Narratives of Human Agency Among Low Income Incarcerated Fathers

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dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.authorFang, Jennifer Jingen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFamily Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-10T11:17:26Z
dc.date.available2012-10-10T11:17:26Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractPrior literature has focused on studying low income or incarcerated fathers from a deficit perspective. For example, there is ample evidence showing that high risk behaviors are associated with children who have non-custodial fathers and about mothers' perspectives on father absence. However, there is still a lack of literature about how these fathers experience agency to take control and make change in their lives in spite of the barriers they face. I conduct a secondary analysis of life history interviews of 40 fathers in a work release program. The theoretical framework that guides this study is narrative inquiry, using sensitizing concepts from McAdams' (2001) four themes of agency: self mastery, status/victory, achievement/responsibility, and empowerment. Out of McAdams' four themes, self mastery and achievement/responsibility were the most prominent themes of agency. Additional emergent themes of agency are found in fathers' life history narratives.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13005
dc.subject.pqcontrolledIndividual & family studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAgencyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledefficacyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFatheren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIncarcerateden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednarrativeen_US
dc.titleNarratives of Human Agency Among Low Income Incarcerated Fathersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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