Table 5.

Hierarchical Regression Analysis for Sociodemographic Variables, Parenting Attitudes, and Infant Gender Predicting Fathers' Relative Involvement on Weekends 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	.07	.16	.04	.11	.05	.18*	.14	.06	.20*	.00	.06	.00	−.06	.13	−.05
M work	.00	.03	.00	−.01	.01	−.11	−.01	.01	−.04	−.01	.01	−.10	.00	.02	.00
Sibs	−.10	.04	−.19*	−.02	.02	−.11	−.03	.02	−.13	−.04	.02	−.18*	−.06	.04	−.18†
R2		.05			.05			.07			.04			.03
F for change in R2		2.29†			2.22†			3.08*			1.83			1.14
Step 2
F auth	−.04	.06	−.05	−.01	.02	−.05	−.07	.03	−.23*	−.00	.03	.00	−.08	.05	−.16
M prot	−.16	.06	−.23*	−.07	.02	−.28**	−.08	.03	−.27**	−.04	.03	−.13	−.01	.05	−.02
Infant gendera	−.04	.09	−.04	.01	.03	.03	−.02	.04	−.04	.01	.04	.03	−.05	.07	−.07
R2		.10			.12			.17			.06			.06
F for change in R2		2.41†			3.30*			2.91*			.63			.96

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.