Father Involvement, Paternal Sensitivity and Father -Child Attachment in the First Three Years
Brown, Geoffrey Lloyd
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Description
Title
Father Involvement, Paternal Sensitivity and Father -Child Attachment in the First Three Years
Author(s)
Brown, Geoffrey Lloyd
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Mangelsdorf, Sarah C.
Department of Study
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
This study examined the associations among father involvement, fathers' parenting sensitivity, and father-child attachment security when children were 13 months and 3 years of age. Although there were few associations among these variables at 13 months of age, composite father involvement and fathers' sensitivity at age 3 independently and interactively predicted concurrent father-child attachment security. There was also evidence for moderate stability in father involvement, but not in fathers' sensitivity across the two timepoints. Furthermore, there was significant stability in father-child attachment security from 13 months (as assessed by the Strange Situation Procedure; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) to 3 years (as assessed by the observers' Attachment Q-Set; Waters, 1987). Secure attachment at 13 months also predicted greater levels of parenting sensitivity at 3 years. Parenting sensitivity at age 3 partially mediated the association between 13 month and 3 year attachment security. Results suggest that the father-child attachment relationship may develop as a function of both the quantity and quality of fathers' parenting behavior. Moreover, father-child attachment in the first year remains relatively stable across early childhood and may help to promote subsequent fathers' parenting sensitivity.
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