Sex Roles
Volume 60, Issue 7-8 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 496-509

Father involvement in immigrant and ethnically diverse families from the prenatal period to the second year: Prediction and mediating mechanisms (Article)

Tamis-Lemonda C.S. , Kahana-Kalman R. , Yoshikawa H.
  • a Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 239 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003, United States
  • b New York Institute of Technology, Northern Boulevard, Old Westbury, NY 11568, United States
  • c Harvard Graduate School of Education, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Abstract

This longitudinal study focused on fathers' involvement from the prenatal period through infants' first year in Dominican immigrants (n∈=∈73), Mexican immigrants (n∈=∈65) and African Americans (n∈=∈66) residing in New York City. Fathers' prenatal involvement, the quality of the mother-father relationship, fathers' postnatal involvement with their 1- and 6 month olds and fathers' involvement with their 14 month-olds (i.e., time spent with infant; eating meals with infant; activities with infant) were examined. Father involvement was uniformly high and stable. Fathers' prenatal involvement predicted involvement at 14 months, and the quality of the mother-father relationship mediated these associations. Father ethnicity and residency moderated associations between the father-mother relationship, father postnatal involvement and father involvement with 14 month olds. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Author Keywords

Mother-father relationship immigrant families Father involvement infancy

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-63749118887&doi=10.1007%2fs11199-009-9593-9&partnerID=40&md5=8a4da9a6066e41a7cb8d059f222528ce
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9593-9
ISSN: 03600025
Cited by: 41
Original Language: English