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Father involvement, family poverty and adversity, and young children’s behaviour in intact two-parent families

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Using data from the first two sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) we explored the association between father involvement and young children’s emotional and behavioural adjustment among continuously two-parent families (N = 9,498). We also investigated the role of father involvement in moderating the association between contextual risk (family-level adverse life events and family-level socio-economic disadvantage) and young children’s adjustment. We found that early father involvement was negatively associated with later emotional symptoms, but no other problem behaviour, and dampened the effect of socio-economic disadvantage, but not adverse life events, on emotional symptoms. Our findings highlighted the importance of considering specificity at both child outcome and contextual risk levels when modelling father involvement effects.

Source: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

DOI: 10.14301/llcs.v3i2.170

Authors: Eirini Flouri, Lars-Erik Malmberg

Institutions: University College London, University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council