Father-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks

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dc.contributor.advisorMalcolm, Charles
dc.contributor.authorHendricks, Lynn Hendricks
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-07T13:23:29Z
dc.date.available2025-02-07T13:10:54Z
dc.date.available2025-02-07T13:23:29Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractInternational research over the past two decades has advanced knowledge in the study of fathers and the protective role they play in the prevention of adolescent risk behaviours. Studies have often investigated parental relationships and their influence on adolescent risk behaviours but rarely the specific role of the adolescents’ relationships with their fathers or father figures in prevention of risk behaviour. Three main hypotheses were investigated: first, that the theoretically aligned dimensions of relationship quality would be nomogically validated; second, that there would be little significance difference in the dimensions of relationship quality across groupings of father residential status; and third, that the quality of the fatherson relationship is a stronger predictor of risk behaviour than father’s residential status (whether the adolescent lived with the father or not), or whether the “father” is a biological father or not. Three samples of adolescents were included: a fatherresident group (biological fathers reside in the adolescents’ homes) (N = 196); a nonresident group (biological fathers live elsewhere) (N = 72); and a father figure group (no contact with biological father) (N = 58). The school-based sample of 331 participants all resided in a low-income area of Cape Town. Risk behaviours were investigated using the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT). Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk behaviour was assessed on a POSIT sub-scale designed specifically for South Africa, the POSIT HIV/STD Risk iv Subscale.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/19975.2
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Cape
dc.subjectRisk Behaviours
dc.subjectResidential Status
dc.subjectRelationship Quality
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectFather
dc.titleFather-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks
dc.typeThesis

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