Father-Child Interactional Synchrony as a Function of Maternal and Paternal Depression in Low-Income Brazilian Families

Mendonça, Júlia Scarano de; Bussab, Vera Silvia Raad

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“…The first challenge is based on the fact that much of the pioneering work was carried out in Western cultures or more accurately with Euro-American and middle class fathers. It was assumed that these findings would be universally valid across other cultures and generalizable to non-European American groups in North America and in Europe (see Rabie, Skeen, & Tomlinson, 2020;de Mendonca & Bussab, 2020). In the past several decades, these assumptions have been questioned on several fronts and have forced us to confront the variability in father behaviors across cultures and subcultures but also challenged some of our assumptions about the central features of the father role.…”

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Handbook of Fathers and Child Development

2020

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2020

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“…The hypotheses that we examine in this study are best framed within the context of predictions: (1) based on previous results reporting maternal and paternal differences in their SGs as the child gets older, we predict that mothers and fathers will differ in their SGs at the child's 36th month; (2) considering the great diversity in paternal care behavior reported in the literature, we predict that there will be greater within father differences in SG, than within mother SGs; (3) considering that FAM is a characteristic of Latin cultures and that mothers and fathers suffer the same cultural influences, we predict that maternal and paternal FAM scores will not differ; (4) considering that our sample comes from a low-income population in a highly urbanized city (São Paulo) in a country with a cultural model towards autonomy and relatedness together, we expect that family triadic interactional synchrony will be associated with both an autonomous and a relatedness orientation in maternal and paternal SGs; (5) we expect family triadic interactional synchrony to be positively associated with mothers' and fathers' FAM; (6) based on previous studies showing the interrelatedness of mothers' and fathers' behavior (De Mendonça & Bussab, 2020), we also expect to find a similar pattern in our sample.…”

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Socialization Goals, Familism, and Interactional Synchrony in Low-Income Brazilian Mothers and Fathers

2021

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The present study provided some insights into the family's functioning and on the maternal and paternal differential contribution to the family's social interaction in a low-income population living in São Paulo, Brazil. The main objectives of the study were to compare mothers and fathers on their children's socialization goals (SGs) and familism (FAM) and to examine the associations between maternal and paternal SGs and FAM and triadic interactional synchronies during a family-free play session (motherfather-child). Multidimension assessments of the degree of triadic synchronies were made (interpersonal distance, visual and body orientation, play involvement, and shared affect). Differences in FAM variance scores were found between mothers and fathers, with fathers showing a greater variability in the scores, as expected. Maternal and paternal culture variables were associated with triadic mother-father-child interactional synchrony scores in different ways. Our findings suggest that fathers may have a more traditional cultural orientation in their children's SGs than mothers, and that fathers' SGs impacts the family social interaction more than mothers' SGs. On the contrary, mothers' FAM impacts the family social interaction more than fathers' FAM. In addition, the data indicates a negotiation between the parents, partially mediated by parental SGs and FAM, in the construction of the triadic space configuration, consistent with a family system perspective (Minuchin, 1985). Finally, the authors argue that an in depth understanding of the family functioning within adverse contexts will help tailor public policies centered on the family that could help buffering the negative effects of adversity.

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Father-Child Interactional Synchrony as a Function of Maternal and Paternal Depression in Low-Income Brazilian Families

Cited by 2 publications

References 51 publications

Handbook of Fathers and Child Development

Handbook of Fathers and Child Development

Socialization Goals, Familism, and Interactional Synchrony in Low-Income Brazilian Mothers and Fathers

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