Child Health Nurs Res.  2015 Apr;21(2):91-97. 10.4094/chnr.2015.21.2.91.

Content Analysis of Parenting Awareness of Fathers with Young Children

• Park SJ
• Ko GY
• Choi EY

• KMID: 2271207
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4094/chnr.2015.21.2.91

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of fathers about early childhood parenting.
METHODS
Selected fathers of children in early childhood were interviewed, and an open-ended questionnaire was utilized to identify the fathers' awareness of the meaning of parenting, priority for parenting, opinions on paternal roles as a child raiser, parenting difficulties, and what education they wanted to receive as fathers. After their statements were collected, a content analysis was done.
RESULTS
Results of the content analysis showed there were 45 significant statements, which were classified into 17 categories. The fathers saw the meaning of parenting as being in five different domains: social, cognitive, emotional, physical and environmental. As for paternal roles, they thought that a fathers should serve as emotional supporters. The parenting difficulties that they faced were attributed to time constraints.
CONCLUSION
For fathers, development of parent education programs that deal with early childhood parenting knowledge, communication methods and how to play with children according to their developmental stages are required, and qualitative research should be implemented to keep track of the process of changes in parenting characteristics.

Keyword

Parenting; Awareness; Fathers

MeSH Terms

Child*
Education
Fathers*
Humans
Parenting*
Parents*
Qualitative Research
Surveys and Questionnaires