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城市父亲的参与和养育方式对孩子发展的影响，并确定父亲的参与和养育方式的关键决定因素。尽管父亲在发育迟缓和儿童心理健康问题中经常涉及，但父亲在城市儿童发展中的作用尚未得到充分研究和了解。本研究将收集两波数据，这些数据来自参加芝加哥青年发展研究（CYDS）的271名市中心年轻成年男性的后代和非后代的父亲。青年会在这些年轻人11-13岁时就开始了。对这些年轻人和他们的家人进行了六次反复的采访。最后两波调查包括与亲密伴侣的访谈，以及关于子女和育儿的初步信息。在现有样本和数据的基础上，我们打算研究父亲参与的多个重要方面，它与育儿实践对儿童功能的关系，以及与更大的参与和更有效的育儿相关的发展前驱和当前个人和情境特征。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中建立的机会可以为其他现有的关于风险的代际传递和父亲对儿童发展的相关影响的研究（例如，卡帕尔迪和帕特森的俄勒冈青年研究和索恩伯里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提供重要的方向。

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.