The purpose of this study is to examine how father’s psychological vari-able of role awareness affects parenting participation. Data were col-lected by the survey in fathers of 363 children in public kindergartens and national/public and private nurseries and analyzed by using multi-ple regression analysis. The results showed that fathers perceiving their role of educating (for cognitive development, social skills, and physical health) and of meeting the needs (needs for health protection, and emotional needs) participated actively in parenting and that those perceiving their role of meeting the needs for food, clothing, and shelter participated passively in parenting. On the basis of these results, strate-gic and practical implications were given to induce fathers to partici-pate more actively in parenting.
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Abstract INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS Research model Operational definition of variables and measuring instrument Data collection and analysis RESULTS Respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics Levels of role awareness and parenting participation Correlation between principal variables Effects of role awareness on parenting participation DISCUSSION CONFLICT OF INTEREST REFERENCES