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Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities
Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/126176 Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities Moodley, Michaela Chloe Lesch, Elmien Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Psychology. Fathers and daughters -- South Africa Families -- Social aspects -- South Africa Fatherhood -- South Africa UCTD Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The shift away from the emotionally detached, authoritarian father to the more involved and emotionally nurturing father has resulted in fathers experiencing greater levels of closeness with their children, and are reportedly more satisfied with these relationships. Furthermore, emotionally involved fathers have proven to positively contribute to the holistic development of children. Consequently, closeness is now included in prominent fatherhood models and encouraged in many communities. However, the definition of closeness in parent-adolescent child relationships remains quite opaque. Furthermore, most research has been done in the northern hemisphere on White, middle-class fathers and their relationships with younger children. Further research is, therefore, needed to explore constructions, experiences, and practices of closeness in the father-child relationship in diverse populations and contexts, specifically in the under-researched area of father-adolescent daughter relationships. Against this backdrop, as well as the scarcity of research conducted on fatherhood in low-income South African communities, especially on fathers and adolescent daughters, this study sought to explore closeness between fathers and adolescent daughters living in low-income communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. To investigate this phenomenon, semi-structured, individual interviews were conducted on fifteen family units. Each family unit consisted of an adolescent female aged 15-17, as well as their father/father figure and mother/mother figure. The study is grounded in social constructionism and the purpose of the interviews was to explore the participants construction and experience of closeness, in the father-adolescent daughter relationships. These interviews were analysed according to Braun and Clark’s Thematic Analysis Method. The analysis produced two overarching themes. The first theme highlights that the participants associated father-daughter closeness with daughters’ comfortability to share personal information with fathers, but that most of the daughters in this study did not feel comfortable to do so. The second theme foregrounds the barriers to greater closeness in father-daughter relationships. Mainstream fatherhood constructions seem to underpin these barriers and should, therefore, be challenged in order to facilitate greater closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships. These should also form part of future interventions in the communities of study. AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die skuif weg van die emosioneel gedistansieerde en outoritêre vader na die meer betrokke en emosioneel versorgende vader het daartoe gelei dat vaders meer nabyheid met hul kinders, asook groter tevredenheid met hul vader-kind verhoudings beleef. Navorsing dui ook daarop dat meer emosioneel betrokke vaders positief bydra tot die holistiese ontwikkeling van kinders. Gevolglik word nabyheid nou in prominente vaderskap modelle ingesluit, en word ook aangemoedig in baie gemeenskappe. Die definisie van nabyheid in ouer-adolessente kind verhoudings bly egter vaag. Verder is die meeste studies in hierdie area in die noordelike hemisfeer met Wit, middelklas vaders en hul verhoudings met jonger kinders gedoen. Verdere navorsing is dus nodig om die konstruksies, ervaring en praktyke van nabyheid in vader-kind verhoudings in diverse populasies en kontekste te verken, veral in die onder-bestudeerde area van vader-adolessente dogter verhoudings. Teen hierdie agtergrond, sowel as die skaarsheid aan navorsing oor vaderskap in lae-inkomste Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskappe, spesifiek met betrekking tot vader-adolessente dogter verhoudings, het hierdie studie nabyheid tussen vaders en adolessente dogters in plattelandse, lae-inkomste gemeenskappe in die Wes-Kaap, Suid-Afrika verken. Om hierdie verskynsel te ondersoek, is semi-gestruktureerde, individuele onderhoude met vyftien gesinseenhede gevoer. Elke gesinseenheid het bestaan uit 'n adolessente vrou tussen 15 en 17 jaar, sowel as hul vader/vader figuur en moeder/moeder figuur. Die studie is gegrond op sosiale konstruksionisme en die doel van die onderhoude was om die deelnemers se konstruksie en ervaring van emosionele nabyheid in die vader-adolessente dogter verhoudings te ondersoek. Hierdie onderhoude is ontleed volgens Braun en Clark se tematiese analise metode. Die analise het twee oorhoofse temas opgelewer. Die eerste tema belig dat die deelnemers nabyheid geassosieer het met verhoudingslede se gemaklikheid om persoonlike inligting te deel. Die meeste dogters het egter nie gemaklik gevoel om dit te doen met hul vaders nie. Die tweede tema vestig die aandag op die struikelblokke in groter nabyheid in vader-dogter verhoudings. Dit blyk dat hoofstroom konstruksies van vaders onderliggend aan baie van hierdie struikelblokke is. Hierdie hoofstroom konstruksies sal dus uitgedaag moet word om groter nabyheid tussen vaders en dogters te fasiliteer. Sodanige uitdaging sal ook deel moet vorm van toekomstige vaderskap ingrypings in die betrokke navorsing gemeenskappe. Masters 2022-11-23T19:35:52Z 2023-01-16T12:53:59Z 2022-11-23T19:35:52Z 2023-01-16T12:53:59Z 2022-11 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126176 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 182 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Fathers and daughters -- South Africa Families -- Social aspects -- South Africa Fatherhood -- South Africa UCTD Moodley, Michaela Chloe Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title | Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title_full | Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title_fullStr | Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title_short | Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships in two South African communities |
| title_sort | closeness in father adolescent daughter relationships in two south african communities |
| topic | Fathers and daughters -- South Africa Families -- Social aspects -- South Africa Fatherhood -- South Africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126176 |
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