ERIC Number: EJ877724
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Coercive and Prosocial Fathering, Antisocial Personality, and Growth in Children's Postdivorce Noncompliance
DeGarmo, David Scott
Child Development, v81 n2 p503-516 Mar-Apr 2010
To better understand quantity and quality of divorced father contact, a weighted county sample of 230 divorced fathers with a child aged 4-11 years was employed to test whether fathers' antisocial personality (ASP) moderated effects of monthly contact with children in predicting children's observed noncompliance. Eighteen-month latent growth models obtained significant individual differences in levels of noncompliance and growth rates. ASP significantly moderated beneficial impact of fathers' monthly contact. Fathers' observed parenting practices significantly predicted noncompliance levels but not growth. Parenting did not account for the effect of Contact x ASP, suggesting both environmental and potentially genetic influences on child adjustment. Findings were robust across boys and girls and age levels. Implications for preventive intervention are discussed.
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Personality, Fathers, Divorce, Evaluation Methods, Adjustment (to Environment), Intervention, Models, Individual Differences, Compliance (Psychology), Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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