Paternal Engagement of Fathers of Young Children in Kupang

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

paternal engagement, young children, Kupang

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the involvement of fathers in paternal engagement dimension in Kupang city. Paternal engagement is a form of direct interaction between child and father shown by the way father take care of his child or nurturing child or a variety of other activities. The study design of this study was descriptive quantitative research, utilized a questionnaire to gather data. Accidental sampling used in recruiting participants. 150 fathers of children aged 0-8 years participated in the study. Research analysis used was descriptive statistics with the help of the Microsoft Office Excel. The results showed that around a third of participants have high level of paternal engagement. Patterns discovered from cross tabulation with several demographic factors also discussed in this article. The result from this study should be confirmed with further research in order to understand the process of engagement in father-child's interaction especially in Kupang city and other rural areas in Indonesia. Improved engagement will help in avoiding child violence and will also contribute in child's development.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anamaria Vinansia Sengga
AU  - Engelikus Nama Koten
AU  - Beatriks Novianti Kiling-Bunga
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Paternal Engagement of Fathers of Young Children in Kupang
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 487
EP  - 493
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.85
DO  - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.85
ID  - VinansiaSengga2016/11
ER  -