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Author: Roy, Kevin
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Roy, Kevin |
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Father Closeness and Adult Son's School/Work Engagement Presented: Toronto, ON, Father Involvement Research Conference, October 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Father Involvement Research Alliance Keyword(s): Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Fathers, Influence; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Young men move through diverse pathways from adolescence into adulthood, seeking successful engagement with school and work despite substantial risks. Research is limited on how families can help to stabilize their transitions into adulthood. Specifically, what are the effects of early and later paternal involvement on sons' connection to school and work during young adulthood? We use a sample of young adult men (ages 18-24) (n = 1050) from the NLSY 79 Young Adult study to examine these intergenerational influences. Connection to school or work is measured as a dichotomous variable; if young men work less than 20 hours per week or do not attend school, they receive a score of 0, and if they are employed more than 20 hours per week or attend school, they receive a score of 1. Preliminary binomial logistic regression analyses indicate that closeness with father in adolescence but not young adulthood is associated with young adults' participation in post-secondary education and in employment. These effects hold even after controlling for involvement with mothers in adolescence and young adulthood. Further analyses will examine how father involvement in adolescence and young adulthood predict highest grade completed in school and young adults' level of employment, based on number of hours employed and wages earned. Implications for theory and practice will be considered, including effects of timing of paternal involvement; importance of accounting for closeness in measures of father involvement; and conceptualization of paternal involvement over the life course. |
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Roy, Kevin. "Father Closeness and Adult Son's School/Work Engagement." Presented: Toronto, ON, Father Involvement Research Conference, October 2008. |
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Roy, Kevin Vesely, Colleen Fitzgerald, Megan Jones, Nicolle Buckmiller |
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Young Fathers at Work: The Influence of Parental Closeness and Contact on Employment Research in Human Development 7,2 (2010): 123-139. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427609.2010.481537 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Fathers and Sons; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from 297 young fathers (ages 18 to 25) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adult Survey, the authors examined the effects of self-reported closeness and contact with mothers and fathers during young adulthood on number of hours worked per week (first alone, then controlling for parent involvement during adolescence, then with background and risk factors). Young fathers' closeness to their fathers was associated with underemployment through all three models, and prior conviction predicted minimal work (0–19 hours). This suggests that young fathers receive critical emotional support from their own fathers during periods of underemployment in the transition to adulthood. |
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Roy, Kevin, Colleen Vesely, Megan Fitzgerald and Nicolle Buckmiller Jones. "Young Fathers at Work: The Influence of Parental Closeness and Contact on Employment." Research in Human Development 7,2 (2010): 123-139.
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