The Reworking of Setbacks and Missteps as a Pathway to Generativity for Low-Income Fathers

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dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.authorAgboli, Sarah Bongen_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.accessioned2007-02-01T20:23:57Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:23:57Z
dc.date.issued2006-12-11en_US
dc.description.abstractFor fathers who have experienced significant setbacks and missteps over their life course, attainment of normative fathering roles can be difficult. The aim of the current study was to provide insight into how men, who had not fulfilled father expectations, reworked father roles in order to be an active and generative presence in their children's lives. A secondary analysis of 28 life history interviews was conducted. The researcher examined how a father's setbacks and missteps influenced his relationship with his children and how he incorporated these events into his narrative identity and translated them into parental generativity. The strategies used to overcome the barriers created by setbacks and missteps were examined. Of particular interest were how the fathers communicated the negative aspects of their identities to their children, the narrative sequencing used, and how they reworked fatherhood roles and mainstream social norms as a means to parental generativity.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4225
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Mental Healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Public Healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGenerativityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFatheren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLow-Incomeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFatherhooden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReworken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSetbacksen_US
dc.titleThe Reworking of Setbacks and Missteps as a Pathway to Generativity for Low-Income Fathersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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