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Savard, Shirley-Ann. "Parcours d'engagement de figures paternelles alternatives auprès d'enfants âgés de 0 à 5 ans : perception et vécu d'hommes et d'intervenantes." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26306/26306.pdf.
Full textLuca, Daniela. "Avoir, devenir, être père : approche psychanalytique de la sexualité masculine et de la paternité dans les relations précoces père-enfant." Paris 7, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA070068.
Full textThe main aim of this research is to enlight the psychopathology of the parenthood during the first months after the baby birth, and especially to outline the specificity of the neurotic andpsychotic states ofthe fathers, that is to be so different by the mothers psychopathology. We have presented, in the first part of the research, a review ofthe main theories and works on the masculinity and ofthe fatherhood, and we pay attention on the primary relationships father-baby. We continued with a description of the father psychopathology end also the fatherhood depression, as they are found in the actual and classical theory and clinic. Finally, we presented the methodology of the research and the clinical cases, the discussions around the cases and the conclusions/prospections of our theme
Bouchart-Godard, Anne. "Ruptures et discordances entre sexualité infantile et exigences culturelles de paternité : psychopathologies de la paternité." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA070134.
Full textThe intra psychic crisis opened by the materialisation of fatherhood requests the capacity to figure the new situation, its obects, roles, functions inside the primary triade, questions necessary articulations. Infantile sexuality demands, protecting life narcissism through psychic bisexuality, and cultural impulses for delimited and compelling parenthood produ ces break points, discordances, splitting and desintrication of the instincts maternal register is a necessary interactive agent between infans and language, feeding preconscient. Integrative functions of the reptures by rituals are pointed out in two cultures : is it a disparition of ritualisation in contemporary france, or is it an internal symbolisation? modicalised birth giving seems to condense the double ritual of puberty and birth along a sadomasochist organisation where the obstetrician is symbolising an omnipotent father. But the initiatic road for a son to become a father is reduced to a poor imagery. The negative psychic work about being and having a child may provoke melancolic desease and drive to becoming father the most sublimated libidinal motion. To be able to draw many father's figures, it is necessary to liberate maternal representations from exclusive sensible and not to fear thinking specific paternal body relations
Labrell, Florence. "Contributions paternelles au développement cognitif de l'enfant dans la deuxième année." Paris 5, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA05H062.
Full textThis dissertation deals with the paternal "pontage" ("bridge"), a theoretical hypothesis about the specificity of the role of the father in the cognitive development of the toddler. The father is expected to widen maternal experiences by proposing risked and destabilizing stimulations. The father also encourages more than the mother does the autonomous functioning of the toddler, especially in problem-solving situation. The first research, which concerns 40 father (or mother)-16 month -olds dyads in a free play situation with polyvalent objects, showed that the father performs more "non conventional" games than the mother, who is more didactic when demonstrating the canonical use of those objects. The father also the child more than the mother. The second research, which concerns 62 father (or mother)-18 month-olds dyads in a solving situation involving fitting fames, showed that the father makes more requests to the toddler for finding the solution than the mother. While the child tries to solve the problem, the father gives more indirect instructions, which do not allow an immediate resolution, so, the father encourages more an autononmous functionning of the toddler
Hamad, Nazir. "Complexe d'Oedipe, roman familial et question des origines : étude psychologique et psychanalytique à partir d'un échantillon de familles d'accueil et de jeunes placés." Paris 10, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA100037.
Full textBy placing children in foster families, social services endeavour to provide them with a prosthesis enabling them to follow the path of all children leading to their separation from their parents and the assumption of their own subjective history. The frequently disappointing results of social work in this field are not to be attributed to a lack of available means but rather to the intrication of the problematical psychological structures of both the children and the foster families. These children remain caught in an imaginary structure and tend to model their love for their foster parents on their unconscious memory of their attachment to their first parental objects. It is this attachment which prevents them from giving their imaginary parents up as lost and thus from finding a symbolical solution to the question of their origins. On the other hand, the very fact of applying to be foster parents, seems to indicate the problem of the imaginary child within the specific terms of an acute oedipal situation which transpires in a phallic demand on the part of the wife with the female role being held by the husband. These hypotheses have been confirmed by the t. A. T. And the non directive interviews conducted with a sample of foster children and parents
Bélanger, Bianca. "Motivation à être père : antécédents prénataux et lien avec l'expérience des pères d'un nourrisson." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66700.
Full textThe growing social recognition of fathers’ contributions children’s development raises interest in better understanding what fosters a more positive paternal experience and greater involvement. This study examines how men's autonomous and controlled motivations to become fathers and those for engaging in childcare tasks can help explain their involvement in childcare tasks and their parental satisfaction. Fathers-to-be (n = 229) completed questionnaires during the third trimester of their partner's pregnancy and two months after the birth of their child. Results suggest that their partner's support of the satisfaction of their three basic psychological needs (3BPN) accounts for fathers’ higher perceived parental efficacy. Together, these two factors account for fathers’ more autonomous motivations for engaging in childcare tasks, which in turn help explain their involvement in childcare tasks and their parental satisfaction. More controlled motivations for engaging in childcare tasks account for less involvement in childcare tasks. Autonomous and controlled motivations to become a father, assessed during pregnancy, are moderately associated with motivations for engaging in childcare tasks 2 months after birth, thus indirectly contributing to fathers’ involvement in childcare tasks and parental satisfaction. However, both autonomous and controlled motivations to become a father contribute directly to explaining fathers’ parental satisfaction. In sum, the reasons why a man becomes a father and participates in childcare,as well as his perception that his partner supports the satisfaction of his 3BPN help understand his involvement with his child after birth and his satisfaction with his parenting experience. The results highlight the need for further research on men's motivations and their experience of fatherhood.
Tremblay, Sandra. "Engagement du père lors de la transition à devenir parent : rôle des cognitions paternelles et maternelles." Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26755/26755.pdf.
Full textPaquette, Simon. "« Être parent » : un aperçu des différentes motivations des pères et des mères envers leurs rôles et leurs tâches parentaux." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28058.
Full textTremblay, Laurie. "Expérience de placement d'adolescents vivant en famille d'accueil." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24178/24178.pdf.
Full textSt-Pierre, Audrey. "Attachement des enfants en famille d'accueil : contribution de la santé mentale et de la sensibilité interactive du parent d'accueil ainsi que des caractéristiques du placement." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27264.
Full textTounga, Jacques. "Le rôle du père dans le cadre de la dynamique parentale : son influence dans le développement socio-personnel de l'enfant gabonais : cas de l'enfant mbédé." Toulouse 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006TOU20028.
Full textThis study presents the parental systems' evolution to Gabon, consequence of deep socials transformations. The father has became the first responsible for the child to the detriment of the maternal uncle, guarantor of the ancestral authority. Our purpose was to grasp the repartition and the specificity of father's, mother's and maternal uncle's roles beside the mbédé child. Under the parental authority, the child weaves a series of socio-affective relationships and starting from here it defines its autonomy, identifies, socializes and builds him self. The study was lead next to then families (each in turn consisting of a father, a mother, a maternal uncle and a boy) appertaining of a fortunate environment. The explicative variable: the parental dynamics is measured whit a semi-directive questionnaire and have five dimensions. Those are: the socio-affective relationships, the authority, the care, the education and the parental roles. The variable to explain, the socio-personal development of the child, evaluated with a questionnaire and a non filmed observation, have four dimensions: the socio-affective relationships, the authority, the parental roles and the identification. The results present a parental dynamics very obvious beside the child, with a father who implicate him self progressively, a mother still present and a maternal uncle who is less present beside the child
Filhol, Emmanuel. "La Communication psychotique et la question du père : récit et folie : pour une approche de la singularité psychotique à partir de la production orale et écrite d'enfants et d'adolescents d'un hopital de jour." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30015.
Full textThis is an attempt to demonstrate through the oral and written utterances of children and adolescents in a mental day-hospital and focusing the father question how the singular experience of invanity in its disturbing aspect spreads out across the field of discursive reasoning. The theoretical approach which is of an interdisciplinary nature (it involves communication theories, utterance linguistics, pragmatics, the psychoanalytical viewpoint, freud and lacan, forays into literature with modernity texts and into the world of myths with greek tragedy) allows to keep up-to-date records of the stages of division and tension characterizing the functioning of the producer of psychotical utterances. The psychotic narrator is not entirely alienated from the other's desire (the father's despotic power) but he keeps struggling (at the level of signifiers in his language and of the process of transference) into or out of a subject's or a subjected one's position. The major problem he comes up against lies in his inability to create a long-term singularity bearing the impregnable stamp of his own identity. The actual narrator cannot be identified due to the muddling up of both voices. The linguistic drift of the psychotic being (as a flight from persecution) might result in his fading out as a narrator. The difficulty in bringing himself out as a subject alive and desiring, the failure to resort to a symbolic system, the lack of (sexual) difference point out the devastating effects of the father's debarment on the child's personality
Gingras, Valérie. "La participation des pères d'enfants prématurés dans la Méthode Kangourou et leur compétence parentale ultérieure." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33647.
Full textBlais, Joëlle. "Fonction du père et récidive : mots de passe et impasses : la répétition de la transgression en relation avec le "Nom-du-Père" à l'origine du lien social : une étude en milieu carcéral à la Martinique." Toulouse 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002TOU20058.
Full textWe are puzzled by the insistency of recidivist behaviour. The offender's conduct seems to mean that whatever inserting adjustements are made, wether therapeutic, educational or socio-judiciary, they all seem bound to fail as though any intention of letting him take control of his socialisation has the opposite effect and pushes him back to the place from wich thoses measures were planned to keep him away. The present study examines recidivism as the subject's symptom. Repetitive offending (criminal acting out?) as resistance maintains and trengthens his identity at oods with society. As such, the subject considers recidive as his "raison d'être" i. E. Reason for living; wich by using the expedient of transgression questions the father's function at the basis of social contract. The recidivist chooses his inscription as an outlaw in order to reject his inscription in the Law of Language, in another word, castration. By defying the social law, he stages off the limit of his impossibility, a tribunal that allows him to perform again, by the use of acts of delinquency (interposed offences), the themes pertaining to primordial significants, namely "mother" and "father". The ecocomy that brings forth the act is nourished by the family story that he displays in order to confirm his own subjective economy. Trough shifting on the laws of society, the denial of language interdicts, he performs a sort of perverse refutation. This contempory form (of behaviour) does-all the more so as sexuality is no longer a taboo-open up on a political reflection as to what extent the institutional choices of a society discredit or support the Nom- du-Père" function and foster what they intend to repress
Baillargeon-Lemieux, Haniel. "Devenir père et l'image de soi." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33352.
Full textHanot, Catherine. "Maternité substitutive après la crise du milieu de la vie." Paris 10, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA100002.
Full textAs a solution to the problem of finding parental substitutes, foster parents assume an important role. Confining the scope of this research to foster mothers who have either reached or passed the mid-life crisis, the writer intends to carry out a psychological study of these late vocations. The first argument put forward concerns the question of bereavement. The hypothesis considered is that the child placed in care (with foster parents) becomes a part of the recovery process for the bereaved foster mother, allowing her to overcome the "depressive period". The second argument concerns the problematic relationship of the foster mother with the children. The third argument considers the possibility that these women reproduce their own "family story" by adopting this profession. Throughout this research, the writer has sought to bring out the motives underlying the decision to look after these children who have been place in the care of the children's department of the social services by the courts
St-Hilaire, Édith. "Les facteurs psychologiques liés à la motivation en famille sont-ils identiques pour les deux parents? : une analyse comparative." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56427.pdf.
Full textLabarre, Michel. "Le processus d'adaptation à la naissance d'un premier enfant chez les jeunes pères en contexte économique précaire." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29387/29387.pdf.
Full textWilkin, Negre Marie-Aude. "La postmodernité et ses émergences psychopathologiques." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30052.
Full textWorking as psychologist clinician listening the suffering subject coming to the emergency word, we specially appreciate the diversity of signs end news symptoms presented by these subjects. This research work proposes to answer an interrogation: What is at the beginning of the new mode of uneasiness in the culture, which find their expression in psychopathological emergences of the postmodernity. Using the psychoanalytical theory and its reference authors, especially Freud and Lacan, we will see how, because of the disappearance of Freud's morals end the deficiency of the paternal metaphor in our society, the difficulty is increasingly great for the men to maintain between them the user-friendliness relations resulting from impossibility to exceed the intrusion complex. This research is supported by the study of five clinical cases resulting our hospital practice
Mazza, Mainpin Aurore. "Le travail dans l’accueil familial : quels enjeux pour l’enfant accueillant ?" Thesis, Besançon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BESA1028.
Full textIf the foster care concerns at first foster children displaced from a family to another, it constitutes a singular event for the entire family but mainly for children of foster parents. Our research aims to understand the particularity of these potential fraternal experiences between children (fostered and fostering), beyond the traditional relational configurations derived from filiation. Specifically, to the extent that the foster care is instituted at the intersection of work and family spheres, we seek to understand how these fraternal experiences are invested by the dimensions of work and then how child of foster parents, as a teenager, lives the foster care system. Various types of data (quantitative and qualitative) were collected from 45 teenagers aged from 11 to 18 years. From the perspective of triangulation, we have articulated a statistical analysis of questionnaires, a lexical metric analysis of our entire corpus and finally a qualitative content analysis of four interviews. Even if children of foster parents present anxiety and depression scores lower than the population of the same age, our results show that receiving a child in foster care at home is a complex life experience, changing relational, family and personal balances. How fostering children speak their experience clearly shows the existence of a singular dynamic professional socialization, but also a certain risk of feeling overwhelmed with relationship problems and contrasting family memberships. Finally, we highlight two postures and opposing conceptions of foster care, as children think and live the relationship with the foster child from a perspective of care or service delivery
Laflamme, Dominique. "Les représentations sociales de la paternité en milieu de pauvreté." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24919/24919.pdf.
Full textMouret, Josselyne. "Le Moi͏̈se de Freud : meurtre, loi et transmission : thèse." Nice, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003NICE2003.
Full textThe figure of Moses has a special part to play in the works of Freud prophet, legislator, the saviour of his people and the founding father of the jewish religion, Moses brings together a number of questions concerning the paternal role, law and transmission. Amongs this particularly complex literary works Freud's texts on Moses, The Moses of Michel-Anges, 1914, The man Mose and the monothéistic religion, 1939 constitute an intense and revealing moment in his thoughts on the father figure. This study aims to highlight the impact moses has in psychoanalysis. In so much, Moses can be seen to Freud's answer to his question about the father figure
Toparslan, Sarah. "Le devenir père : étude comparative transculturelle entre les hommes français et turcs de France." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAG038/document.
Full textGiven that the father is always uncertain, we tried to understand what drive French men and Turkish men from France to claim ownership of psychic fatherhood, in the contemporary world. In order to achieve this, we attempt to collect inner feelings, expectations as well as father becoming’s indicators, throughout the perinatality period. We proceed by data collection by way of singular talks of men who are in the process of becoming-father. We observed that wife primes the process leading to fatherhood at the time of the announcement of pregnancy. The imaginary link of these men to the child will forge this construction but also every protagonists with whom they will be in contact. The symbolic debt’s refund is the driving force of this construction. Indeed, the father with his own signifiers, creates a personal relation of father. The language in which he comes within plays a role : the father is eminently a cultural product
Pelletier, Jessie. "Le contact peau-à-peau précoce chez des nouveau-nés à terme : l'expérience vécue par des mères et des pères primipares." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33615.
Full textBoiteau, Caroline. "Devenir père : de la grossesse aux premiers échanges avec le nouveau-né." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB112.
Full textContext. In France, men's position in the perinatal period has changed. The father is ever more present and involved with his partner and baby during the perinatal period. Becoming a father requires important mental adjustments, the man experiences an identity crisis, while waiting for his baby to be born. Becoming a father does not start at the maternity ward, but often well before conception. During pregnancy, paternal representations evolve until childbirth, when the baby becomes real. At birth, the father meets his newborn, who has already multiple relational skills. Throughout pregnancy, the baby has prepared to interact with his/her environment. Early father-infant interactions are based on the father's availability and sensitivity, but also on the child's intention to relate to his/her social partner. Objective. This doctoral thesis looked at the becoming a father, in relation to the becoming a baby. It explored the outset of the father-infant dyad, from pregnancy to the first father-infant interactions, by means of how the two partners coordinate their voices or gazes, as well as of interviews carried out with some of the fathers. Method. Participants were fathers who volunteered to take part in the study. Recruitment took place in a maternity ward in the Paris area. Thirty fathers were filmed a few days after birth, during a face-to-face interaction with their infant. Among these 30 fathers, 20 were filmed again during an interaction at home when their baby was three months old. At three months, four fathers were offered a semi-directed interview relating to their experience of pregnancy, childbirth and the first months following childbirth. Results. Our results showed that from birth, father-infant vocal exchanges are organised in conversational sequences, with a fine timing of less than a second. Moreover, we evidenced that with his gazes, the father supports his infant's behaviour, thus contributing to make a visual encounter. Finally, our results showed that the infant-directed father's speech is very different according to whether his child is a boy or a girl, but also according to his/her attentional state.and behaviour (vocal productions and gaze). These results are discussed in the light of the profound evolution of the fathers role in the family and calls us to reflect on the father's function and on his involvement from the start. Conclusion. From birth, the infant and his/her father meet in an intersubjective dyadic space. The father plays an essential role in the perinatal period and should be supported and accompanied in accessing fatherhood, in order to foster his, as well as his partner's and baby's, wellbeing
Perelman, Olga. "Dynamique psychique paternelle dans la situation échographique : approche clinique et projective de la paternité durant la grossesse." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB101.
Full textThis research project aims to explore the psychic processes at work in men who become fathers for the first time during obstetric ultrasounds of pregnancy. The thesis thus crosses the question of the construction of paternity during pregnancy with the intrapsychic movements resulting from the ultrasound situation. Faced with the current medical imaging techniques that punctuate antenatal consultations and in which men regularly participate, the experience of previous research and theoretical-clinical contributions invites us to consider the unique case of obstetrical ultrasound examination as a relevant axis to investigate. Indeed, the ultrasound is a particular situation because of the condensation of medical and psychic dimensions, projective and fantasy. In addition, during pregnancy, future fathers go through an updating of their first identificatory processes such as infantile sexuality, identification and narcissistic processes. The archaic and Oedipal conflictualities which concern ambivalent movements of libidinal and aggressive impulses, are replayed at the time of the transition to paternity. It is a narcissistic crisis because of the re-articulation of these conscious and unconscious elements during pregnancy for the becoming father, given the reminder of the castration complex and the narcissistic injury resulting from sexual differentiation. From these theoretical contributions, the question of the potential rivalry and the development of aggressiveness that accompanies it, is a central point of our study. This doubly processed question shows up in men becoming fathers, during pregnancy. On the one hand, on its Oedipal side, considering the issues of place and the loss of love of the maternal object toward this rival represented by the child to born. On the other hand, on its more archaic side, the rivalry is considered more in connection with a procreative maternal imago and fantasies of envy and possession of maternal contents. The study problematic is the following: during pregnancy, among men becoming fathers for the first time, how are the movements of aggressiveness and ambivalence conflict expressed? How do the representations of the ultrasound situation relate to the treatment of these aggressiveness movements? 9 French men expecting a first child were included, from a health center in Paris. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with fathers at each ultrasound of the pregnancy. They had to make a drawing of what they saw on the ultrasound image. They also had to fill in self-questionnaires at each time of the research. Finally, the assessment of projective tests (Rorschach and TAT) took place in the sixth month of pregnancy. In the light of our results, we first underline the fantastical efflorescence of the ultrasound situation. We confirm that this situation is a revealer of the psychic movements at work during pregnancy and in particular of instinctual ambivalence. It appears that the period of becoming a father condenses a revival of the Oedipal and fraternal complexes to which the ultrasound situation is added as a containing or disruptive setting. At the same time, our findings conclude that the emergence of aggressiveness is more a sign of an elaborate fate of paternal function. The recognition of sexual differentiation between the father and his partner is put forward as a factor in the development of aggressiveness. We found two sides to the handing over of psychic bisexuality and the treatment of psychosexual developmental regression. They are structured around variations of rivalries
Bapst, Mylène. "Opérationnalisation et transmission de la fonction paternelle dans la parentalité lesbienne : la PMA pour devenir mères." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAG010.
Full textLesbian parenthood is part of the evolution of our kinship system and our medical reproductive technology. It raises debates about the effects of the absence of a father in the everyday life on the development of the child. The objective of our thesis is to understand how the paternal function operates and is transmitted in lesbian parenthood with ART. In order to answer our question, we carried out a qualitative content analysis of 14 research interviews by associating with the Free Realization of a Family Tree. The results reveal that the paternal function is effective in lesbian parenting. It operates from the reactivation of the oedipal issues at work in becoming a parent, conjugality and the place occupied by the donor in transmission fantasies. The paternal function is established by the psychic and legal recognition of places. Finally, it is transmitted and is transmitted through fantasies of transmission, the inscription of the child in a double filiation and a symbolic permutation of the operating places
Koliouli, Flora. "Approche écosystémique de l'expérience paternelle et du soutien social lors d'une naissance prématurée : analyse du stress paternel, des stratégies de coping et de la relation avec le nouveau-né auprès de 48 pères." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20032.
Full textThe aim of this study is to analyse the life experiences of fathers of prematurely-born infants (Lindberg & al., 2008), their relationship with the baby (Morisod-Harari & al., 2013; Ibanez & al., 2006), their partner (Frascarolo, 2001) and the medical staff (Tombeur & al., 2007; Fegran & Helseth, 2009) based on the theoretical eco-systemic approach (Bronfenbrenner, 2005). Specifically the operational model « Process-Person-Context-Time » (Bronfenbrenner, 1996), on which we are building, in an original manner, to analyse the contribution of personal, contextual and family-related factors on the fathers’ life experiences. As per our methodology, 48 fathers of prematurely-born infants participated in our study through a semi-structured interview, based on the Clinical Interview for parents of high risk infants (Meyer, Zeanah, Boukydis & Lester, 1993), as well as a series of questionnaires. We used standardised tests as well as questionnaires adapted to our study purposes: the Parenting Alliance Inventory (PAI)(Abidin & Brunner, 1995) and the Parent Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale (P-MISS) (Lewis, Scott, Pantell & Wolf, 1986) in order to analyze the proximal processes. Fathers were asked to evaluate their life experiences by completing the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC), (Johnston & Mash, 1989), the Parent Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS: NICU) (Miles & Davis, 1993), the Perinatal Post-traumatic Questionnaire (PPQ) (Quinnell & Hynan, 1999) and the Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) (McCubbin, McCubbin, Patterson, Cauble, Wilson & Warwick, 1983). The family and extra family support were measured by the Family Support Scale (FSS) (Dunst, Jenkins & Trivette, 1984). Our principal results indicate that fathers construct an early bond with the infant but also admit to being traumatised by the premature birth. The fathers also exhibit a cooperative parenting alliance with and a high level of satisfaction towards the medical staff. However, the results reveal an inferior sense of paternal competence by the fathers within our sample compared to the general population. The results also show that paternal stress is high and will induce post-traumatic stress symptoms during the hospitalisation of the infant. Though, most fathers adopt a coping strategy, such as maintaining family cohesion and communication with the medical staff and other fathers in the unit. Finally, the impact of the context’s characteristics on all our variables is highlighted, namely family support and extra-family support provided by the medical staff and other parents in the neonatal unit. The results obtained allow us to suggest research themes as well as intervention schemes within the relevant services, towards the fathers of prematurely-born infants