The Inventory of Father Involvement: A Pilot Study of a New Measure of Father Involvement
Keywords
father involvement, fathering, parenting measures
Abstract
As the study of fathering has matured in recent years, fathering scholars have recognized the need for richer, broader measures of the construct of father involvement (Hawkins & Palkovitz, 1999). In an effort to create a measure sensitive to affective, cognitive, and direct and indirect behavioral components of involvement, 100 items were initially generated. Of these, 43 were selected for the “Inventory of Father Involvement” (IFI). Fathers (N = 723) reported on “how good a job” they were doing on the 43 indicators of father involvement. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses yielded nine relatively distinct first-order factors, indicating a single, global second-order factor of father involvement. The final model confirms a shorter, 26-item version of the IFI that reflects a multi-dimensional concept of father involvement.
Original Publication Citation
Hawkins, A. J., Bradford, K. P., Christiansen, S. L., Palkovitz, R., Day, R. D., & Call, R. A. (2002). The Inventory of Father Involvement: A pilot study of a new measure of father involvement. Journal of Men's Studies, 10(2), 183-196.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Hawkins, Alan J.; Bradford, Kay P.; Palkovitz, Rob; Christiansen, Shawn L.; Day, Randal D.; and Call, Vaughn R. A., "The Inventory of Father Involvement: A Pilot Study of a New Measure of Father Involvement" (2002). Faculty Publications. 4216.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/4216
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2002-03-01
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/7026
Publisher
The Journal of Men's Studies
Language
English
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Family Life
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