RT Article
T1 The Role and Impact of Arab Fathers
JF Hawwa
VO 16
IS 1/3
SP 333
OP 361
A1 Ridge, Natasha
A1 Jeon, Soohyun
A1 Chung, Brian Jaewon
A1 Shami, Soha
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1684085411
AB Research over the past twenty years has found that fathers play an important role in their children's development. However, the literature on fatherhood is still limited, particularly in the Arab world. This paper uses data from a mixed-method pilot study of sixty-one Arabs residing in the United Arab Emirates to examine the nature and impact of father involvement in the Arab region. The findings indicate that Arab fathers score highly on the good provider role, but low on responsible paternal engagement, which includes father involvement in the child's education and related activities. We also find that the more positively involved a father has been in his child's life, the higher the child's self-esteem tends to be. In addition, the results show that experiences of father involvement vary according to the gender of the child, socioeconomic status, and nationality. These findings have important implications for understanding the nature of Arab father involvement and serve as a prelude to a larger study of father involvement across the Arab region.
K1 Arab fathers
K1 Arab World
K1 GCC
K1 United Arab Emirates
K1 father involvement
K1 Self-esteem
DO 10.1163/15692086-12341343