered by a sample of 271 inner-city young adult males who took part in the Chicago Youth Development Study (CYDS). The CYDS began when these young men were 11-13. Six waves of repeated interviews have been conducted with these young men and their families. The last two waves included interviews with their intimate partners and preliminary information about their children and parenting. By building on this existing sample and these data we intend to study multiple important aspects of father involvement, its relation with parenting practices to child functioning, and the developmental precursors and current personal and situational characteristics related to greater involvement and more effective parenting. This opportunity to build from this longitudinal data set of Latino and African-American males who grew up in the inner-city can provide important direction that can build on other existing studies of the inter-generational transmission of risk and related paternal influence on child development (e.g., Capaldi and Patterson's Oregon Youth Study and Thornberry's Rochester Youth Study) and other less extensive studies of father involvement.