Father’s Involvement When Bringing Baby Home: Efficacy Testing of a Couple-Focused Transition to Parenthood Intervention for Promoting Father Involvement.

Autor: Shapiro, Alyson F.; Gottman, John M.; Fink, Brandi C.

Publication year: 2020

Psychological reports

issn:1558-691X 0033-2941

doi: 10.1177/0033294119829436

Abstract:

The goal of the present research was to test the efficacy of the Bringing Baby Home couple-focused psychoeducational program for promoting father involvement and related satisfaction. A randomized clinical trial design was used to randomly assign 136 pregnant couples to either an intervention or control group. Father involvement post-intervention was assessed through self-report of engagement in parenting tasks. Intent-to-treat analysis of covariance analyses indicated that fathers who participated in the Bringing Baby Home program reported significantly more involvement in parenting tasks, satisfaction with the division of parenting labor, and feeling appreciated by their wives. Both husbands and wives were also more satisfied with the division of labor when fathers were more involved in parenting. Results suggest that couple-focused psychoeducational programs can be successful for promoting father involvement.

Language: eng

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Pmid: 30764710

Tags: Humans; Female; Male; Adult; Infant; Treatment Outcome; *Personal Satisfaction; Pregnancy; Fathers; Parenting/*psychology; *Psychotherapy; Fathers/*psychology; Spouses/*psychology; *Education, Nonprofessional; division of labor; father involvement; father responsibility; father satisfaction; Paternal Behavior/*psychology; transition to parenthood

Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30764710/