The role of the father Flashcards

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In attachment research who is the father?

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The father is anyone who takes on the role of the male caregiver

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Who did schaffer and emerson find babies usually attach to first and when ?

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With their mothers around 7 months

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What percentage of babies were fathers first sole object of attachment?

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3%

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What percentage of babies were joint first object of attachment with mother?

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27%

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What percentage of infants formed an attachment to father at 18 months?

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75%

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What did Grossmann et al carry out to find out whether fathers hold specifically value in child’s development ?

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A longitudinal study

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What did Grossmann look at?

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Parents behaviour and it’s relationship to the quality of baby’s later attachments

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What did Grossmann find about attachment with mother?

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Quality of baby’s attachment with mother was linked to children’s attachment in adolescence

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What did Grossmann find about attachment with father?

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Quality of fathers play was related to quality of adolescents attachments

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What does Grossmann findings suggest?

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Fathers have a different role more to do with play and stimulation rather than emotional development

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What did Field et al observe?

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Face to face interactions between infants and primary caregiver mothers, fathers and secondary caregivers father

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What did Field find based on observations?

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Primary caregiver fathers spent more time like mother smiling, imitating and holding babies than secondary caregiver fathers

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What does Fields findings suggests?

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Shows that father can have be more nurturing and can adopt an emotional role - gender is not key but level of reposiveness

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Why does research on the role of father lack clarity?

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The question ‘what is the role of the father’
is complicated, some researchers interpret this as looking at SAF others PAF - makes it difficult to offer a simple answer

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What conflicting evidence is there for fathers having a distinct role ?

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We would expect children growing up in single mothers and lesbian parent families to turn out some way differnet from those in heterosexual families but they don’t.
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Whether fathers have a Distinct role is unanswered

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What is a counter of conflicting evidence weakness?

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Research may not be in conflict with eachother, could be that parents in single mother and lesbian parent families adapt to accommodate role played by fathers,

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what is a strength of role of father research ?

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It can offer advice to parents, inform heterosexual parents that fathers are capable of becoming PAF and single mother families can be informed that not having a father around does not affect child’s development

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If fathers are capable of being PAF, what does this mean for mothers?

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They can feel more relieved about going back to work and not pressured to stay home because of stereotypical views