He Said, She Said: Comparing Mother and Father Reports of Father Involvement

By Kelly S. Mikelson. 2008

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development (2010, background): “Other methodological improvements relate to better measurement of family characteristics using multiple family informants and trained observers of family interactions (e.g., Lorenz, Melby, Conger, & Xu, 2007; Mikelson, 2008).”
Mindful Parenting and Care Involvement of Fathers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities (2010, background): “Parents have been found to disagree in their reports about each others’ involvement in child care ( Mikelson 2008 ) and thus multiple perspectives are required.”
A Matter of Time: Father Involvement and Child Cognitive Outcomes (2018, background): “Their findings indicate that mothers report less paternal involvement than do fathers, although the correlations between maternal and paternal reports are high (Charles et al., 2018; Coley & Morris, 2002; Hernandez & Coley, 2007; Mikelson, 2008).”
Fathering in Australia Among Couple Families with Young Children (2011, unknown): “These scholars, and many others (for example, Bailey 1994; Bronte‐Tinkew, Carrano & Guzman 2006; Doherty, Kouneski & Erickson 1998; Marsiglio et al. 2000; Mikelson 2008; Parke 2000; Pleck 1997; Wood & Repetti 2004) highlight, in different ways, the factors that might influence fathering.”