Becoming a Father: A Qualitative Research on the Journey to Fatherhood
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F24%3A10471377" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/24:10471377 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6_gRmGf78_" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6_gRmGf78_</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/hpr/176082" target="_blank" >10.5114/hpr/176082</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Becoming a Father: A Qualitative Research on the Journey to Fatherhood
Original language description
BackgroundThe transition to fatherhood represents one of the most significant changes in a man's life that brings many challenges. Despite the great importance of this period, there does not exist much empirical data on it with only a small amount of psychological research on fatherhood available in the Czech Republic; this topic is also rather marginalized abroad. This qualitative study aims to explore men's unique experiences with the process of becoming a father and to understand how paternal identity is shaped.Participants and procedureFour men who had recently become fathers participated in the research. A semi-structured interview was conducted with each of them.ResultsUsing the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, an in-depth analysis of the data identified five significant categories that emerge during the transition to fatherhood: responsibility and commitment to the child, father identity formation, fatherhood and motherhood, changes in the partner relationship and coping with the father role.ConclusionsResearch suggests that the process of becoming a father is a long-term dynamic process, in which father identity is shaped and consolidated through a variety of situations and experiences. Within this process, paternal identity is also shaped through repeated comparisons and definitions of the role of the mother. Process of becoming a father involves developmental, identity, personality, partnership and family aspects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Health Psychology Report
ISSN
2353-4184
e-ISSN
2353-5571
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Neuveden
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
001194364400006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85190881772