TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and validation of a father involvement in health measure
AU - Garfield, Craig F.
AU - Fisher, Sheehan D.
AU - Barretto, David
AU - Rutsohn, Joshua
AU - Isacco, Anthony
N1 - Funding Information:
All phases of this research were supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant K23HD060664 to Craig F. Garfield from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Development. This funding source had no involvement in the study design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; in the writing of this report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Father involvement has been associated with positive social, emotional, psychological, developmental, and health outcomes in a child. However, tools for measuring father involvement have not kept pace with the expanding understanding of the roles of fathers, and in the area of child health, are blunt. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-report measure of father involvement in preschooler's health, the Father Involvement in Health-Preschool (FIH-PS). In Phase 1 (item generation), 47 items were developed based on previous qualitative work and vetted through cognitive interviews with 21 fathers of children ages 3-5 years (preschool). In Phase 2 (psychometric validation), 560 fathers of 3- to 5-year-olds (n = 392 resident, n = 168 nonresident) completed the FIH-PS item bank. Participants were predominantly White (64%), had private health insurance (53%), had a mean age of 33 years, and half of them were married. Item response theory was used to determine measurement scoring. The FIH-PS Scale was reduced from a 47-item bank to a total of 20 items supporting a 4-factor scale made up of Acute Illness, General Well-Being, Emotional Health, and Role Modeling. Following exploratory (n = 280) and confirmatory factor (n = 280) analyses, the scale followed a bifactor structure, was internally consistent (Cronbach's α = .953), and discriminated among fathers with lower involvement. A sum-to-T score crosswalk table was produced to standardize the scores along a normal distribution (M = 50, SD = 10, range = 10.8 -71.3). Future research and clinical applications of the FIH-PS are discussed.
AB - Father involvement has been associated with positive social, emotional, psychological, developmental, and health outcomes in a child. However, tools for measuring father involvement have not kept pace with the expanding understanding of the roles of fathers, and in the area of child health, are blunt. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-report measure of father involvement in preschooler's health, the Father Involvement in Health-Preschool (FIH-PS). In Phase 1 (item generation), 47 items were developed based on previous qualitative work and vetted through cognitive interviews with 21 fathers of children ages 3-5 years (preschool). In Phase 2 (psychometric validation), 560 fathers of 3- to 5-year-olds (n = 392 resident, n = 168 nonresident) completed the FIH-PS item bank. Participants were predominantly White (64%), had private health insurance (53%), had a mean age of 33 years, and half of them were married. Item response theory was used to determine measurement scoring. The FIH-PS Scale was reduced from a 47-item bank to a total of 20 items supporting a 4-factor scale made up of Acute Illness, General Well-Being, Emotional Health, and Role Modeling. Following exploratory (n = 280) and confirmatory factor (n = 280) analyses, the scale followed a bifactor structure, was internally consistent (Cronbach's α = .953), and discriminated among fathers with lower involvement. A sum-to-T score crosswalk table was produced to standardize the scores along a normal distribution (M = 50, SD = 10, range = 10.8 -71.3). Future research and clinical applications of the FIH-PS are discussed.
KW - Father
KW - Father involvement
KW - Preschoolers
KW - Scale development
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U2 - 10.1037/men0000144
DO - 10.1037/men0000144
M3 - Article
C2 - 30828268
AN - SCOPUS:85040617520
VL - 20
SP - 148
EP - 160
JO - Psychology of Men and Masculinity
JF - Psychology of Men and Masculinity
SN - 1524-9220
IS - 1
ER -