197 Geoffrey L. Brown, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brent A. McBride, Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nana Shin, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University; Kelly K. Bost, De- partment of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0126427) to Bost & McBride. Opinions reflect those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the granting agency. The authors would like to express their appreciation to Cathy Inman, Paul King, and Nikita Ligutam for their assistance with data collection. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Geoffrey L. Brown, Department of Psy- chology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820. Electronic mail: glbrown@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu Fathering, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 2007, 197-219. © 2007 by the Men’s Studies Press, LLC. http://www.mensstudies.com. All rights reserved. fth.0503.197/$12.00 DOI: 10.3149/fth.0503.197 Parenting Predictors of Father-Child Attachment Security: Interactive Effects of Father Involvement and Fathering Quality GEOFFREY L. BROWN BRENT A. MCBRIDE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NANA SHIN KELLY K. BOST Auburn University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study examined the parenting predictors of father-child attachment secu- rity in early childhood. Results suggest that multiple dimensions of fathers’ parenting quality moderated the associations between father involvement, in its original content-free sense, and father-child attachment. Specifically, father involvement was generally unrelated to attachment security when fathers en- gaged in high-quality parenting behavior, but associated with lower levels of attachment security when fathers’ parenting was less adaptive. Findings pro- vide further evidence for the important role of parenting quality in the father- child attachment relationship, and suggest that the consequences of involved fathering for father-child attachment security are dependent upon qualitative aspects of fathering behavior. Keywords: father-child attachment, childhood, fathering, security The last several decades have seen an increase in research incorporating fathers into studies of child and family development (Lamb & Tamis-Lemonda, 2004). In ad- dition to documenting levels of paternal involvement, this research has also explored