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Finlay AK, Cookston JT, Saenz DS, et al. Attributions of Fathering Behaviors Among Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Depressive Symptoms. J Fam Issues. 2014;35(4):501-525doi: 10.1177/0192513X13478404.
Finlay, A. K., Cookston, J. T., Saenz, D. S., Baham, M. E., Parke, R. D., Fabricius, W., & Braver, S. (2014). Attributions of Fathering Behaviors Among Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Depressive Symptoms. Journal of family issues, 35(4), 501-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X13478404
Finlay, Andrea K, et al. "Attributions of Fathering Behaviors Among Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Depressive Symptoms." Journal of family issues vol. 35,4 (2014): 501-525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X13478404
Finlay AK, Cookston JT, Saenz DS, Baham ME, Parke RD, Fabricius W, Braver S. Attributions of Fathering Behaviors Among Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Depressive Symptoms. J Fam Issues. 2014 Mar 01;35(4):501-525. doi: 10.1177/0192513X13478404. PMID: 24855327; PMCID: PMC4026367.
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J Fam Issues. 2014 Mar 01;35(4):501-525. doi: 10.1177/0192513X13478404.

Attributions of Fathering Behaviors Among Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Depressive Symptoms.

Journal of family issues

Andrea K Finlay, Jeffrey T Cookston, Delia S Saenz, Melinda E Baham, Ross D Parke, William Fabricius, Sanford Braver

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, 110 South Henderson Building, University Park, PA 16802; Work number: 650-493-5000/1-2-22434; ; [email protected].
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PMID: 24855327 PMCID: PMC4026367 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X13478404

Abstract

Little attention has been paid to how early adolescents make attributions for their fathers' behavior. Guided by symbolic interaction theory, we examined how adolescent gender, ethnicity, family structure, and depressive symptoms explained attributions for residential father behavior. 382 adolescents, grouped by ethnicity (European American, Mexican American) and family structure (intact, stepfamilies), reported attributions for their fathers' positive and negative behaviors. Results indicated that for positive events girls made significantly more stable attributions, whereas boys made more unstable attributions. Mexican American adolescents tended to make more unstable attributions for positive events than European Americans, and adolescents from intact families made more stable attributions for positive events than adolescents from stepfamilies. Implications are discussed for the role of attributions in father-adolescent relationships as prime for intervention in families.

Keywords: Attributions; depressive symptoms; ethnicity; family relations

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