title: A concept analysis of the role of fatherhood: a Japanese perspective.
abstract: A concept analysis of the father's role is presented from a Japanese perspective. To conceptualize the term father's role, the process for concept analysis was employed. The analysis resulted in a definition of the term and four defining attributes. Two dimensions of the father's role emerged as being most commonly used or implied: a behavioral dimension and a consequential dimension. Each of these dimensions had another four subcategories in terms of the direction of the consequences: those were to the child, the mother, the family, and the father himself. The findings will assist in instrument development and to a further understanding of the concept that will stimulate nursing theory development and research.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Duquesne University at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwata
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005219:Father-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010332:Paternal Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012380:Role; D012922:Social Change; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization