Date of Award
8-2004
Level of Access Assigned by Author
Campus-Only Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Human Development
Advisor
Mary Ellin Logue
Second Committee Member
Sandra L. Caron
Third Committee Member
Jodelle Austin
Abstract
This study explores the nature of fathers' involvement in their preschool children's everday life with a small number of fathers (n=11) whose preschool children are enrolled in the University of Maine child care centers. Specifically, this study explored the father's involvement with his child's daily routines, extra curricular and play activities, some of the reported differences between father-son and father-daughter relationships and their shared activities with each, and the father's own beliefs in fatherhood, including both his own experience as a father and his experience as a son with his own father. The results of the study add new information about the importance of understanding fathers and appreciating their desire to be very involved in their children's life. The results of this study were analyzed using both descriptive and qualitative statistics. Implications, further research and limitations of this study are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Yanakieva, Elena R., "Fathers' Involvement in their Young Children's Everyday Life: A Look at Father's Involvement in his Preschool Child's Physical, Social, Cognitive, and Emotional Development" (2004). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1220.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/1220