The Role of the Father

Question 1

Procedure G

Answer 1

• Grossman
• longitudinal study infant-teen
• looked at parent behaviour and attachment quality
• M: quality of attachment related to adolescent attachment
• F: quality of play+stimulation related to adolescent attachment
• independent roles

Question 2

Procedure SE

Answer 2

• primary attachment = mother
• father = 3%
• 27% joint first attachment
• 18m = 75% attachment w/ father

Question 3

Procedure F

Answer 3

• Field
• Filmed 4 month old baby face to face w/ primary mother, secondary father, primary father
• Primary caregiver father and mother spent more time smiling, imitating and holding then 2-fathers
• fathers have potential to be emotion-focused
• only in role of primary caregiver

Question 4

Confliction

Answer 4

• Grossman: father = distinct stimulation role
• Golombok: no father families do not develop differently so no distinct role

HOWEVER

• may not be confliction
• could be that there are two distinctive roles but mothers can accommodate those roles if no present father

Question 5

Real-world application

Answer 5

• mothers may be pressured to stay home
• fathers may be pressured to work
  Golombok and Field show either parent can adapt to a non-traditional role effectively
• reduce parental anxiety

Question 6

Bias

Answer 6

• preconceptions about how fathers should behave e.g. advertising like fathers are stricter causes unintentional observer bias
• researchers and observers ‘see’ what they expect to rather than record objective reality

Question 7

Clever Cooks Roast Beef

Answer 7

Conflict, Counterpoint, Real-world application, Bias

Question 8

CRB

Answer 8

Clever Rabbits Bounce