HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Life Satisfaction, Father
12 May 2016
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As fathers actively engage in improving the quality of these three components they develop competencies that they didn"t have before. The new capabilities are transferrable to other contexts like work and relationships. Not just how spend time and money. True developmental change (relatively permanent, functionally significant, qualitatively different) Not all fathers will recap the same pattern or degree of developmental benefit from involved fathering. Satisfaction of watching children grow, develop and accomplish things. Different allocation of resources, time energy and money. Depend on patterns and levels of involvement (timing, dose and durations) Different patterns of developmental outcomes for men making transition to fatherhood at different times. Builds case for positive father involvement having child outcome effects. Growing evidence that fi influences father development. More precise quantitative data needed especially longitudinal data linking men"s patterns of development with valid measures of changes in their adult development. Most individuals spend about 1/3 of their lives at work.
