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2-190 - The Role of the Father: Links Between Parent-Child Interactions and Children’s Social-Emotional Development

Fri, March 22, 3:00 to 4:30pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 341

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

The interactions that children have with their immediate environment determine their later development. Specifically, proximal interactions with their parents are crucial in shaping a variety of social-emotional developments. Although studies have shown that fathers positively affect children’s social-emotional development, the question remains whether and to what extent fathers have a unique influence - the majority of studies on parenting have focused solely on mothers or fathers.
This symposium aims to compare quality of interactions and attachment relationships between fathers and mothers and its link to children’ social-emotional development. Furthermore, the symposium will present data of both low and high SES families to examine whether paternal and maternal effects hold true across different social strata.
The first and second presentation focus on quality of maternal and paternal interactions (e.g. sensitivity and intrusiveness) with infants. The first presenter discusses the association between parenting skills and children’s social competence in a low SES US-sample. The second presentation investigates quality of parenting and its associations with gender in gay father, lesbian-mother, and heterosexual-parent families with high SES from the U.K., France and the Netherlands. The third and fourth presentation both examine how father-child and mother-child attachment relationships are related to children’s social-emotional development at age three, where the third focuses on a middle-income US-sample and the fourth differentiates between high and low SES Dutch families.
Jointly, these presentations explore the extent to which the role of fathers, specifically regarding the development of children’s socio-emotional development, is unique compared to that of mothers.

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