Özet:

Facilitating and hindering behaviors of mothers regarding their spouse's participation in their children are defined as maternal gatekeeping. The aim of this study is to adapt a scale that evaluates maternal gatekeeping behaviors from perceptions of fathers. In this context, the validity and reliability of the Father Form of the Maternal Gatekeeping Scale (MGS) developed by Puhlman and Pasley (2017) to evaluate the encouragement, discouragement and control behaviors to parent perceive from each other was examined. A total of 255 married fathers with at least one child between the ages of 3 and 7 participated in the study. The results showed that MGS-F preserves its original three dimensions structure and has appropriate indexes in terms of validity and reliability. It was found that the encouragement levels perceived by fathers from their spouses were positively related with the father involvement, and the perceived control and discouragement levels were negatively related to the father involvement. However, perceived types of maternal gatekeeping behaviors are associated with some demographic characteristics (such as the number of children, gender), and fathers reported that they perceived traditional sub-categories of maternal gatekeeping the most common. Findings of the current study, which reveals the perceptions of fathers' positive and negative maternal gatekeeping behaviors are important for encouraging father involvement and adaptation in the family system.

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