Fatherhood Among Young Inner-City Men(Resubmission)

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是进一步了解市中心的父亲的参与和父母的做法对他们的孩子的发展的影响，并确定父亲的参与和父母的做法的关键决定因素。尽管经常暗示在妥协的发展和儿童的心理健康问题，父亲在城市儿童的发展中的作用是研究不足，知之甚少。这项研究将涉及收集两波数据的后代和非后代儿童的父亲的样本271内城的年轻成年男性参加了芝加哥青年发展研究（CYDS）。当这些年轻人11-13岁的时候，CYDS就开始了。对这些年轻人及其家人进行了六波反复采访。最后两波包括与他们的亲密伴侣的访谈以及关于他们的孩子和养育的初步信息。通过建立在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，它与养育子女的做法，儿童功能的关系，以及发展的前体和当前的个人和情境特征相关的更大的参与和更有效的养育。从在市中心长大的拉丁裔和非洲裔美国男性的纵向数据集建立的这个机会可以提供重要的方向，可以建立在其他现有的风险代际传递和相关的父亲对儿童发展的影响的研究基础上（例如，Capaldi和Patterson的俄勒冈州青年研究和Thornberry的罗切斯特青年研究）以及其他关于父亲参与的不太广泛的研究。

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.