Table 4.

Hierarchical Regression Analysis for Sociodemographic Variables, Parenting Attitudes, and Infant Gender Predicting Fathers' Relative Involvement on Weekdays at Time 1 (N = 132)

	Caregiving			Playing			Teaching			AM Soothing			PM Soothing
	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Step 1
F work	.06	.15	.03	.06	.05	.11	.20	.16	.11	.22	.19	.11	.07	.12	.06
M work	.05	.02	.18*	.02	.01	.19*	.09	.03	.29**	.04	.03	.12	.03	.02	.15
Sibs	−.09	.04	−.19*	−.03	.01	−.18*	−.04	.05	−.07	−.09	.06	−.15	−.05	.04	−.15
R2		.08			.08			.08			.05			.04
F for change in R2		3.55*			3.56*			3.45*			2.31†			1.22
Step 2
F auth	−.15	.06	−.21*	−.03	.02	−.16†	−.27	.07	−.34**	−.11	.08	−.13	−.15	.05	−.28**
M prot	−.05	.06	−.07	.01	.02	.03	−.03	.07	−.04	−.01	.08	.02	.06	.05	.11
Infant gendera	−.13	.08	−.13	−.04	.03	−.12	−.04	.09	−.03	−.19	.11	−.16†	−.10	.07	−.14
R2		.14			.11			.18			.09			.13
F for change in R2		2.83*			1.60			3.07*			1.54			3.61*

Note: All variables were centered at their means. F = father; M = mother; work = weekly work hours; Sibs = number of children in family; auth = authoritarian attitudes; prot = protective attitudes.

^aInfant gender: 0 = boys, 1 = girls.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.