Father-youth closeness and adolescent self-rated health: The mediating role of mental health

O’Gara, Jaimie L.; Zhang, Anao; Padilla, Yolanda C.; Liu, Chun; Wang, Kaipeng

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104386

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“…Rather, she is expected to change her risky behaviours so that she is able to parent the children, or at least continue to play a significant role in their lives. As such, we argue that the CWSWs' differing responses to the mother and father reveal that they see the mother's relationships with her children to have a relational quality -she is considered in relation to her children and her environment -but little consideration is given to the significance of the father's emotional relationship with his children (Lee et al, 2018;O'Gara et al, 2019). While this can be interpreted as the mother being privileged in social work decision-making, we argue that this process of inclusion and exclusion is coupled with CWSWs having higher expectations of women and the ways in which they parent.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Inclusion of fathers and good quality fathering is associated with positive outcomes for children (Scourfield, 2014). Scholars identify, for example, that paternal emotional warmth is positively associated with adolescents' -particularly boys -physical and mental health (O'Gara et al, 2019) and is significant for non-residential fathers' relationships with their children (Lee et al, 2018). However, research identifies that CWSWs continue to work primarily with mothers.…”

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Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

Nygren

Walsh

Ellingsen

et al. 2020

The British Journal of Social Work

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This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we draw on focus group data collected from child welfare social workers in England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden to compare these different contextual changes and how these are reflected in related social work practice decisions. The focus group discussions were based on a vignette, and thematic analysis was applied. Overall, welfare social workers are aware of the need to support gender equality in parenting, there is a heavy focus on mothers in child welfare practice decisions, and fathers are largely absent. Uniquely, we show that this is influenced by both a strong child-centred perspective, and a gendered risk perspective, in which fathers are seen to pose more risk to the children than mothers.

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Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

Nygren

Walsh

Ellingsen

et al. 2020

The British Journal of Social Work

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“…Os problemas psicológicos, comportamentais, de atenção e de baixa autoestima são comuns em famílias na qual os conflitos familiares como: ausência paterna, problemas conjugais, afastamento dos pais, violência, abuso de substâncias, entre outros, estão presentes (17,19) . O bom relacionamento familiar pode fornecer ao adolescente um espaço para desfrutar de conforto, de segurança, de crescimento e de proteção (18) .…”

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Terapia comunitária integrativa com adolescentes escolares: relato de experiência / Integrative community therapy with school adolescents: experience report

Alves¹,

Carvalho²,

Moreira³

et al. 2021

Braz. J. Hea. Rev.

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RESUMOObjetivo: relatar a experiência de implantação da Terapia Comunitária Integrativa em uma escola pública. Descrição da experiência: participaram do estudo adolescentes de 12 a 18 anos, matriculados no ensino fundamental II e ensino médio. Foram conduzidas 31 rodas com 460 participantes. Utilizou-se como fonte de obtenção informação a participação observante e as fichas de apreciação e registro das rodas. Discussão: os principais temas que emergiram foram: estresse (64,5%) e os conflitos familiares (16,1%) e entre as principais estratégias de enfrentamento evidencia-se a busca de redes solidárias (90,3%), o autocuidado e a busca por recursos na cultura (45,2%). Conclusão: a experiência permitiu observar que a Terapia Comunitária Integrativa tem um papel fundamental na atenção à saúde mental do adolescente, sendo importante para o reconhecimento das redes solidárias e de apoio, no fortalecimento da autoestima e no desenvolvimento do olhar introspectivo.

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“…During middle childhood, children who do not think of their parents as a source of support and comfort are likely to develop negative thinking when distressed, including feelings of low self-worth, negative attributional thoughts, and low emotion regulation (Hughes et al, 2021), all of which can contribute to higher social-emotional problems such as depression (Brumariu & Kerns, 2010; Fagan, 2022). Research using FFCW data has shown that father–youth closeness was directly related to adolescents’ self-rated health (O’Gara et al, 2019). These studies indicate the importance of assessing quality of father–child relationship during middle childhood and adolescence.…”

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Explaining the long reach of prenatal behaviors and attitudes in unmarried men at birth on father engagement in early and middle childhood and adolescence.

Fagan¹,

Cabrera²,

Ghosh³

2022

Developmental Psychology

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The current study examined three research questions: (a) Are unmarried at birth fathers' prenatal and birth-related behavioral, attitudinal, and identity adjustments directly related to father engagement in child-related activities during early childhood and father-child closeness in middle childhood and adolescence? (b) Do father engagement in child-related activities during early childhood, coresidence, and coparenting at age 5 mediate the association between unmarried fathers' prenatal and birth-related variables and father-child relationship in middle childhood and adolescence? (c) Do father-child closeness, coresidence, and coparenting in middle childhood mediate the association between fathers' prenatal and birth-related variables and father-child relationship during adolescence? Using a subsample of Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing data (N = 2,647), we found support for our hypotheses that fathers' prenatal and birth-related variables significantly predicted father-child engagement during early childhood and father-child closeness during middle childhood and adolescence, although not all prenatal and birthrelated variables are related to outcomes during each stage of childhood development. Father involvement and coparenting cooperation significantly mediated the associations among fathers' prenatal and birthrelated variables and father-child closeness at ages 9 and 15. Our findings indicate that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should take advantage of the prenatal period and direct resources to facilitate and strengthen prospective unmarried fathers' early relationships with their partners and children. Public Significance StatementThis study found that fathers who are unmarried at the time of their child's birth are more engaged and have closer relationships with their children when they provide tangible support to the mother during the pregnancy, are present at the birth, establish paternity establishment, and to a lesser extent have positive attitudes about the pregnancy and developing a commitment to fatherhood. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers should take advantage of this period and direct some of their resources to facilitate and strengthen prospective fathers' early relationships with their partners and children.

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Father-youth closeness and adolescent self-rated health: The mediating role of mental health

Cited by 21 publications

References 47 publications

Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

Terapia comunitária integrativa com adolescentes escolares: relato de experiência / Integrative community therapy with school adolescents: experience report

Explaining the long reach of prenatal behaviors and attitudes in unmarried men at birth on father engagement in early and middle childhood and adolescence.

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