Role of the father Flashcards
What did Frodi find in 1978 ?
Found no differences in the physiological responses of men and women.
What did Shaffer and Emerson find in 1964 ?
In 75% of the infants studied an attachment was formed with the father by the age of 18 months.
What did Hrdy find in 1997?
Fathers were less able than mothers to detect low levels of infants distress.
What did Geiger find in 1996?
Fathers play interactions are more exciting and pleasurable than mothers’ whilst mmothers are more nurturing and affectionate.
One negative of findings in role of the father is that their is inconsistant findings.
The resaerch exploring the role of the father is contradictory. Some researchers explore the father as a secondary attachment figure, others expore fathers as the primary attachment figure.
It can be criticised as being ethnocentric.
This is due to the fact that most of the research has been conducted in the Western world. This means it may only apply to individualstic cultures where sterotypical gender roles are diffrernet from those on colectivist cultures. This means that the role of fathers may not be applicable to other cultures.
It can be questioned if their is distinct roles?
Grossman found fathers as secondary attachment figures had an importanat role to play in their childs attachment. But Golombock foud kids growinf up in single parent or same sex famileies do not develop differently to those in a 2-parent hetrosexual families.
