TY - JOUR
T1 - Affection received from fathers as a predictor of Men's affection with their own sons
T2 - Tests of the modeling and compensation hypotheses
AU - Floyd, Kory
AU - Morman, Mark T.
N1 - Funding Information:
KoryFloyd (Ph.D., University ofArizona, 1998) is assistant professor of human communication at Arizona State University andMark Morman (Ph.D., University ofKansas, 1998) isassistantprofessor ofcommunica-tionstudiesatBaylorUniversity. Thisstudywasconductedaspart oftheFatherhoodRelationsProjectand was partially funded by grants to the first author from Cleveland State University and the American PsychologicalFoundation. Theassistance ofRenée Botta, Kristopher Lucskay,andJosephSheppa is gratefully acknowledged. Addresscorrespondence to thefirst author at Hugh Downs School ofHuman Communication, Arizona State University, PO Box 871205, Tempe AZ 85287-1205. (480) 965-3568.
PY - 2000/12
Y1 - 2000/12
N2 - The present study takes a developmental approach to predicting the amount of affectionate communication fathers give their own sons by examining the amount of affection men received from their own fathers. Two developmental orientations are addressed: the modeling hypothesis, which predicts that positive behavior patterns exhibited by parents will be replicated in their children's own parenting, and the compensation hypothesis, which predicts that negative parenting behaviors are compensated for in children's parenting of their own children. We combined these approaches to advance a hybrid prediction that, when applied to affectionate communication, calls for a curvilinear relationship between the affection men received from their own fathers and the affection they give their own sons. Five hundred six men who were fathers of at least one son participated in the current study, and the results provided direct support for a combined modeling-compensation hypothesis.
AB - The present study takes a developmental approach to predicting the amount of affectionate communication fathers give their own sons by examining the amount of affection men received from their own fathers. Two developmental orientations are addressed: the modeling hypothesis, which predicts that positive behavior patterns exhibited by parents will be replicated in their children's own parenting, and the compensation hypothesis, which predicts that negative parenting behaviors are compensated for in children's parenting of their own children. We combined these approaches to advance a hybrid prediction that, when applied to affectionate communication, calls for a curvilinear relationship between the affection men received from their own fathers and the affection they give their own sons. Five hundred six men who were fathers of at least one son participated in the current study, and the results provided direct support for a combined modeling-compensation hypothesis.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0040191728&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0040191728&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03637750009376516
DO - 10.1080/03637750009376516
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040191728
SN - 0363-7751
VL - 67
SP - 347
EP - 361
JO - Communication Monographs
JF - Communication Monographs
IS - 4
ER -