The Inventory of Father Involvement: A Pilot Study of a New Measure of Father Involvement

By A. J. Hawkins, Kay P. Bradford, R. Palkovitz, Shawn L. Christiansen, Randal D. Day, V. Call. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Spillover Effect of Parenting on Marital Satisfaction Among Chinese Mothers (2015, background): “The scale was able to distinguish fathers of intact married families with those who were separated or divorced on attentiveness, providing and giving support to mother (Hawkins et al. 2002).”
Fathering in Australia Among Couple Families with Young Children (2011, unknown): “These dimensions of fathering are all important ways in which fathers can and do contribute to families (for example, Day & Lamb 2004; Hawkins et al. 2002; Hawkins & Palkovitz 1999; Schoppe‐Sullivan et al. 2004).”
Father-offspring resemblance predicts paternal investment in humans (2009, methodology): “The mothers were asked about father–child relationships using 10 questions focused on attachment, responsibility and education (adapted from the Inventory of Father Involvement, Hawkins et al. 2002).”
Latino Fathers: The Relationship Among Machismo, Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and Paternal Involvement (2010, methodology): “Additionally, support for the reliability of the IFI has been noted in previous studies (i.e., Cronbach alphas .95 and .97; Bradford et al., 2002; Flouri, 2004).”
Fathering Self-Efficacy, Marital Satisfaction and Father Involvement in Hong Kong (2013, background): “’’ The scale can distinguish fathers of intact married families with those who are separated or divorced based on the scores they give on items involving attentiveness, providing, and giving support to the mother (Hawkins et al. 2002).”
The Father Involvement and Nurturant Fathering Scales: Retrospective Measures for Adolescent and Adult Children (2004, background): “They have provided preliminary validation for a measure of father involvement (Hawkins et al., 2002) from fathers’ viewpoints.”
Empathy and Self-Regulation as Mediators Between Parenting and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family (2011, methodology): “Parental involvement was assessed at Time 1 using an 8item measure of involvement that was taken from the Inventory of Father Involvement (Hawkins et al., 2002).”
“Media Time = Family Time” (2014, methodology): “Parental involvement was assessed using an eight-item measure of behavioral involvement taken from the Inventory of Father Involvement (Hawkins et al., 2002).”