Sharing housework can be healthy: cultural and psychological factors influencing men’s involvement in household maintenance

Kosakowska‐Berezecka, Natasza; Korzeniewska, Lubomiła; Kaczorowska, Marta

doi:10.5114/hpr.2016.62232

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“…First, it is possible that overfat fathers may, in general, have lower control over their eating habits and, therefore, little control over their children’s food intake. Secondly, fathers may be less engaged in choosing and preparing meals for the family which, in Poland, is a task traditionally assigned to women [ 50 ]. Having control over a child’s eating is a feeding style positively associated with such nutritive eating patterns as frequent consumption of fruits, vegetables and breakfast as well as avoidance of high-energy-density food [ 47 ].…”

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Gender and Body-Fat Status as Predictors of Parental Feeding Styles and Children’s Nutritional Knowledge, Eating Habits and Behaviours

Lipowska

Lipowski

Jurek

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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The home food environment is critically important for the development of children’s health-related practices. By managing dietary restrictions, providing nutritional knowledge and demonstrating eating behaviours, parents contribute to children’s food preferences and eating patterns. The present study examined nutritional knowledge, eating habits and appetite traits among 387 Polish five-year-old healthy and overfat boys and girls in the context of parental feeding styles and body-fat status. We observed that girls presented healthier eating habits than boys; however, overfat boys had better nutritional knowledge. Children’s body-fat percentage (%BF) was found to be linked with eating behaviours such as low satiety responsiveness and increased food responsiveness in girls as well as low emotional undereating and increased emotional overeating in boys. Our results revealed that overfat mothers, who were more prone to use the encouragement feeding style, rarely had daughters with increased %BF. Parents of overfat girls, however, were less likely to apply encouragement and instrumental feeding styles. Contrary to popular belief and previous studies, overfat women do not necessarily transmit unhealthy eating patterns to their children. Parents’ greater emphasis on managing the weight and eating habits of daughters (rather than sons) probably results from their awareness of standards of female physical attractiveness.

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Gender and Body-Fat Status as Predictors of Parental Feeding Styles and Children’s Nutritional Knowledge, Eating Habits and Behaviours

Lipowska

Lipowski

Jurek

et al. 2018

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“…Buying dolls, baby carriages, or dishes for boys is considered by caregivers to be unmanly and posing a risk to the child's gender identity. Paradoxically, fathers engage in housework increasingly often (Kosakowska-Berezecka, Korzeniewska, & Kaczorowska, 2016), and a boy who cooks dinner or feeds a doll may want to "play dad", rather than to pretend to be a girl.…”

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"Daughter and son: a completely different story”? Gender as a moderator of the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes

Lipowska¹,

Lipowski²,

Pawlicka³

2016

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report · volume 4(3), 6 original article background During childhood, parents are the first and most important individuals who form the base of the content of gender stereotypes in children. A parent's expectations about the extent a child's behaviour should be line with gender stereotypes also depends on the intensity of a parent's sexism. A parent's sexism may be exhibited in parental attitudes. Hence, in our study we analysed the relationship between parental ambivalent sexism and parental attitudes within dyads of mothers and fathers with a special focus on the role of the gender of both parents and children. participants and procedureTwo hundred and ninety-four couples of parents of fiveyear-olds (153 girls, 141 boys) participated. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) was used to measure levels of sexism, and the Parental Attitudes Scale (SPR) was used to assess parental attitudes. resultsIn terms of the profile of parental attitudes, regardless of the child's sex, mothers and fathers scored highest for inconsequent and demanding attitudes, and lowest for overprotective and autonomy attitudes. The child's sex is also not important for the overall levels of parents' sexism -fathers exhibit higher levels of hostile sexism in comparison to mothers. Only the mothers' education level is important for levels of sexism -women with higher education exhibited the lowest levels of hostile sexism. The child's sex moderates relationships between parents' sexism and parental attitudes. In the case of mothers of sons, the intensity of benevolent sexism is negatively related to overprotective and demanding attitudes. The more educated the mothers of sons, the more demanding they were. For fathers of sons, the inconsequence attitude increases under the influence of both hostile and benevolent sexism. Among fathers of daughters, hostile sexism strengthens the overprotective attitude, while levels of both benevolent and hostile sexism as well as education influence the autonomy attitude. conclusionsThe gender of both the parents and the child moderates the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes. The role of sexism in shaping the attitude of mothers towards sons is the most prominent -it seems that it guards the 'manliness' of young boys.

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“…On the other hand, it can be observed that men increasingly often want to be engaged in being a father. A standard of a 'new father' appears, a father who wants to spend more time with children, who is engaged in family life and a father who thinks in another way about his role in society (Szlendak, 2010;Bakiera, 2013;Suwada, 2014;Humberd, Ladge, & Harrington, 2015;Kosakowska-Berezecka, Korzeniewska, & Kaczorowska, 2016;Rosińska & Tylka, 2016).…”

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Emotional state of “young” fathers

Liberska¹,

Deja²,

Janicka³

et al. 2016

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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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.

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Sharing housework can be healthy: cultural and psychological factors influencing men’s involvement in household maintenance

Cited by 19 publications

References 71 publications

Gender and Body-Fat Status as Predictors of Parental Feeding Styles and Children’s Nutritional Knowledge, Eating Habits and Behaviours

Gender and Body-Fat Status as Predictors of Parental Feeding Styles and Children’s Nutritional Knowledge, Eating Habits and Behaviours

"Daughter and son: a completely different story”? Gender as a moderator of the relationship between sexism and parental attitudes

Emotional state of “young” fathers

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