Abstract: The study of adolescent childbearing is a major public policy concern in the United States, and father involvement is particularly important. The current study examined 94 African American and Latino adolescent mothers and their children’s fathers (47 co-parents) to determine whether co-parenting was a better predictor of father involvement than was relationship quality and whether postnatal co-parenting mediated the relationship between prenatal relationship quality and postnatal father involvement. Results were mixed; a full structural equation modeling (SEM) model primarily supported previous literature, suggesting that, according to mothers, postnatal co-parenting was the strongest predictor of father involvement. However, when postnatal relationship quality was added to a regression analysis, co-parenting did not predict father involvement. Further, a mediation analysis did not support a mediating effect of co-parenting on the association between relationship quality and father involvement. The results of this study suggest that relationship quality may be of equal or greater importance than the co-parenting relationship as a potential point of intervention for improving father involvement in adolescent African American and Latino parents.

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非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲人青少年的同父母父母，关系质量和父亲参与

摘要：在美国，青春期生育的研究是一项主要的公共政策关注，父亲的参与尤其重要。本研究调查了94名非洲裔美国和拉丁美洲裔的青春期母亲及其子女的父亲（47名同父母），以确定与父母的关系是否比与父母的关系更好地预测了父母的关系，以及产后共同父母是否介导了产前关系之间的关系质量和产后父亲的参与度。结果好坏参半；完整的结构方程模型（SEM）模型主要为以前的文献提供了支持，这表明，根据母亲的说法，产后共同育儿是父亲参与的最强预测因子。但是，当将产后关系质量添加到回归分析中时，父母共同抚养并不能预测父亲的参与。此外，调解分析不支持共同父母对关系质量和父亲参与之间的关联的调解作用。这项研究的结果表明，关系质量可能比共同父母关系具有同等或更大的重要性，这是改善父亲在青少年非裔美国人和拉丁裔父母中的参与度的潜在干预点。