Paternal Incarceration and Children’s Social-Emotional Functioning at Age Nine: Why Fathers’ Violence Matters
| Autor: | Heather M. Washington |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Longitudinal study
050402 sociology 0504 sociology 05 social sciences Propensity score matching Social emotional learning General Social Sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social competence Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Developmental psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Focus. 51:318-334 |
| ISSN: | 2162-1128 0038-0237 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00380237.2018.1446618 |
| Popis: | Research documents the consequences of parental incarceration for children’s well-being, and studies have begun to explore heterogeneity in parental incarceration’s influence on child outcomes. This study investigates the effect of paternal incarceration on children’s social competence. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal study of new parents in urban areas, I examine (1) the effect of recent paternal incarceration on multiple measures of children’s social-emotional functioning, including children’s social competence, and (2) whether fathers’ violence against mothers and children weakens the effect of recent paternal incarceration on children’s social-emotional functioning. The results from propensity score and multivariate regression analyses show that recent paternal incarceration is detrimental to children’s social-emotional functioning, in general. However, for some indicators of children’s social-emotional functioning, the effects of recent paternal ... |
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