THE EFFECT OF LIMITED FATHER ABSENCE ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

In an earlier study it was shown that the effects of father or. children's cognitive performances varies with family size and sibling composition. The present paper examined the efects of father night-shift work on the quantitative performances of 100 females. The results showed that children under the age of 9 were deleteriously affected. It followed that night-shift work can be considered as a point on a father presence-absence continuum. In an earlier paper the present authors contrasted the effects of father or presence on families of varying sibling composition (SuttonSmith, Rosenberg, & Landy 1968). It was found that the effects of father varied with the size of the family and the sibling composition. While contrasts were made between the lengths of the fathers' absences and the children's ages at the time they were absent, no further examination of the character of that absence was presented. In the study that follows, the absence variable is further explored through an analysis of the effects of father shift work on children's performances. It is proposed that, when a man works on the night shift for long periods of time, his children will manifest behavioral patterns similar to those discovered in families where the father has been totally absent for a number of years, but to a lesser degree, since limited father is expected to have a less profound effect. The dependent variable in this, as in the previous study, was performance on a college-entrance test, and the prediction derived from that previ

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