Engaged vs. disengaged fathers
Overview
- Influence: Engaged vs. disengaged fathers
- Domain: Home
- Sub-Domain: Family structure
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: While fathers’ mean levels of overall involvement in the education of children tends to be lower than that of mothers, their involvement nonetheless influences their children’s academic achievement just as strongly as the involvement of mothers.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 7
- Number of studies: 353
- Number of students: 9,969,589
- Number of effects: 600
- Effect size: 0.21
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference paper | Salzman | USA | Meta-analysis of studies investigating the effects of father absence on children's cognitive performance | 1987 | Father present vs. father absent | 137 | 9,955,118 | 273 | 0.26 |
| Journal of Marriage and the Family | Amato & Gilbreth | USA | Nonresident Fathers and Children's Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis | 1999 | Fathers presence in family | 52 | 14,471 | 52 | 0.07 |
| Journal of Family Psychology | Amato | USA | Children of Divorce in the 1990s: An Update of the Amato and Keith (1991) Meta-Analysis | 2001 | Resident vs. non resident fathers | 67 | 0 | 177 | 0.29 |
| Early Education and Development | McWayne, Downer, Campos, & Harris | USA | Father involvement during early childhood and its association with children's early learning: A meta-analysis | 2014 | Father involvement | 21 | 0 | 22 | 0.43 |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Kim & Hill | USA | Including Fathers in the Picture: A Meta-Analysis of Parental Involvement and Students' Academic Achievement | 2015 | Father involvement | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0.28 |
| Journal of Family Psychology | Adamsons & Johnson | USA | An updated and expanded meta-analysis of nonresident fathering and child well-being | 2013 | Nonresident fathers on achievement | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0.04 |
| Unpublished Conference Paper | Jeynes | USA | Father Involvement, African Americans, and Reducing the Achievement Gap Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives | 2013 | Fathers vs. non fathers | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0.11 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 353 | 9,969,589 | 600 | 0.21 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |