The Relationship between Maternal Gatekeeping, Paternal Competence, Mothers' Attitudes about the Father Role, and Father Involvement

By J. Fagan, Marina Barnett. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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UNDERSTANDING POSITIVE FATHER-CHILD INTERACTION: CHILDREN’S, FATHERS’, AND MOTHERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS (2010, background): “…as paternal self efficacy (Bonney, Kelley, & Levant, 1999), perceptions of the value and purpose of paternal involvement (Beitel & Parke, 1998; Fagan & Barnett, 2003), and authoritative versus authoritarian discipline strategies (Gaertner, Spinrad, Eisenberg, & Greving, 2007) on father…”
Profiles of Helicopter Parenting, Parental Warmth, and Psychological Control During Emerging Adulthood (2019, background): “This may reflect messages that fathers receive regarding their auxiliary (Schmitz, 2016), incompetent (Fagan & Barnett, 2003), or ambiguous (Castelain-Meunier, 2002) parenting positions compared to mothers.”
Maternal Gate Closing and Gate Opening in Postdivorce Families (2008, background): “In one study of intact and separated families, maternal appraisals of paternal competence—but not maternal attitudes toward the general importance of fathers—were related to gatekeeping and father involvement (Fagan & Barnett, 2003; see McBride & Rane, 1998).”
The Impact of Taking Parental Leave on Fathers’ Participation In Childcare And Relationships With Children: Lessons from Sweden (2008, background): “Research suggests that it is not always easy for women to do this (Fagan & Barnett, 2003).”
Maternal Gatekeeping (2008, background): “Maternal gatekeeping is commonly defined as mothers’ preferences and attempts to inhibit fathers’ participation in family work (Allen & Hawkins, 1999; Fagan & Barnett, 2003).”
How Long Should Parental Leave Be? Attitudes to Gender Equality, Family, and Work as Determinants of Women’s and Men’s Parental Leave in Sweden (2014, background): “Women’s impact on father involvement has been described sometimes as a hindrance when women hold traditional gendered attitudes (Fagan & Barnett, 2003; Kuli & Tsoref, 2010) and sometimes as encouragement and enabling of father involvement (Allen & Hawkins, 1999).”
Paternal Identity, Maternal Gatekeeping, and Father Involvement. (2005, methodology): “This investigation also has the advantage of utilizing a broad conceptualization of father involvement and data from multiple sources, thus overcoming a major limitation of previous research (see for example, Fagan & Barnett, 2003 ).”
The Evolution of Fathering Research in the 21st Century: Persistent Challenges, New Directions (2020, background): “In an early study published not long after the last JMF decade review on fathering, Fagan and Barnett (2003) demonstrated that greater maternal gatekeeping (defined as mothers’ desires to control parental decision-making) was associated with less father involvement in childrearing.”
Prison, Fathers, and Identity: A Theory of How Incarceration Affects Men’s Paternal Identity (2005, unknown): “This restriction of a father’s involvement by the mother is commonly referred to as “maternal gatekeeping” (see Allen & Hawkins, 1999 and Fagan & Barnett, 2003 for further elaboration of maternal gatekeeping).”
Conducting Studies with Fathers: Challenges and Opportunities (2007, background): “…can also act as ‘‘gatekeepers,’’ regulating paternal involvement in research, ‘‘Maternal gatekeeping’’ is a great challenge for researchers who are required to seek consent from mothers to contact fathers and for those interested in collecting observational data on father (Fagan & Barnett, 2003).”