This study researched how sociodemographic variables (father’s weekly total working hours and the number of children), gender role attitudes of a father, and maternal gatekeeping influence parental involvement of a father. Also, after controlling th...
This study researched how sociodemographic variables (father’s weekly total working hours and the number of children), gender role attitudes of a father, and maternal gatekeeping influence parental involvement of a father. Also, after controlling the influence of the sociodemographic variables, this study researched whether there was interaction effect between the gender role attitudes of a father and the maternal gatekeeping or not.
As study subjects, this study selected 184 pairs of dual income families who send their 3 to 4 year-old children to a daycare facility in Gyeonggi Province. This study utilized a measure of ‘Productive Fatherhood for Preschool Children’, developed by Lee Young Hwan, Lee Jin Sook, and Cho Bok Hee(1999) in order to estimate paternal involvement, a measure developed by Kang Ki Yeon(2000) in order to estimate gender role attitude, and a measure of the ‘Parental Regulation Inventory(PRI)’ with some modification, which was developed by Van Van Egenren(2000) and translated and modified by Hwang Yun Ha and Kim Hee Jin(2015) in order to maternal gatekeeping. Fathers of the subjects directly answered a questionnaire related to the paternal involvement and the gender role attitudes and mothers of the subjects directly answered a questionnaire related to the maternal gatekeeping.
This study analyzed relationship among the sociodemographic variables, the paternal involvement, the gender role attitudes of a father, and maternal gatekeeping as utilizing product-moment correlation coefficient of Pearson. This study conducted hierarchical regression analysis to identify whether the sociodemographic variables, the gender role attitudes of a father, and the maternal gate keeping influence the paternal involvement and to research interaction effects between the gender role attitudes of a father and the maternal gatekeeping.
The results of this study are as follows. First, as the results of conducting hierarchical regression analysis in order to research influential variables to the paternal involvement, this study found that the paternal involvement could be increased as a father’s working time is shorter, a father has the more modernized gender role attitudes, and a mother does the more gate opening. On the other hand, the number of children and a mother’s gate closing could not influence the paternal involvements significantly.
Second, whether the mother’s gate opening is a lot or little could influence the paternal involvement, and its direction changed depending on whether the gender role attitude of the father is traditional or modern. Indeed, a father who has a traditional gender role attitude takes the higher paternal involvements when a mother conducts the more gate opening, and another father who has a modern gender role attitude takes the higher paternal involvement when a mother conducts the less gate opening.
In conclusion, among the sociodemographic variables, the weekly total working hours of a father, the gender role attitude of a father, and the gate opening of a mother could influence the paternal involvement significantly, and the influence of the mother’s gate opening could be changed depending on the gender role attitude of a father.