The Unique Effects of Fathers’ Warmth on Adolescents’ Positive Beliefs and Behaviors: Pathways to Resilience in Low-Income Families
| Autor: | Karen Moran Jackson, Kadie R. Rackley, Paul A. Robbins, Shannon McClain, Marie-Anne P Suizzo, Jason R. D. Rarick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Self-efficacy
Low income Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Ethnic group Academic development 050109 social psychology Mexican americans Developmental psychology Emotional well-being body regions Gender Studies Optimism Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Path analysis (statistics) psychological phenomena and processes 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sex Roles. 77:46-58 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2762 0360-0025 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11199-016-0696-9 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to investigate the pathways through which fathers’ warmth influences adolescents’ grades. We investigated the positive beliefs of optimism and academic self-efficacy, and the motivational construct of determination, as possible mediators. Questionnaire data were collected from a sample of 183 sixth-graders (78 male, 105 female) from low-income families: 133 Mexican Americans, 36 African Americans, 11 European Americans, and 3 other ethnicity. Multigroup SEM path analysis was used to test two path models and investigate variations in these models by adolescents’ gender. Results revealed that, controlling for mothers’ warmth, fathers’ warmth predicts adolescents’ positive beliefs and that these relations vary by adolescents’ gender. For male adolescents, relations between fathers’ warmth and English language arts grades are mediated by academic self-efficacy and determination to persist on challenging schoolwork. For female adolescents, relations between fathers’ warmth and math grades are mediated by optimism and determination. These results demonstrate the unique contributions of fathers’ warmth to their sons’ and daughters’ emotional and academic development. Our study suggests that counselors and educators may positively influence adolescents’ well-being by encouraging fathers to communicate warmth and acceptance to their adolescents. |
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