Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 166-174.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.02.05

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The Impact of Paternal Attitudes about the Role of Father on Father Involvement: A Mediated Moderation Model

ZOU Shengqi, WU Xinchun, LIU Chang   

  1. School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2016-03-15 Published:2016-03-15

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Abstract: Based on Maternal Gatekeeping and Identity Theory, this study explored the mechanism of paternal attitudes about the role of father on father involvement and constructed a mediated moderation model in which father's coparenting mediated the interaction effect of parental attitudes about the role of father on father involvement. This study investigated 364 pairs of preschool-child's parents who were from different areas of China by Inventory of Father Involvement, Inventory of Parental Attitudes about the Role of Father and Co-parenting Scale. The results indicated that mother's attitude about father's parenting value is a promotive factor of father involvement, and moderated the relationship between paternal attitude about their own parenting value and father involvement and this moderated effect mediated by father's coparenting. These results improved our knowledge of the effect of maternal gatekeeping and also have practical significance on intervention activities.

Key words: parental attitudes, father's parenting value, coparenting, father involvement, the effect of Maternal Gatekeeping

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  • B844
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