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Author: Cabrera, Natasha
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1. Cabrera, Natasha
Hofferth, Sandra L.
Hancock, Gregory
Family Structure, Maternal Employment, and Change in Children's Externalizing Problem Behaviour: Differences by Age and Self-regulation
European Journal of Developmental Psychology 11,2 (2014): 136-158.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405629.2013.873716#.VOOn0mPOnsk
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Temperament; Family Structure; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Presence; Maternal Employment; Parent-Child Interaction; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Control/Self-Regulation; Temperament

This study used a latent difference score growth model to investigate how changes in family structure (biological father and stepfather residence) and maternal employment are associated with American children's externalizing problem behaviours (EPB) from ages 4-10 and whether these associations vary by children's level of self-regulation. For all 4-year-old children, living with a biological father at age 4 was associated with reductions in EPB at ages 4-6 and later years, with no variation by child self-regulation. Living with a stepfather at age 4 was associated with higher levels of EPB at age 4; however, for less-regulated children, stepfather residence at ages 4 and 8 was associated with reductions in EPB between ages 4-6 and 8-10, respectively. Greater employment hours were associated with increased EPB in the next 2 years for less-regulated children of all ages; however, except for the age 4-6 transition, there was a lagged association that reduced behaviour problems after 2 years and outweighed short-term increases.
Bibliography Citation
Cabrera, Natasha, Sandra L. Hofferth and Gregory Hancock. "Family Structure, Maternal Employment, and Change in Children's Externalizing Problem Behaviour: Differences by Age and Self-regulation." European Journal of Developmental Psychology 11,2 (2014): 136-158.
2. Hofferth, Sandra L.
Cabrera, Natasha
Forry, Nicole D.
Pleck, Joseph H.
Paternal Residence and Parental Involvement with Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Parental Relationship Quality
Working Paper, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, February 2008
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Maryland Population Research Center
Keyword(s): CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Child Support; Ethnic Differences; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Involvement; Fathers, Presence; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Maternal Employment; Parent-Child Interaction; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Racial Differences; Relationship Conflict

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper addresses the association of biological fathers' residence to their involvement and to mothers' involvement with their adolescent children, and the role of parental relationship quality in this association. It uses as its sample 2,161 adolescent children of young women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Children living with their biological fathers report greater father involvement than children whose fathers are nonresidential, but this relationship is fully mediated by the quality of the relationship between the two parents. In addition, biological fathers' nonresidence has a direct positive contextual effect on maternal involvement, but has a stronger indirect negative effect via parental relationship quality. Failing to get along with one's partner has direct associations with both father and mother involvement, as well as mediates the linkage between fathers' nonresidence and the involvement of both parents.
Bibliography Citation
Hofferth, Sandra L., Natasha Cabrera, Nicole D. Forry and Joseph H. Pleck. "Paternal Residence and Parental Involvement with Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Parental Relationship Quality." Working Paper, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, February 2008.
3. Linver, Miriam R.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Cabrera, Natasha
Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory: The Derivation of Conceptually Designed Subscales
Parenting: Science and Practice 4, 2-3 (April-September 2004): 99-114.
Also: http://www.parentingscienceandpractice.com/Past_Contents/V4_2_3/v4_2_3.htm
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ==> Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP); Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN); Scale Construction

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Bibliography Citation
Linver, Miriam R., Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Natasha Cabrera. "Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory: The Derivation of Conceptually Designed Subscales." Parenting: Science and Practice 4, 2-3 (April-September 2004): 99-114.
4. Pleck, Joseph H.
Hofferth, Sandra L.
Vesely, Colleen
Cabrera, Natasha
The Transmission of Fathering from Fathers and Mothers to Sons
Presented: Toronto, ON, Father Involvement Research Conference, October 2008.
Also: http://www.fira.ca/cms/documents/147/Transmission_of_fathering_etc-pleck.ppt
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Father Involvement Research Alliance
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Discipline; Fathers, Involvement; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parent-Child Interaction; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

While most attention in the media and in work-life scholarship has focused on the challenges and opportunities of working mothers, a shift to understanding fathers experiences is needed. As dual career couples become the norm (women in the US now out-earn their spouse in nearly one out of four couples) and men express greater desire to share caring responsibilities, the time seems right to address this under-researched group. What we seek to understand is how men experience fatherhood with respect to its impact on their identity and self-image. In this study, we explore the ways fathers define themselves in the context of being a working parent. We also look at the how the degree of child involvement, as well as other external factors both inside and outside their work environment, influence and shape their identity. Finally, we address how the formation of a working father identity influences career attitudes, behaviors and intentions. We will share the results of a pilot study we are conducting with relatively new fathers and follow with a discussion of the practical and scholarly implications of our findings. We will also consider ways that fathers can be assisted as they go through this change process in their own lives and discuss what can be done to help them re-define and better understand what constitutes professional and personal success.
Bibliography Citation
Pleck, Joseph H., Sandra L. Hofferth, Colleen Vesely and Natasha Cabrera. "The Transmission of Fathering from Fathers and Mothers to Sons." Presented: Toronto, ON, Father Involvement Research Conference, October 2008.