title: Pilot Study of a Program to Increase Mothers' Understanding of Dads.
abstract: The present study evaluated the effects of mothers' participation in an 8-week coparenting intervention program, Understanding Dad™, on mothers' awareness and attitudes regarding how their relationships with fathers influence paternal involvement with children, knowledge of healthy pro-relationship skills, and relationship self-efficacy. Thirty-four mothers were recruited from four sites to participate in a study that used a pretest/posttest one-group design. Over the course of this 8-week program, mothers demonstrated moderate to large gains in each of the outcome measures, after controlling for mothers' educational level. Moreover, there was one significant within-subjects interaction effect for time × location. That is, mothers made significantly greater gains in pro-relationship knowledge in one of the intervention sites. Implications for future research are discussed.
authors: School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
authors: Jay
authors: J
authors: Fagan
authors: School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
authors: Mollie
authors: M
authors: Cherson
authors: School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Brown
authors: School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Vecere
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032882:Comprehension; D004505:Education, Nonprofessional; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting; D010865:Pilot Projects; D020377:Self Efficacy; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Coparenting; Gatekeeping; Relationship Awareness; Responsible Fatherhood; co-crianza; conocimiento sobre la relación; organización; paternidad responsable; 共同养育子女; 关系意识; 把关; 有责任的父亲角色