Flouri Fathering and Child Outcomes

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-86169-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, E-Book

Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathersplay a crucial role in child development and subsequent adultstatus and behaviour. This book presents the state-of-the-art onfathering and its determinants. Based on original research into theeffects that different styles of fathering can have on children, itexplores the long and short terms outcomes of involved fathering ondifferent domains of children?s lives, including academicachievement, mental health, socio-economic status, adolescentrelationships and delinquency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flouri, Eirini

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
FOREWORD BY ANN BUCHANAN.
Chapter 1 Fathering: A Changing Perspective.
Chapter 2 Factors Associated with Fathers'Involvement in Two-Parent Families.
Chapter 3 Fathers' Involvement and Children'sMental Health Outcomes.
Chapter 4 Fathers' Involvement and Children'sEducational Outcomes.
Chapter 5 Fathers' Involvement and AdolescentAggressive Behaviour.
Chapter 6 Fathers' Involvement and Children'sQuality of Relationships.
Chapter 7 Fathers' Involvement and Children'sSocio-Economic Outcomes.
Chapter 8 Non-Resident Fathers' Parenting:Determinants and Children's Psychological Outcomes.
Chapter 9 Conclusions.
REFERENCES.
INDEX.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Eirini Flouri is Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children, University of Oxford, and Lecturer in Statistics, St. Hilda's College. Her main research area has been, broadly speaking, life-course development, and more specifically parenting (looking at fathering, in particular, since 2000) and child development in the long term. She has published in the area of economic psychology and especially economic socialisation and consumer values, children's resilience and recovery from emotional and behavioral problems, and children's outcomes associated with father involvement.