This study was designed to
examine the associations of biological father and social father involvement
during childhood with African American young men's development and engagement
in risk behaviors.
With a sample of 505 young men living in the rural South of
the United States, a dual mediation model was tested in which retrospective
reports of involvement from biological fathers and social fathers were linked
to young men's substance misuse and multiple sexual partnerships through men's
relational schemas and future expectations.
Results from structural equation
modeling indicated that levels of involvement from biological fathers and
social fathers predicted young men's relational schemas; only biological
fathers' involvement predicted future expectations.
In turn, future
expectations predicted levels of substance misuse, and negative relational
schemas predicted multiple sexual partnerships. Biological fathers' involvement
evinced significant indirect associations with young men's substance misuse and
multiple sexual partnerships through both schemas and expectations; social
fathers' involvement exhibited an indirect association with multiple sexual
partnerships through relational schemas.
Findings highlight the unique
influences of biological fathers and social fathers on multiple domains of
African American young men's psychosocial development that subsequently render
young men more or less likely to engage in risk behaviors.
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- 1Center for Family Research, University of Georgia (http://www.cfr.uga.edu/), 1095 College Station Road, Athens, GA, 30605, USA. awbarton@uga.edu.
- 2Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, 1095 College Station Road, Athens, GA, 30605, USA.
- 3Human Development and Family Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
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