abstract: 'Parental involvement in interventions is key to their success. Drawing

  on data from an ongoing book-based parenting intervention aimed at

  increasing knowledge of child development among fathers and mothers of

  infants, we examined parents'' participation and quality of their

  engagement in the first 2 waves of the intervention, when children were

  9 to 12 months old. We also examined the factors that predicted parents''

  level of participation in the intervention. We report 2 sets of

  findings. First, parents participated an average of 2.6 times per week,

  and mothers participated more frequently than fathers. Almost all

  parents reported that they enjoyed reading the books regardless of their

  level of participation, though mothers reported slightly more enjoyment

  than fathers. Second, results of regression tree analyses showed that

  the most important predictor of mothers'' and fathers'' participation in

  the intervention was whether or not their partner was also

  participating. The other important set of predictors was the level of

  resources, hours worked, education, and household income for fathers and

  employment status and income for mothers. Our findings have important

  implications for improving fathers'' and mothers'' participation in

  interventions.'
affiliation: 'McKee, K (Corresponding Author), Univ Maryland, Dept Human Dev \& Quantitat
  Methodol, 3942 Campus Dr,Benjamin Bldg 143,Suite 3304, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  McKee, Kelsey; Cabrera, Natasha; Alonso, Angelica; Turcios, Miguel, Univ Maryland,
  Dept Human Dev \& Quantitat Methodol, 3942 Campus Dr,Benjamin Bldg 143,Suite 3304,
  College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  Reich, Stephanie, Univ Calif Irvine, Sch Educ, Irvine, CA USA.'
author: McKee, Kelsey and Cabrera, Natasha and Alonso, Angelica and Turcios, Miguel
  and Reich, Stephanie
author-email: kmgarcia@umd.edu
author_list:
- family: McKee
  given: Kelsey
- family: Cabrera
  given: Natasha
- family: Alonso
  given: Angelica
- family: Turcios
  given: Miguel
- family: Reich
  given: Stephanie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1037/men0000320
eissn: 1939-151X
files: []
issn: 1524-9220
journal: PSYCHOLOGY OF MEN \& MASCULINITIES
keywords: fathers; intervention; parenting; participation; infants
keywords-plus: 'RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; ENGAGING FATHERS; PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS;

  ENGAGEMENT; PROGRAM; FAMILIES; PARTICIPATION; CHILDREN; BARRIERS; HOME'
language: English
month: JUL
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '82'
orcid-numbers: 'Turcios, Miguel/0000-0002-3658-4357

  Reich, Stephanie/0000-0002-8799-5236

  McKee, Kelsey/0000-0002-1768-6067'
pages: 521-537
papis_id: 9bb8c332254c25dfaa1b2266cd1c27cb
ref: Mckee2021determinantsfathers
times-cited: '9'
title: Determinants of Fathers' and Mothers' Involvement in a Parenting Intervention
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000670607200009
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '22'
web-of-science-categories: Psychology, Social
year: '2021'