Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Psychology
Major Professor
Vicky Phares, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Judith Bryant, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jack Darkes, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Robert Dedrick, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Eric Storch, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Carla Stover, Ph.D.
Keywords
Fathers, African American, Coparenting, Internalizing, Externalizing
Abstract
This study examined the role of nonresidential, Black fathers in the psychosocial adjustment of Black adolescents from single-mother households. Participants included 107 noncohabiting Black parental dyads with children between the ages of 12 and 18 years. Participants completed measures of positive parenting, parent-child relationship quality, depressive symptoms, coparenting relationship quality, and adolescents’ emotional and behavioral functioning. Results of hierarchical multiple regressions found that father factors contributed unique variance to adolescent outcomes when using father-reported and combined father- and mother-reported adolescent functioning. Coparenting relationship quality mediated the relationship between father-child relationship quality and adolescent behavioral problems when using mother-reported and combined father- and mother-reported adolescent functioning. This study highlights the unique contributions of nonresident Black father factors to adolescent outcomes and supports the need for further research in this area.
Scholar Commons Citation
Coates, Erica Elizabeth, "Nonresident Paternal Factors and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Black Adolescents from Single-Mother Households" (2017). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6816
