Parental Identity and Reflected‐Appraisals: Measurement and Gender Dynamics

By T. Maurer, J. Pleck, Thomas R. Rane. 2001

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Fathers' caregiving and breadwinning: A gender congruence analysis. (2006, background): “Ironically, however, this lack of diversity facilitates comparison between this study and prior ones using these measures, because such convenience samples have been typical (Maurer et al., 2001; Maurer, Pleck, & Rane, 2003).”
Maternal Gate Closing and Gate Opening in Postdivorce Families (2008, background): “Conversely, Maurer et al. (2001) found no relationship between reflected appraisals (what mothers actually thought) and fathers’ caregiving behavior in intact families.”
Integrating Father Involvement in Parenting Research (2012, methodology): “In the symbolic interactionist interpretation of identity, fathering behavior is motivated by men's self-conceptions as individual fathers, assessed by self-report measures including items such as “it's important to me to be a good father” or by procedures in which fathers report their investment in”
Prison, Fathers, and Identity: A Theory of How Incarceration Affects Men’s Paternal Identity (2005, unknown): “Maurer, Pleck, and Rane (2001) point out that the process of receiving and understanding appraisal is a process of interpretation, with the appraised person interpreting the appraisal given.”
Paternal Identity, Maternal Gatekeeping, and Father Involvement. (2005, background): “In particular, fathering identity appears to be influenced heavily by perceptions of maternal appraisals (Maurer et al., 2001).”