Korean J Child Stud. 2001; 22(2): 65-76.

Developmental Results of Generative Fathering and Attachment Security

생산적인 아버지노릇과 유아의 애착안정성의 발달적 결과 : 단기종단적 연구

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Young Hwan Lee

This study investigated the prediction of fathering and child`s attachment to father based on socio-emotional competence and father-child relationship. Fifty-five toddlers and their parents were assessed by the Generative Fathering Questionnaire (Yee et al., 1999) and the Attachment Security Q Set (Waters, 1987) when the children were 2 years old. After 12 months, the child`s socio-emotional competence and father-child relationship were assessed by questionnaire. The child`s socio-emotional competence was predicted by father`s sense of responsibility for child rearing but not by father`s involvement in child rearing. Attachment security partly predicted child`s socio-emotional competence and father-child relationship. Among the sub-categories of father-child relationship, warmth and closeness of the relationship was related to child`s socio-emotional competence.