Reported father involvement and indicators of subjective well-being in transition to adulthood

Abstract

This study examined the possibility of predicting the indicators of adolescents’ subjective well-being (satisfaction with life and frequency of positive and negative experiencing) based on the reported father involvement, which was the reason for verifying the factor structure and examine the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Reported Father Involvement Scale (R-FIS) in adolescents. The research sample consisted of 400 students (290 girls), aged 15 to 18 years (M = 16.51, SD = 1.06). Regarding the Slovak version of the R-FIS, the results of the reliability (McDonald’s ω) estimation were acceptable. The CFA (using polychoric correlations, DWLS method) results supported the 1-factor structure of the scale, which was used in further analyses. The results of the analyses confirmed our expectations, since the father involvement, when controlling for the intervening variables (gender, age, and cohabitation with the father), proved to be one of the significant predictors of subjective well-being indicators.