The purpose of this study is to examine variables contributing to the father' s role perceptions and actual involvements, of four categories of his demographic factors, familial factors, child characteristics, and psychological characteristics. To meet this purpose, following research hypotheses were set up for the study. 1. The father's role perceptions will be explained by the variables of his demographic factors, familial factors, child characteristics, and his psychological characteristics. In addition, there will be a best fitting model consisted of the most important variables contributing to his role perceptions. 2. The father's involvements will be explained by the variables of the same categories of his demographic factors, familial factors, child characteristics and his psychological characteristics, and his role perceptions. In addition, there will be a best fitting model consisted of the most important variables contributing to his involvements. 3. The differences between his role perceptions and involvements will be explained by the variables of the same categories. In addition, there will be a best fitting model consisted of the most important variables explaining the differences. Three hundred one fathers of kindergarteners enrolled at kindergarten in Seoul City were randomly selected by stratified sampling with multiple stage cluster for this study. Data were collected by self reporting on Questionnaires. The Questionnaire includes Questions on the father's demograph factors, familial factors, child characteristics, and psychological characteristic factors. The data were analyzed by the multiple regression analysis, correlation analysis and t-test. The findings of the study are as follows: 1. The results of the regression analysis for the father's role perceptions showed that 26.8% of the variance was accounted for by those 24 variables. The four variables contributing most were that of marital agreement, interpersonal orientiation, job satisfaction, and masculinity. 2. The results of the regression analysis for father's involvements showed that 53.5% of the variance was accounted for by those 25 variabiles, and the father'role perception. The seven variables contributing most were as follows; that of father's role perceptions, marital agreement, perceptions on own father's nurturance, mother's expections of fathering, discussion on parenting between father and mother, mother's feeling on fathering, and masculinity. 3. The results of the regression analysis for the difference between the father's role perceptions and his actual involvement showed that 19.5% of the variance was accounted for by the 24 variabiles. The four variables contributing most were that of perceptions of own father's nurturance, mother's expections of fathering, discussion on parenting between father and mother, and income.