38. PATERNAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD CAREGIVING AND INFANT SOCIABILITY
38. FRANCE FRASCAROLO, PhD;
Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques; Institut de psychologie, Lausanne.
Using
a variant of the “strange situation” ( http://www.simplypsychology.org/mary-ainsworth.html ) this study shows that children with such
involved fathers are more sociable and have more secure relationships not only
to those fathers, but their mothers too, indicating that mothers benefit from children having secure attachments and meaningful relationships with their father.
FRASCAROLO
concludes:
"Based
on the results of this study, it appears that clinical policies would gain by
not
exclusively
focusing on the mother–infant dyad but also including the father in therapy (Barrows, 1999;
Carr, 1998).
"Indeed, as was evident from this study, paternal involvement in daily caregiving is not only linked to father–child interactions but also to those of the mother–child dyad and the child’s sociability with a strange person. Hence, the interactions between the father and the child are linked to other aspects of the familial system, and it could be useful to consider this perspective in therapeutic situations."
"Indeed, as was evident from this study, paternal involvement in daily caregiving is not only linked to father–child interactions but also to those of the mother–child dyad and the child’s sociability with a strange person. Hence, the interactions between the father and the child are linked to other aspects of the familial system, and it could be useful to consider this perspective in therapeutic situations."
