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Patterns of Coresident Adult Men in Maritally Disrupted Families and the Verbal Intellectual Functioning and Psychosocial Dysfunctioning of Young Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1990 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Children; Fathers; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; General Assessment; Grandparents; Marital Disruption; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences Although fathers increasingly are absent from the households in which children reside, children in disrupted homes still have substantial experience with adult men in their daily lives. Demographic trends of remarriage, cohabitation, and single mothers returning to live with their parents suggest that many children in divorced families co-reside with adult men who, to greater or lesser extents, may assume the social and economic roles of the absent father. Using a sample of 865 4-6-year-old children from the Children of the NLSY data, five common patterns of children's experiences with co-resident adult men in maritally disrupted families were found: No Male, Grandfather, Stepfather, Reunited Father, and Chaotic. Of the 205 children who experienced a marital disruption, approximately 30% were in the No Male pattern, but more than two-thirds were in one of the disrupted patterns that included extended co-residential experience with an adult male. For white children in disrupted families, the Stepfather pattern was the most common, while for nonwhite children in disrupted families, the Stepfather pattern was rare; instead, the No Male and Grandfather patterns were the most common. Hierarchical regression models with dummy-coded pattern indicator variables were used to explore how these patterns were associated with children's verbal-intellectual and psychosocial functioning. The models controlled for confounding factors identified in previous bivariate analyses: ethnicity, child age, child gender, maternal resources (intelligence, education, income, age), and household size. No differences were found between children in intact families and children in any of the disrupted patterns for the measure of verbal-intellectual functioning. For the measure of psychosocial functioning, only children in the Grandfather pattern were significantly different from children in the Intact pattern. Further analyses revealed that it was white children in this three-generation living arrangement who experienced problems; black children in this pattern did not experience the same level of problems as did the white children. Moreover, white children in the Grandfather pattern primarily experienced problems of dependency and inhibition. |
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Hawkins, Alan Jones. Patterns of Coresident Adult Men in Maritally Disrupted Families and the Verbal Intellectual Functioning and Psychosocial Dysfunctioning of Young Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1990. |