Are Some Children Harder to Coparent Than Others? Children's Negative Emotionality and Coparenting Relationship Quality
Are Some Children Harder to Coparent Than Others? Children's Negative Emotionality and Coparenting Relationship Quality
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015992
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Davis, Evan F.
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作者：
Cook, J. Claire;Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.;Davis, Evan F.
本研究考察了儿童气质（特别是消极情绪）与父母支持和破坏父母教养行为之间的关系，并进一步测试了婚姻调整是否会调节儿童消极情绪与父母教养之间的关系。111个有一个4岁孩子的双亲家庭参与了这项研究。父母完成问卷，提供关于孩子的消极情感、婚姻调整和父母关系质量的信息。此外，父母和孩子一起参与了两次10分钟的以任务为导向的互动，这些互动被编码以评估父母的行为。正如假设的那样，负面情绪水平较高的孩子的父母表现出更大的破坏父母行为。此外，婚姻调整对子女负性情绪与父母支持教养行为之间的关系有调节作用。然而，与预期相反，婚姻调整水平较高的夫妇最容易受到孩子消极情绪对支持性父母的影响。结果表明，高质量的婚姻关系可能不会缓冲父母关系对气质困难的学龄前儿童的影响。
The current study examined relations between child temperament-specifically, negative emotionality-and parents' supportive and undermining coparenting behavior, and further tested whether marital adjustment moderated relations between child negative affect and coparenting. One-hundred eleven two-parent families with a 4-year old child participated in this study. Parents completed questionnaires to provide information on children's negative affectivity, marital adjustment, and the quality of their coparenting relationships. Furthermore, parents and children participated together in two 10-minute task-oriented interactions that were coded to assess coparenting behavior. As hypothesized, parents of children higher on levels of negative affect demonstrated greater undermining coparenting behavior. In addition, marital adjustment moderated relations between children's negative affect and parents' supportive coparenting behavior. However, contrary to expectations, couples with higher levels of marital adjustment were most vulnerable to effects of child negativity on supportive coparenting. Results suggest that high-quality marital relationships may not buffer the coparenting relationship from the effects of temperamentally difficult preschoolers.