ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociology of Families
ENHANCING FATHER INVOLVEMENT OF EARTHQUAKE-AFFECTED FATHERS: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
Provisionally accepted
Mehmet Fatih GÜLOĞLU1*
Yusuf ADIGÜZEL2- 1Kilis 7 Aralik Universitesi, Kilis, Türkiye
- 2Anadolu Universitesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye
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This study identifies the factors influencing father involvement in container cities following the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and examines the current state of father involvement from a sociological perspective. Father involvement improves children's cognitive, social and emotional development as well as academic success. However, earthquakes can seriously disturb this. Previous studies have indicated that the father-child relationship transforms after disasters such as earthquakes. This study analyzes, within "father involvement" framework, how father-child relations differs in families forced to set up new life-world in container cities. The analysis was grounded in the phenomenological sociology tradition, which interprets father involvement as a lived sociological phenomenon embedded in everyday experiences. The study utilizes Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Data collected from 23 earthquake-affected fathers (N=23), using a semi-structured interview, a purposive sampling technique, and analyzed using MAXQDA. The factors affecting father involvement were thematized as follows: the child's social and psychological well-being, changes in emotional state, economic deterioration; search for meaning of life, and transformations in relationships with the spouse and the surrounding environment. Father involvement is categorized into three dimensions: responsibility, interaction, and communication. Father involvement is context-dependent, and the factors influencing it differ post-earthquake compared with the existing literature. The earthquake motivated fathers to prioritize their children, highlighting the importance of father involvement.
Keywords: Children, Container City, earthquake, Father, Father involvement, Phenomenology
Received: 01 Jul 2025; Accepted: 10 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Mehmet Fatih GÜLOĞLU, mfguloglu@gmail.com
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