introduction: job burnout results from the reaction to the chronic psychological stress and it mainly occurs in care services. it may lead to consequences such as job cost, reduced performance and fatigue. this study aimed to investigate the nursing administrators and chief executive officers job burnout in three areas of depersonalization, fatigue and emotional exhaustion and its relation to s...

Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle- and upper-class families are seeking to educate their children West. The rationale for this kind of social reproduction strategy is acquisition ‘valuable’ cultural symbolic capitals can be advantageous graduate job market both home country internationally. Presenting a case study four middle-class Nigerian fathers, paper reveals behind th...

Predictors of change in fathers' and mothers' perceptions of child caregiving involvement were examined. Middle-class 2-parent families (131 mothers and 98 fathers) with a target school-age child participated. Fathers and mothers completed annual questionnaires for 3 consecutive years. Latent growth curve modeling suggested that fathers were likely to increase their relative contribution to chi...

The association between marital status and health among men has been well documented, but few studies track health trajectories following family structure transitions among unmarried fathers. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study this article examines trajectories of paternal mental health and self-rated health, focusing on transitions into and out of residential relationships wi...

Father-child and mother-child engagements were examined longitudinally in relation to children's language and cognitive development at 24 and 36 months. The study involved a racially/ethnically diverse sample of low-income, resident fathers (and their partners) from the National Early Head Start evaluation study (n=290). Father-child and mother-child engagements were videotaped for 10 min at ho...

OBJECTIVE To compare Hispanic and non-Hispanic White mothers and fathers of children with spina bifida on measures of individual adjustment, parental functioning, and perceived social support. METHOD Mothers (29 Hispanic, 79 non-Hispanic white) and fathers (26 Hispanic, 68 non-Hispanic white) completed questionnaires regarding psychological distress, parental functioning, and perceived social...

We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,679) to examine the impact of men’s past military service on the likelihood that a couple will marry within 5 years of a nonmarital birth. Logistic regression analyses showed that men’s past military service increased marriage odds by 54% for couples with Black fathers even after controlling for potential mediators. But vet...

This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,098) to examine differences in the parenting practices of four types of resident fathers, defined by their biological relationship to a focal child and their marital status with regard to the focal child's mother. Regression results suggest that biological and social (i.e., stepfathers or mothers' cohabiting partner...

Research shows involved fathers during pregnancy contribute to better infant, mother, and father outcomes. Further, expectant fathers, including with lower education, have many unmet needs regarding their confidence skills infant care behaviors (e.g., feeding, changing, soothing an infant). This study’s goal was gain a understanding of behavioral intentions the association these with: in father...