Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural Families.
Abstract
To examine the implications of paternal occupational conditions for the quality of
father-infant interactions, home visits, including interviews and videotaped observations
of father-infant interactions, were conducted with 446 fathers living in six low-income,
nonmetropolitan counties in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. When a variety of individual
and demographic characteristics were controlled for, a less supportive work environment
was associated with lower levels of fathers' engaged and sensitive parenting. Significant
interactions pointed to the importance of understanding combinations of risk factors.
Experiencing high levels of workplace stressors, including low levels of self-direction
and high levels of care work, in the presence of other individual or demographic risk
factors was associated with lower levels of father parenting quality.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15886Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00511.Publication Info
Goodman; B, W; Crouter; C, A; Lanza; T, S; ... Investigators, The Family Life Project
Key (2008). Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural
Families. J Marriage Fam, 70(3). pp. 640-653. 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00511.. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15886.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Ben Goodman
Research Scientist
Ben Goodman, PhD, is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy
(CCFP) and a senior fellow at the Center for Child & Family Health at Duke University.
He currently serves as the co-director of the Family Connects home visiting programs
at CCFP: Durham Connects. In this capacity, he oversees program evaluation for all
communities implementing Family Connects and leads the impact evaluation

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