Çocukluk ve Ergenlik Döneminde Babayla Paylaşılan Etkinlikler: Geriye Dönük Bir Çalışma

Involvement of father to their children’s life, being interaction with children by fathers directly is very important for child development. It is established that fathers contribute to child development in all aspects (emotional, cognitive etc.), but studies regarding fathers are still insufficient in comparison to studies regarding mothers. However, increasing of studies regarding fathers in recent years provides to have more information about fathers. This study also aims to present shared activities with fathers of university students in the past. Thus what individuals aged 18 and older shares with their fathers, in which area of children’s life fathers involve is investigated. Accordingly 71 university student were asked to report their shared activities with their fathers for 0-12 and 12-18 age range through semi-structured form. After removing data of students whose parents were decedent, divorced or estranged, content analysis is made with 58 data. Among shared activities with parents, only shared activities with fathers are presented in this study. According to the results, some participants reported that they have never shared activities with their father, some participants reported one or more than one shared activities. Results of this study is examined within the scope of relevant literature.