Fathers' Early Home Engagement and Children's Early Cognitive Development

• In Event: Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Early Literacy Learning and Instruction

Abstract

This research utilized data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (the ECLS-B) to examine the relationship between father involvement and young children’s early cognitive development. The study specifically examined fathers’ home engagement patterns based on their engagement in caregiving, play, and literacy activities when children were around 9-month-old and 24-month-old, and children’s later cognitive development in preschool in relation to their fathers’ engagement patterns as measured earlier. In the study, we use measures of father’s direct involvement with their children to create “fathering profiles”. In turn, we examined the extent to which such profiles shape or support children’s early learning.

Authors

• Oguzcan Cig, Florida State University

• Ithel Jones, Florida State University

• Ahmet Simsar, Florida State University