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The Relationship Between Fathers’ Commuter Employment and Their Involvement in Childrearing: The Sequential Mediating Roles of Coparenting and Maternal Gatekeeping

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alireza pezhman 1
mahdi khanjani 2

1 PhD Student in Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran.

2 Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University.

https://doi.org/10.22054/ethics.2026.94927.1642
Ministerial Ethics Committee
This study examines the relationship between fathers’ rotational (fly-in/fly-out) employment and mothers’ perceptions of paternal involvement in parenting, focusing on the sequential mediating roles of coparenting and maternal gatekeeping. Rotational employment entails recurrent absences, intensive work schedules, and alternating periods of paternal presence and absence, which may disrupt parental coordination and family routines. Diminished coparenting quality may, in turn, increase maternal controlling and discouraging gatekeeping behaviors, thereby limiting fathers’ involvement in childrearing. The study adopts a nonexperimental, cross-sectional, comparative-correlational design. Participants will be 240 married mothers living in Bandar Abbas, each with at least one child under 18 years old; 120 will have rotationally employed husbands and 120 will have non-rotationally employed husbands. Participants will be selected through purposive and stratified sampling. Data will be collected using a demographic questionnaire, the Montreal Father Involvement Questionnaire, the Coparenting Relationship Scale, and the Maternal Gatekeeping Questionnaire. Independent-samples t tests, PLS structural equation modeling, bootstrapped sequential mediation, and multigroup analysis will be used to test the proposed model and group differences.

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