Citation

Fagan J, Cherson M, Brown C, Vecere E. Fam. Process 2015; 54(4): 581-589.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/famp.12137

PMID

25683345

Abstract

The present study evaluated the effects of mothers' participation in an 8-week coparenting intervention program, Understanding Dad(™) , on mothers' awareness and attitudes regarding how their relationships with fathers influence paternal involvement with children, knowledge of healthy pro-relationship skills, and relationship self-efficacy. Thirty-four mothers were recruited from four sites to participate in a study that used a pretest/posttest one-group design. Over the course of this 8-week program, mothers demonstrated moderate to large gains in each of the outcome measures, after controlling for mothers' educational level. Moreover, there was one significant within-subjects interaction effect for time × location. That is, mothers made significantly greater gains in pro-relationship knowledge in one of the intervention sites. Implications for future research are discussed.

Language: en