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Relations Between Fathers’ Power, Prestige, Acceptance and Involvement and Psychological Adjustment among Croatian Adolescents

The aim of this research was to examine the impact of fathers’ power, prestige, acceptance and involvement on adolescent psychological adjustment. The research was carried out in Zagreb, Croatia among 572 high school students (318 boys and 254 girls). The age of respondents was between 14 and 19 years (mean = 16.18, sd=1.174). Adolescents completed Rohner’s Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (Mother and Father version), Child Personality Assessment Questionnaire, Father Involvement Scale, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Parent's Evaluation of Child’s Conduct, Substance Use Questionnaire, two items assessing the relative power and prestige of fathers versus mothers, and Personal Information Form (Youth and Adult). Data were analysed for adolescent boys and girls separately. In families where fathers were perceived by their children to have the highest power and prestige (versus families where fathers have lesser power and prestige relative to mothers) both adolescent girls and boys tend to perceive fathers to be significantly more loving and accepting, and more involved. The status of fathers power and prestige within the family significantly affects perceptions of maternal acceptance among adolescent girls but not boys. In families where fathers were perceived by their daughters to have the highest power and prestige, mothers were perceived by their daughters as more rejecting. Adolescent girls from families where fathers were perceived to have the highest power and prestige self-report significantly worse psychosocial adjustment – more hostility and aggression, more emotional instability, more negative world-view, and more depressive symptoms. Adolescent boys self-report less negative world-view.

psychosocial adjustment; acceptance; rejection; power-prestige; involvement; father; mother; gender differences; adolescents

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