BackgroundThe fact of becoming a father is related to the necessity of taking up a number of new commitments. The changes following from taking up a new social role generate much stress and can bring some identity transformations (Freudenreich, Liberska, & Miluska, 2011) and a crisis in evaluation (Trempała, 2010).Participants and procedureIn order to characterise the structure of identity of young fathers and to determine whether they suffer from a crisis in evaluation, a study was performed on 90 men who became fathers of their first child in the period up to about half a year earlier. Techniques used in the study were: <i>Dimensions of Identity Development Scale</i> (DIDS), <i>Questionnaire for Investigation of Crisis in Evaluation</i>, and a questionnaire prepared by the author.ResultsThe structure of identity of young fathers has no relation to the age of the child, at least in the first six months of the child’s life, but it is related to the crisis in evaluation.ConclusionsAccording to the results, the crisis in evaluation in young fathers is of intermediate intensity and is related to the age of the child. The study suggests a relationship between normative events related to the world of the child and a psychological crisis, involving identity and structures of values.
backgroundThe birth of the first child begins a new stage in family life, and the woman and the man must adopt new roles in society. However, adapting to the new conditions of life and the requirements of the new role can be difficult. participants and procedureThe main tools used in the study were the SUPIN scale, the STAI inventory and a questionnaire constructed by the authors. The participants were 90 men who became first time fathers in the period of 6 months prior to the study. resultsThe results indicate that the first time fathers show a medium level of state anxiety related to the current situation and a low level of trait anxiety understood as an enduring disposition. The level of anxiety is related to the age of the child, but only in the men who fathered a son: the older the son was, the greater was the intensity of state anxiety in the father. conclusionsThe deep conviction that the father should be a role model for the son can be a source of anxiety about the ability to manage and the ability to meet the related responsibility. According to the tradition of our culture, the father has to prepare the son to be a man, to assume a man's roles in society and teach him how to live. The lower intensity of positive emotions related to the birth of a daughter can be explained from the point of view of the true man stereotype -a daughter does not fulfil it.
The experiences of women regarding conception, the birth of the first child, and care of an infant in the perinatal period have long attracted the attention of researchers, but the knowledge about the experiences of men entering the role of fathers for the first time is still insufficient. The aim of the research was to identify the level of satisfaction with life, emotions and identity formation of first-time parents depending on the gender and age of the child. Seventy-five pairs of Polish first-time parents participated in the study. The research used the SUPIN scale (Polish adaptation of Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the Dimension of Identity Development Scale (DIDS), and a questionnaire prepared by the authors. On the basis of the conducted research, it can be concluded that there is a similarity of satisfaction with life, experienced emotions, and identity processes of first-time mothers and fathers, as well as the importance of the child’s age for the specificity of developmental changes in women and men. Understanding development changes which include identity, emotional functioning, and life satisfaction of first-time parents can provide bases for creating supporting programs in the case that problems in undertaking the role of a parent emerge.
We współczesnym świecie, jak nigdy przedtem, ścierają się ze sobą różne kultury, poglądy, dążenia. Na naszych oczach dokonuje się nie tylko postęp cywilizacyjny i technologiczny, ale zmienia się również podejście do moralności – wartości, które do tej pory były cenione, stają się powoli nieatrakcyjne; zasady, gwarantujące ład społeczny, ustępują miejsca niewłaściwie pojętej tolerancji czy wolności; obserwujemy relatywizację i liberalizację zachowań i stylów życia. Na nowo aktualne staje się zagadnienie wychowania do wartości – co zrobić i jakie wartości należy przekazać wychowankom, by zagwarantować sobie i im, że będą potrafili podejmować trafne decyzje i odnajdą sens swojego życia. Artykuł prezentuje najważniejsze zagadnienia, podejmowane w kontekście problematyki kształcenia aksjologicznego. Przedstawia zarówno definicje i koncepcje wartości, jak i refleksje na temat tego, do jakich wartości powinno się wychowywać następne pokolenia. W opracowaniu znalazł się także opis sposobów i metod, wykorzystywanych podczas wychowywania do wartości.
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