Enhancing father involvement of earthquake-affected fathers: a qualitative analysis.

ABSTRACT: This study identifies the factors influencing father involvement in container cities following the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and examines the current state of father involvement from a sociological perspective. Father involvement improves children's cognitive, social and emotional development as well as academic success. However, earthquakes can seriously disturb this. Previous studies have indicated that the father-child relationship transforms after disasters such as earthquakes. This study analyzes, within "father involvement" framework, how father-child relations differs in families forced to set up new life-world in container cities. The analysis was grounded in the phenomenological sociology tradition, which interprets father involvement as a lived sociological phenomen

SUBMITTER: Guloglu MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700030 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature