New Fathers
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The study conducted by Alternburger and Schoppe-Sullivan (2020) focuses on the new fathers’ parenting quality. In cases where fathers’ high-quality parenting behavior is demonstrated, there is the support of positive and emotional modification in kids. The research topic’s main feature includes personal, contextual, and child precursors. In that, the personal feature encompasses the parent’s personality, spontaneous behavior, and progressive belief. Contextual characteristics consist of supportive co-parenting, romantic relationship quality, and job satisfaction. Lastly, child temperament is displayed as the physiological based on people’s differences in reactivity and self-regulation.
Additionally, the research is based on the fathers’ involvement rather than the quality of involvement alone. The father-child relationship is made across the transition made to parenthood. The study shows this as a stressful period for fathers. Often, they report feeling of being bystanders, have access to insufficient resources, and experience difficulty navigating the transition with their romantic partners (Altenburger & Schoppe-Sullivan, 2020). In cases where the parental patterns are established during months following childbirth, they are displayed to stay stable over a long time. Therefore, offering support to the father’s parenting quality is significant in determining elements associated with high-quality parenting in the early months of parenthood.
The study played an important role in understanding the three elements of the new father’s parenting quality. The elements consisted of sensitivity, emotional engagement, and positive regard. This research took a comprehensive approach to make consideration of the multiple predictors. It displayed that the transition into parenthood is a critical moment of establishing the family system as a whole. The new research should find the relationship between co-parenting, infant character, and father’s parenting quality. With that, the fathers’ involvement in play practices is predicted to be more supportive a year later. Likewise, the relationship of personal, contextual, and child features with the father’s parenting quality may be reciprocal.
Reference
Altenburger, E. L., & Schoppe-Sullivan, J, S. (2020). New Father’s Parenting Quality: Personal, Contextual, and Child Precursors. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000753