Japanese American Father Involvement: An Exploratory Model
Glenn Stone
Department of Social Work, Ball State University, Muncie, USA.
Summer Uyeda-Davis
Northkey Community Care, Clinician, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing Japanese-American father involvement with their children based upon a model put forth by Doherty, Kouneski, & Erickson [1]. Japanese-American males were recruited from the Honolulu area and surrounding neighborhoods in Hawaii. Sixty-eight fathers met the criterion for inclusion in the study. Statistically significant relationships were found between father involvement and (a) non-family extended support, (b) father role salience, and (c) the ethnicity of the father’s partner. Implications of these findings for practice and future research are discussed.
Keywords: Fatherhood, japanese-american, involvement, role saliency