Concurrent Sessions 5 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

214-01: A Mobile Health App For Latino Fathers: Preliminary Results From an Exploratory Study
Matthew Rodriguez, G. Hurtado Choque, S. Alvarez de Davila, A. Peralta, J. Monardez Popelka, A. Baltaci, A. Channell Doig, M. Reicks

214-02: Work to Family Conflict and Family to Work Conflict: The Bidirectional Association Between Job Demands and Paternal Involvement Between Single-Income and Dual-Income Families
K. Ko, W. Hwang, Y. Kang

214-03: Fathers' Physically Performative Behaviors During Shared Book Reading
Laura Cutler

Discussant: Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan
Moderator: Sonia Molloy
Chair: Laura Cutler

Summary
The extant literature regarding father involvement in families indicates that fathers are important contributors to children's positive development. In addition to exploring the more obvious ways in which fathers engage in family life, a subset of research examining fathering practices has addressed the more nuanced, unspoken roles fathers perform in families. These "negative spaces" include the everyday family activities that consume considerable time, energy, and attention. This symposium presents research that investigates several examples of the negative spaces fathers participate in as members of families €”including the ways in which fathers think about and influence their children's dietary habits, how the dual roles of both employees and fathers bidirectionally influence their participation in both realms, and how fathers' patterns of behavior related to the sharing of early literacy activities in families have potential to influence the quality of the relationship they have with their children.

Objectives
-- To identify various ways in which fathers engage in the "negative spaces" of fatherhood.
-- To analyze the numerous roles fathers perform in the context of families using various family-oriented theoretical perspectives.
-- To identify the implications for research, policy, and practice of the three papers submitted as part of this symposium.

Subject Codes: fatherhood, family processes, parent-child relationships
Population Codes: non-clinical practitioners, educators, Family Scientists
Method and Approach Codes: multilevel modeling, mediation/indirect effects models, actor-partner interdependence model (APIM)