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Title: Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne |
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Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Family Structure; Fatherhood; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Siblings; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper was presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meetings, November 1999, in Washington, DC. This paper uses new data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how father involvement affects several behavioral outcomes for adolescents ages 10 to 14. Descriptive statistics on the sample characteristics and father involvement are presented; then, regression models are estimated to assess the overall effect of involvement by biological fathers, as well as the effect of involvement in particular family situations. |
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. "Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents." Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999. |