To assess the hypotheses relating fathering and adolescent adjustment we started with an unconstrained model for each reporter of adolescent outcomes (i.e., adolescent-report, parent-report, teacher-report), and then imposed constraints on prediction paths across outcomes and groups. This enabled our final models for each fathering dimension to be relatively parsimonious, despite the presence of six adolescent outcomes across four groups. Tables 1–5 provide coefficients and fit indices from the final models for each fathering dimension. Control variables are listed first, followed by the fathering variable, with the interactions with fathering below. Indices of model fit are presented at the bottom of the table. The following results involve the associations between fathering and adolescent outcomes, having partialled out the effects of SES, marital quality, adolescent gender, and mothering.
