The role of the father Flashcards

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Historically, how were fathers viewed ?

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  • fathers played a minor role in parenting
  • fathers were seen as the provider of the family
  • fathers were seen as playmates
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because fathers are seen to engage babies in active play, what is thought to be their role ?

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  • to encourage risk taking behaviours
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what is the role of the father in the modern western society ?

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  • as women are more likely to take part in the work place
    -there is evidence to suggest that if men take on the role of primary caregivers, their interactional style changes to be more like mothers and increasing their sensitive responsiveness
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What do mothers show ?

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Sensitive responsiveness

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What is meant by sensitive responsiveness ?

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The ability to recognise and respond to infants needs

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What are the factors that affect the relationship between fathers and their children?

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  • degree of sensitivity
  • type of attachment with their own parent
  • marital intimacy
  • supportive co-parenting
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Degree of sensitivity

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More secure attachment to their children are found in fathers who show more sensitivity to childrens needs

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Type of attachment with their own parent

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Single parent fathrrs tend to form similar attachments with their children that they had with their own parent

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Marital intimacy

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The degree of intimacy a father has within his relationship with his partner affects the type of attachment he will have with his children

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Who investigated evidence for degree of sensitivity ?

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Gelger

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What did gelger find ?

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He showed that fathers play interactions are more exciting and pleasurable than mothers
Mothers are more nurturing and affectionate
This supports the idea that father’s are playmates rather than caregivers

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Supportive co-parenting

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The amount of support a father gives to his partner in helping to care for their children affects the type of attachment he will have with his children

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Who investigated evidence for the type of attachment wuth own parents ?

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Bernier

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What did Bernier find ?

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He found that single-parent fatger attachments with chikdren aged 4-6 years was similar to the attachment that fathers had with their own parents.

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As no such effect was found with married fathers in Bernier’s study, what does this suggest ?

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It suggest that the continuity of attachments occurs more in fathers who are the main care giver

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Who investigated the evidence for marital intimacy?

17
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What did Belsky find ?

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He found that high levels of marital intimacy was relaged ro secure father-infant attachments, and that low levels of marital intimacy was related to insecure father-child attachments

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Who investigated evidence for supportive co-parenting?

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What did Brown find ?

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He assessed attachment patterns of 68 families with infants aged 12-13 months, finding that high levels of supportive co-parenting were related to secure attachment types between infants and fathers but not infants and mothers

20
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what did Schaffer found about mothers as being the infants primary attachment figure ?

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  • in 65% of babies the mother was the primary attachment figure alone
21
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in what percentage of babies in Schaffers study were both parents the primary attachment figure ?

22
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in what percentage of babies in Schaffer’s research was the father alone the primary attachment figure ?

23
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however at 18 months what percentage of babies had formed an attachment to their father ?

24
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what does the babies forming a later attachment to the father show ?

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  • separation anxiety
  • and suggests that the father play an important role