LONGITUDE STUDY OF CONSTRUCTIVE FATHERHOOD STRATEGIES DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article represents the definition, characteristics and theoretical approaches and psychological basis to constructive fatherhood strategies development. The specifics of the constructive fatherhood strategies development are analyzed in the connection with the life experience and family conditions of the man from an early age. The paper features such components of fatherhood strategies as gender role acceptance, characteristics of the spheres of life goals and sense-bearing and that of personality maturity. It provides the results of a 12-year longitudinal study of the psychological training of responsible fatherhood. The article also represents an analysis of immediate and delayed (about ten years after the training) results of psychological courses for men with no children at the moment of the training. The conclusion is that responsible fatherhood courses for male adolescents have a positive longtime (10 years +) effects.

Keywords

• parenting
• fatherhood
• masculinuty
• fatherhood strategies
• constructive fatherhood strategies development