- Title
- Absent fathers: psychological and socio-economic implications for black children and directions for future research
- Creator
- Magqamfana, Simnikiwe H
- Creator
- Bazana, Sandiso
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/163443
- Identifier
- vital:41038
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2020.1744299
- Description
- This study investigated fathers’ absence influences on the self-perceptions of South African young adults. Informants were five black university students (two females, three males; age range 20 to 28 years). They responded to semi-structured face-to-face interviews on self-perceptions from having matured in the absence of their biological fathers. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that the informants consider the father-absence when they grapple with material well-being shortage. Participants had mixed perceptions about the psychosocial effects on them from father-absence, with some believing to be thriving despite a history of father-absence. Overall, the findings suggest a need for caution in pathologising young adults with a history of father-absence as necessarily deprived.
- Format
- 6 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Psychology in Africa
- Relation
- Magqamfana, S. and Bazana, S., 2020. Absent fathers: Psychological and socio-economic implications for black children and directions for future research. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30(2), pp.169-173.
- Relation
- Journal of Psychology in Africa volume 30 number 2 169 173 May 2020 1815-5626
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