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AFONSECA, Sofia; MARTINS, Alda  e  PIRES, Vanessa. Influence of the personality of the father's participation in the care of the baby. Psicol inf. [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.15, pp.13-38. ISSN 1415-8809.

The father's role in the childcare is changing since the last years and they are turning more participative and active. However, some fathers don't share the childcare and in the most cases the mother is the principal responsible for that. One of the factors that may explain the participation of the father is the personality traces. Accordingly, to understand how the personality can influence the participation of the father in the baby's care it was developed five questions related to childcare and it was used the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire- -R48 to measure the personality of the fathers. These questionnaires were completed by 52 volunteers with ages between 20 and 53 years old. The results showed that neuroticism/stability, extroversion/introversion, and Psychoticism/Superego appear to be an influence in the childcare. In the results, it was possible to verify a positive correlation between neuroticism and to go to the prenatal appointments (r = - 0,277; p = 0,047); extraversion and to share concerning and feelings (r = 0,348; p = 0,01); and psychoticism and confidence in giving childcare (r = 0,290; p = 0,037). In summary, the personality has some impact in the father's childcare but it is not the principal influence, staying for understand the others variables that take part in this process.

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