其他摘要 | Fathering is a both old and young topic.He has always existed, but has long been ignored, even given biological significance. In the tradition of Chinese Confucian culture, the image of father is both clear and vague, both invisible and deep in the marrow. With the change of times, the role of father is increasingly favored by researchers. More and more studies show that father is important, even indispensable in the growth of children, and father participation plays a unique role in the development of children's socialization. Today, society lists the benefits of father involvement, urges fathers to focus on the family, and lacks effective policy measures. More and more fathers are expected to take on the dual roles of "child care" and "breadwinner", and more and more families are faced with the contradiction of needing more "emotional support" or "financial support" from fathers.
In this "battle for father", the function of father in the family and the mechanism of father involvement in the development of children are investigated, and the possibility of children's health development is explored when father involvement is insufficient due to some practical reasons. In this study, two sub-studies, one quantitative and one qualitative, were conducted to investigate the relationship between father involvement and adolescent's life satisfaction of from the perspective of relationship.
In the first study, questionnaires were used to investigate the relationship between father involvement and adolescent's life satisfaction and the mediating role of co-parenting and paternal attachment. Using The Inventory of Father Involvement Questionnaire(revised by Yin Xiayun), Co-parenting Relationship Scale(revised by Wu Jiaming), The father-child attachment component of Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (compiled by Armsden and Greenberg),and Adolescent Students' Life Satisfaction Scale(compiled by Zhang Xingui), through schools and the Internet, Questionnaires were distributed to at least one teenager aged 10-16 and his/her parents in the family, anonymous testing was conducted, and parent-child tripartite matching was carried out. Finally, 325 sets of effective family matching samples were obtained. After controlling for a range of demographic variables, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) there is a significant positive correlation between paternal involvement, co-parenting, paternal attachment and life satisfaction of adolescents. (2) The direct effect of paternal involvement on adolescent's life satisfaction is not significant, but indirectly through the mediating effect of co-parenting and paternal attachment, and the chain mediating effect of co-parenting and paternal attachment, respectively.
In the second study, Interviews were used to explore the positive life experience of the families in which father involvement is insufficient and the life satisfaction of adolescents is high, and to explore the function of the father in the family and the essence of the father's role in the family. Descriptive phenomenological research method is adopted to study families with insufficient father involvement and high life satisfaction of adolescents with Colaizzi phenomenological method. The sample (n=10) was taken from five families with mother and child aged 10-16 years. A clear picture of their experiences in the family was gained through in-depth interviews, which continued until no new information could be identified from the records. The study found that (1) The "breadwinner" and "climate regulator" are central to the
father's role in the family, and "play" is the most important function. (2) The "agreement" of both parents and the satisfaction of the mother's expectations are the core of the family relationship; "Boundaries" are key in family relationships. (3) Adolescents have limited self-regulation ability, and their families are still the main support system they rely on.
This study combines qualitative research with quantitative research. On the one hand, it explores the internal mechanism. Fathers' involvement does not directly affect adolescents' life satisfaction, but plays a role through the chain mediation of co-parenting and father-child attachment, which provides an explanation for the understanding of family operation dynamics. On the other hand, it also tries to provide some positive experience for reference to make up for the shortcomings of existing researches in the field of family rearing. That is, for families with insufficient father participation, under the premise of the same general direction of parents, it is still possible to maintain good family relations through the optimization of father's function, the differentiation of individual "boundaries" in the family and the self-adjustment of the mother to "successfully break the circle" in a certain link of the chain, so that adolescents can obtain a high degree of life satisfaction, which provides materials for practitioners to innovate intervention strategies. |
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