Enhancing Paternal Support: A Concept Analysis of Social Support for First-Time Fathers

Table 1

Steps of walker and Avant’s concept analysis (2019).

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Step 1. Select a concept

Step 2. Determine the aims or purposes of the analysis

Step 3. Identify all uses of the concept that you can discover

Step 4. Determine the defining attributes

Step 5. Identify a model case

Step 6. Identify borderline, related, contrary, invented, and illegitimate cases

Step 7. Identify antecedents and consequences

Step 8. Define empirical referents

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