Father Relationship Research Articles

Prevalence and Correlates of Substance Use and the Effects on the Young People in a Southwestern State of Nigeria

In 2015, psychoactive substance use led to the deaths of 72 young people within a month across Ondo, Edo, and Rivers states in Nigeria, with Ondo being the most affected. The youth attributed these deaths to the wrath of the gods (Malokun) rather than alcohol consumption. This study aims to identify demographic factors influencing youth substance use in Ondo State. Using a cross-sectional, descriptive community study design, 500 participants aged 10 to 24 years were recruited. Data collected through a socio-demographic questionnaire and the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were analyzed with Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 16. The findings revealed that alcohol was the most used substance, with a lifetime use prevalence of 69.6%, likely due to the availability and cultural acceptability of local alcoholic products like ogogoro and palm wine. Substance use was found to negatively impact social life. Significant correlates of substance use included gender, age, religion, and father’s relationship. Males had higher lifetime use than females (p = 0.008), and substance use prevalence was higher among late adolescents (p = 0.0034). Christian respondents reported higher lifetime use compared to Muslims (p = 0.010). These results highlight that alcohol is the predominant substance used by young people in Ondo State, with key correlates being male gender, religion, less friendly father relationships, and late adolescence, informing public health strategies to mitigate harmful effects of substance use.

The relationship of father's knowledge and support as a breastfeeding father on exclusive breastfeeding in the working area of Public Health Center Batanghari Hospital East Lampung

<p><strong>Background</strong><strong><em>:</em></strong><em> Exclusive breastfeeding coverage in Lampung Province in 2020 was 70.1%, yet it still did not meet the expected target. Many factors influenced the success of exclusive breastfeeding. In providing breast milk, the father played a major role for the success. Father's knowledge and support in breastfeeding issues were the first thing the fathers needed to have to support breastfeeding practices. The fathers' support for the breastfeeding process was still lacking as society believed that breastfeeding was only the mother's duty. The support that a father could provide as a Breastfeeding Father could be in the form of helping with child care, helping with household chores, and providing food or other needs related to the breastfeeding process. Preliminary studies showed a lack of support from fathers for breastfeeding mothers at the Batanghari Lampung Community Health Center</em></p><p><strong><em>Objective</em></strong><strong><em>:</em></strong><em> The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the knowledge and the father's support as a breastfeeding father towards exclusive breastfeeding.</em></p><p><strong><em>Method</em></strong><strong><em>:</em></strong><em> This research was conducted in the Work Area of the Batanghari Inpatient Health Center, East Lampung in January - February 2023. The sample used was the fathers of infants aged 6-12 months in the Work Area of the Batanghari Inpatient Health Center, East Lampung, as many as 63 respondents obtained using accidental sampling technique . This research was a quantitative study using the Cross Sectional Study approach, analyzed by using the chi square test (α=0.05) for bivariate analysis.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results</em></strong><strong><em>:</em></strong><em> The results of this study indicates that there was a real relationship between the father's knowledge as a breastfeeding father and the father's support as a breastfeeding father on exclusive breastfeeding in the Work Area of the Batanghari Inpatient Health Center, East Lampung with p-values of 0.038 and 0.010.</em></p><p><strong><em>Conclusions: </em></strong><em>There is a significant relationship between father's knowledge and the father's support as a breastfeeding father and exclusive breastfeeding in the Batanghari Inpatient Health Center, East Lampung working area.</em></p>

A partial empirical test of the general strain theory on cyberbullying victimization among expatriate students

A partial empirical test of the general strain theory on cyberbullying victimization among expatriate students

Intervention on the Status of Unwed Children After the Constitutional Court Decision

Intervention on the status of children out of wedlock after the decision of the constitutional court and what constitutional judges considerations in issuing Decision Number 46 / PUU-VIII / 2010. This type of research is a type of normative legal research with a statute approach and conceptual approach. Sources of legal materials used are primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials. The legal material collection technique used is the literature study technique and then arranged descriptively and systematically. The results showed that (1) Since the Constitutional Court ruling No. 46 / PUU-VIII / 2010, an extramarital child can have a civil relationship with a man as his father if it can be proven by science and technology that the child has a blood relationship with the man. (2) Children are the result of a mother and father relationship either because of sexual relations or because other actions are in accordance with technological developments that can cause pregnancy, therefore the Constitutional Court judge granted judicial revew of Article 43 paragraph (1) of the 1945 constitution.

The Relationship of Father's Role to Stunting Prevention

The Relationship of Father's Role to Stunting Prevention

Fatherhood and Child–Father Attachment in Two Small-Scale Societies

Variation in attachment quality was assessed in 92 one- to three-year-olds’ (49 female, 43 male) attachment to their father, within and across two small-scale, subsistence populations: the Tsimane of lowland Bolivia ( n = 29 dyads) and Tannese of Vanuatu ( n = 63 dyads). Overall, the Tsimane and Tannese populations show similarity in the patterning of child–father attachment relative to samples from industrialized societies, with 52% of Tsimane dyads and 62% of Tannese dyads showing secure attachment. However, the insecure-ambivalent attachment was more frequent among Tsimane and Tannese dyads relative to samples from industrialized societies, and attachment security was greater for sons than for daughters in Tanna. Of several attributes of fathers, only reports by mothers of how frequently fathers play with their children are associated with child–father secure attachment. Fathers who scored highly on this measure were more likely to have children with secure attachments. Studies of child–father attachment are rare outside of industrialized populations yet are critical to understanding the mechanisms underlying child–father relationships.

The Child-Mother-Father-Teacher Relationship Network in Kindergarten and Its Association with Children's Social and Academic Development: An Ecological Perspective.

This study examines how a set of the child's proximal relationships (mother-child, father-child, and teacher-child) and parent-teacher relationships relate to the child's prosocial and learning behaviors in kindergarten. The sample included 95 mother-father-child triads (child mean age 5.9 years) and 42 kindergarten teachers. All adults reported on their relationship with the child and on their perceptions of parent-teacher relationships. Teachers reported on the child's behaviors. Main findings: (1) All proximal relationships and the teachers' relationships with mothers and fathers were related to children's outcomes; and (2) different patterns of associations were found between father-child and mother-child relationships, and teacher-child relationship, parent-teacher relationships, and children's outcomes. These findings hint to the different roles of fathers and mothers in their children's development and to distinguished patterns of relationships of mothers and fathers with kindergarten teachers.

"I am Christ": Keyness Analyses of Christ Claimants' Sermons

Various religious leaders claim that they are Jesus Christ (the fundamental figure in Christianity), which makestheir groups highly distinct from other religious groups. This claim allows society to view generally these leaders as false Christs. To guide individuals in society in identifying their characteristics empirically, in this paper, the language in the discourses of these leaders from the aboutness and communication style perspectives is viewed through the key linguistic features identified. The sermons of Apollo Quiboloy (the leader of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ) and the sermons of AJ Miller (the leader of Divine Truth) who view themselves as Jesus Christ incarnate were used as the target corpora. The sermons of these leaders were comparedto different versions of the four canonical gospels (namely, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) as the benchmark corpora found in the Christian Bible using keyness analyses to identify the patterns of key linguistic features in the sermons for language characterization. The findings show that the language in the sermons of Apollo Quiboloy displays concepts such as the relationship of father and I (son) which are likely to be similar when compared to the gospels, whereas the language in the sermons of AJ Miller displays psychological concepts which are likely to be different when compared to the gospels. The findings in the sermons of Christ claimants may allow the characteristics of these religious leaders to be identified.

The Effect of Antenatal Education on Expectant Fathers’ Attitudes toward Breastfeeding and Attachment to the Fetus

This study explores the effect of antenatal education on fathers' attitudes toward: (i) breastfeeding and (ii) attachment to the fetus. A secondary aim is to explore the relationship of fathers' demographic and the psycho-emotional characteristics that come with breastfeeding and attachment. This is a longitudinal study involving a group of 216 Greek expectant fathers who participated with their partners in an antenatal educational program performed by midwives in Athens, Greece (September 2020-November 2021). The Iowa Infant Feeding Attitudes Scale (IIFAS) and Paternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (PAAS) were administered at two time points: (a) 24th-28th gestation week and (b) 34th-38th gestation week. The T-test and Univariate Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) were performed. The expectant fathers' scores show that breastfeeding intention/exclusivity and prenatal attachment to the fetus were higher after their participation in the antenatal education program, but the difference was not statistically insignificant. Expectant fathers with a cohabitation agreement (p = 0.026), who felt very much supported by their partners (p = 0.001) and had no relationship difficulties with their partners (p < 0.001), as well as those who reported being very happy during pregnancy (p < 0.001), showed greater paternal antenatal attachment to the fetus. Although the difference was statistically insignificant, antenatal education appears to have an impact on paternal breastfeeding attitudes and antenatal attachment to the fetus. Additionally, several paternal characteristics were associated with greater antenatal attachment. Future research should be directed toward the investigation of additional factors that impact antenatal-paternal attachment and breastfeeding attitudes so that effective education programs can be designed.

An investigation of family factors that predict smoking among high school adolescents

ABSTRACT Background In the last few decades, numerous studies and review papers have examined a wide range of potential risk factors in an attempt to understand adolescent smoking. In the majority of those studies, family is often regarded as an important element in the life of an adolescent. Method The authors investigated whether family factors such as child–parent relationship and parental educational level are predictors of adolescent smoking status in three school types using archival data. Both Spearman correlation and Chi-square test of independence were used to examine the relationships. Results In viewing all the school types as one, the result showed that at (rho = .148, n = 751, p < 0.05), a significant positive relationship existed between child-father relationship and adolescent smoking but not with child–mother relationship. However, in controlling for school types, the Chi-square test of independence revealed (Imam Hatip high school (X2(8) = 7.121, p > 0.05), Anadolu high school (X2(8) = 12.423, p > 0.05) and Vocational high school (X2(8) = 17.744, p < 0.05) a relationship between child–mother relationship and adolescent in Vocational high school. As to whether the influence of child–father relationship on adolescent smoking differed in terms of school types, result suggested a relationship existed in all the three school types (Imam Hatip high school (X2(8) = 30.965, p < 0.05), Anadolu high school (X2(8) = 21.241, p < 0.05), and Vocational high school (X2(8) = 30.804, p < 0.05).

A Family Systems Perspective on Attachment Security and Dependency to Mother and Father in Preschool: Differential and Reciprocal Effects on Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems.

Attachment security and dependency play a decisive role for children's mental health. From a family systems perspective, reciprocal effects of dyadic attachment to each parent within the same family on child symptomatology may well offer additional insights in developmental processes as parents and children influence each other consistently. This study examined the influence of child-mother as well as child-father attachment security and dependency on maternal, paternal, and observed ratings of children's emotional and behavioral problems. A total of 124 families with preschool children participated in this study. Attachment security, dependency, and symptomatology of the children were independently observed during home visits. Furthermore, mothers and fathers rated child symptoms. Results revealed promotive effects of attachment security to both parents on observed child symptoms. Furthermore, we found a significant actor effect of child-mother attachment security, as well as a significant partner effect of child-father dependency on maternal ratings of child symptomatology. Attachment security to both parents is promotive for child mental health. The family systems perspective clarifies the meaning of child-father relationships for maternal perception of the own child.

Parental Bipolar Disorder and Attachment Insecurity in Young Adults

Maternal depression predicts attachment insecurity in children, but parental bipolar disorder effects are less clear, particularly as children emerge into young adulthood. We assessed attachment in young adult children of parents with bipolar disorder (vs. depression and no mood disorder). Participants completed romantic attachment and retrospective parenting behavior self-reports, and semi-structured diagnostic interviews. Young adults with parental bipolar disorder endorsed more Avoidant and Anxious attachment, with father relationship quality partially mediating the effect. Results underscore the association of parental mood disorders with offspring attachment in emerging adulthood and highlight the importance of fathers in this dynamic.

Penggarapan Ulang Ilustrasi Musik Film “Jendela” Karya Randi Pratama; Studi Karya Tugas Akhir Larasati Rahma Aditiara

This research aims to examine the basic idea of Larasati Rahma Aditiara in the re-create of the music illustration of the film "Jendela" by Randi Pratama and the stages and creative processes in it. The "Jendela" is a family drama movie that tells the story of a less harmonious father and son relationship. The relationship eventually improved, and communication returned harmoniously. The methods in this study are qualitative with an interpretive descriptive approach based on film music theory. The result of this study is the desire of Larasati Rahma Aditiara to interpret the meaning and emotions contained in the film "Jendela" by reworking the film's musical illustrations to be conveyed directly to the audience. The desire becomes the basis of the idea in work. The concept of this work uses leitmotif development and efforts to place musical idioms of Javanese tradition. There are stages of making work, namely the determination of the film music genre, the determination of films and workflows. The composer performs five workflows under the direction of the director. The work has seven cue sections of musical illustration, with a brief introduction. The finale part is played in the credit title at the end of the film.

The Relationship Between Resilience Degree and Perceived Parental Relationship, Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Personality Traits in the Emerging Adulthood

This study examines the relationships between resilience level and perceived parental relationship, cognitive emotion regulation, and personality traits in emerging adulthood. The sample of the research consists of undergraduate students whose age range is 18-25. The study was conducted with 609 people, 317 (52%) female and 292 (48%) male students. Resilience Scale (RS), The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Big Five Inventory (BFI) and Demographic Information Form were applied to the participants. One-way ANOVA analysis, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Analysis and Hierarchical Linear Regression analysis were used to analyse the data. In the study, resilience mean scores of female students were found to be higher than male students. A positive relationship was found between the resilience scores of university students and their perceived parental relationship scores. A significant negative relationship was found with self-blame, which is the sub-dimension of cognitive emotion regulation. A positive and significant relationship was found with the other sub-dimensions of cognitive emotion regulation, respectively; acceptance, rumination, positive refocusing, re-focus on the plan, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, other-blame and catastrophising. At the same time, a significant positive correlation was found between resilience scores and personality traits dimensions. According to the hierarchical regression analysis findings, it was concluded that perceived parental relationship, especially perceived father relationship, the catastrophising sub-dimension of cognitive emotion regulation, and personality traits predicted resilience. The study findings were discussed according to the relevant field, and recommendations were presented.

A New Look at Pygmalion: Alfred Doolittle and Henry Higgins as Absent (Substitute) Fathers

Abstract Scholarship of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), despite Shaw’s protestations that Eliza and Higgins can never marry, has for a century debated whether the play’s content and structure imply so. A less analysed route to resolving this issue is to more closely consider Eliza’s father, Arthur Doolittle. Some critics read Doolittle as largely a comic diversion meant to ironize her social transformation. Yet the marital question and Alfred Doolittle’s role are integrated strands, for Eliza’s emotions toward Higgins might be better understood as filial ones, as she attempts and fails to find fatherly love and acceptance from Higgins. Doolittle’s character helps establish this daughter–substitute father relationship by his role as an absent and emotionally unavailable parent.

Black fathers' personal histories, worldviews, and fathering behaviors

AbstractObjectiveWe examined links between boyhood and fatherhood in a thematic analysis of Black men's narratives about their childhood histories, connection of these experiences to their views about fathering, and descriptions of their fathering relationships and behaviors.BackgroundThere remains a critical need to understand how Black men father in a sociohistorical context that defines them as absent or deficient.MethodWe conducted in‐depth, semistructured qualitative interviews with 30 Black fathers with children in 4‐year‐old kindergarten through grade 12 education. We used life course theory and an integrative model of child development as conceptual frameworks to guide a mixed deductive–inductive analysis.ResultsWe identified three categories and seven themes within the categories: Personal History (Intergenerational Relationships, Negotiating Race and Racism, Turning Points), Fathering Worldview (Being a Father: The Nurturer, The Educator; Fathering Black Children), and Fathering Relationships and Behaviors (Father–Child Interaction, Racial Armoring). We also identified fathers' explicit connections of their Personal Histories to their Fathering Worldviews and, thereby, their Fathering Relationships and Behaviors.ConclusionThis article addresses ways that Black men make sense of their personal histories and connect these histories to how they raise their children.ImplicationsThis discussion of intergenerational linking of lives and turning points has significant implications for understanding Black family development in the racialized context of the United States and highlights the need for comprehensive mental health support for Black men and their families that focuses on racial trauma along with conceptual and empirical focus on impacts of anti‐Blackness on individual and family well‐being.

There Was a Young Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Understanding the Juxtaposition of Love, Hate, And Patriarchal ConfinementIn Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy”

In the opening of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” one glimpses a troubled young woman struggling to break free from patriarchal confinement. In a stark play on imagery, she equates her tomb of darkness to a “black shoe” where she has submissively “lived like a foot//Barely daring to breathe or Achoo” for her entire life (Plath 2-3,5). Plath opens the poem with an oppressive tone of confinement. Her tone is that of a victim unable to break free from the powerful pressing of her father. The daughter is acknowledging her life-long imprisonment through the image of conformity and obedience. Her testimony, “You do not do, you do not do/Anymore.” is an awakening, an ethereal understanding, she is no longer satisfied with being under her father’s foot (Plath 1-2). She mocks her submissiveness and fear by “Barely daring to breathe.” or express her autonomy outside of the domineering treatment designated by her father (Plath 5). “Daddy” juxtaposes the extremely childish and infantile dependency on the image of father versus the inherent desire to break free from the entrapment of masculine dominance. As Maher Mahdi points out in the article “From a Victim of the Feminine Mystique,” Plath is using “aspects of objectification” to create a breakdown of the typical family dynamic between father and daughter (98). The struggle is real, vigorous, and traumatic to the daughter speaking blatantly throughout the lines of “Daddy.” The battle rages as father and daughter fight metaphorically within the confines of the speaker’s mind. Plath offers the war-torn country as a backdrop to ease the reader into a sense of disquiet and upheaval. There is something obscenely immature in her attachment to the deceased father. She loves and hates him, desires her independence yet craves the security of her dependency, and she longs for him and yet strives to exorcise his demon from within her own soul. This emotional upheaval allows the reader to assess the speaker’s mental anguish and analyze “Daddy” on a more complex level. This study will explore 1) The juxtaposition of victim versus villain in the familial relationship of father and daughter; 2) The daughter’s search for autonomy and her unhealthy Oedipus complex; 3) Establishing identity beyond infantile attachment, or as Maher Mahdi points out, breaking free from immaturity requires a certain amount of viciousness in order for the daughter’s true liberation (Mahdi 100); 4) The exposure of the Jekyll and Hyde persona, which is noted by Isabelle Travis as the “blurred line” between recognizing the issues and finding one’s own part in the familial downfall (Travis 279).

Relationships of Fathers’ Play Participation, Parenting Stress, and Young Children’s Overuse of Smart Devices

목적 본 연구에서는 아버지의 놀이참여 및 양육스트레스와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입과의 관계를 살펴보고자 하였다. 방법 이를 위하여 대구광역시에 소재한 유치원 2곳의 만 3, 4, 5세 자녀를 둔 아버지와 그들의 자여 180명을 연구대상으로 하였다. 아버지의 놀이참여, 아버지의 양육스트레스와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입 검사도구를 활용하여 자료를 수집하고, Pearson의 적률상관분석 및 단계선택방식의 위계적 중다회귀분석을 실시하여 분석하였다. 결과 첫째, 아버지의 놀이참여와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입과의 관계에서 아버지의 놀이참여 전체와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입 전체 간에 유의미한 부적 상관관계가 나타났으며, 신체놀이와 게임은 이상발달, 과도한 추구, 집착적 사용과 스마트기기 과몰입 전체에 교수놀이와 기능놀이는 과도한 추구와 집착적 사용과 스마트기기 과몰입 전체에 유의미한 부적 상관관계가 나타났다. 둘째, 아버지의 양육스트레스와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입과의 상관관계에서 아버지의 양육스트레스 전체와 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입 전체 간에 유의미한 정적 상관관계가 나타났다. 셋째, 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입을 가장 의미있게 설명하는 변인은 부모역할에 대한 부담감 및 디스트레스와 신체놀이로 나타났다. 결론 유아의 스마트기기 과몰입을 방지하기 위해 아버지의 양육스트레스 감소 및 놀이참여의 중요성을 밝혔으며, 효과적인 아버지 참여 부모교육 프로그램과 사회적 시스템 지원의 필요성을 제안하였다.

The Relationship of Father's Involvement in Parenting with The Independent Level of Children Daily Living Activity in Children with Mental Retardation in SLB-C TPA Jember Regency

The mental retardation is one of the psychological limitations which have a characteristic level of intelligence (IQ) of approximately 70 or lower and experience difficulties in carrying out daily activities, communication, the ability to make self-decisions, recreation, work, health, and security. The method used in this research is a correlational study with a cross sectional approach with a total of 67 respondents using total sampling. The questionnaire given to analyze the involvement of fathers in parenting is the involvement of fathers in parenting by the NOC and to analyze the level of independence of daily living activities in children with mental retardation is Waissman-Activity daily living (W-ADL). The Spearman test was carried out to analyze objectively in this study. The results obtained in this study were as many as 58 (86.6%) fathers admitted that they were involved in caring for their children, and as many as 47 children (70.1%) based on their father's recognition that they had a high degree of independence in carrying out daily activities (r; -0.258; p- value = 0.035). This study recommends father and mother to train, guide, and educate children with mental retardation to improve children's abilities, especially in carrying out daily activities.&#x0D; Keywords: Father Involvement, Independence Activity daily living, Children With Mental Retardation

Kanne Lobal: A conceptual framework relating education and leadership partnerships in the Marshall Islands

Kanne Lobal: A conceptual framework relating education and leadership partnerships in the Marshall Islands