A Parenting Team?

育儿团队？

• 批准号: ES/T008989/1
• 负责人: Sarah Foley
• 金额: $ 12.19万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT008989%2F1
• 关键词: Parenting; Team

By five years old, 25% of children in the UK will have experienced the separation of their parents (Understanding Society 2018). It has traditionally been assumed by the public and courts of law that mothers should receive sole physical custody of their children, pushing them into single parenting despite shared legal custody with fathers. However, over the last two decades there has been an increasing shift towards shared physical custody, such that in 2018 leading experts called for a presumption of joint physical and legal custody, and by inference shared parenting (Braver & Lamb, 2018). Research outside the UK has found an advantage for shared parenting of children in joint physical custody across a range of domains, though noting some disadvantages, such as constant switching between homes (Nielsen, 2018). There is also a substantial body of evidence that conflict between parents, before and after separation, is associated with poorer child outcomes (Amato, 2001; Amato, 2010). It is estimated that 9% of UK families engage in shared parenting post separation (Peacey & Hunt, 2010), but there is no UK research on how children are faring in these families. What are relationships like within these shared parenting families? How do separated couples manage shared parenting? What is it like for children? If we are to address the UK policy drive to improve child and adolescent mental health (Department of Health Green Paper, 2017), it is imperative that we understand how separated couples manage shared parenting and how this effects children. Without this, potential targets for improving child adjustment and family life post-divorce are not well understood and decisions guiding parenting plans produced by courts are made upon assumptions and not evidence. I propose to use this fellowship to publicise and extend my research examining parents as partners to influence both scientific understanding and public policy.I am a developmental psychologist and my doctoral research followed 200 mothers and fathers and examined psychological wellbeing and family relationships from pregnancy through the first two years of their first-born child's life. Despite an increase in fathers' involvement in childcare, the majority of research remains focused on mothers. My research explored whether the same factors (e.g., depression, couple relationship quality) influence both mothers' and fathers' parenting and how members of a couple impact each other. I found mothers', but not fathers', thoughts and feelings about their infant during pregnancy predicted the quality of their parenting during infancy. Whilst fathers' but not mothers' parenting over the first two years of life was more susceptible to outside influence, for example from mothers' behaviour and mental health and the quality of their couple relationship. These findings have important practical implications - mothers and fathers may need different types of support at different time points and helping one parent may lead to benefits for the other, which in turn may improve later child outcomes. During my fellowship I will consolidate the research arising from my PhD to l enable me to pursue an independent career in academia. First, I aim to further publish and publicise the findings from my doctoral research. Second, I aim to develop my ability to translate research into policy and practice. Specifically, I will become associated with OnePlusOne, a national relationship charity, to develop content for their digital interventions for couples based upon my doctoral research. Third, I will test the feasibility of conducting the first UK study examining co-parenting after relationship breakdown. This pilot will ensure I will be in a well-informed position to develop my applications for further independent research funding which will enable me to extend the research field of parenting influences on child development and take my academic career to the next stage.

到五岁时，英国25%的儿童将经历父母分离（了解社会2018）。传统上，公众和法院都认为，母亲应该单独获得对子女的人身监护权，尽管与父亲共同享有法律的监护权，但这使他们成为单身父母。然而，在过去的二十年里，越来越多的人转向共同的身体监护权，因此在2018年，领先的专家呼吁推定共同的身体和法律的监护权，并推断共同养育子女（Braver & Lamb，2018）。英国以外的研究发现，在一系列领域中，共同监护儿童的共同养育具有优势，尽管注意到一些缺点，例如家庭之间的不断转换（尼尔森，2018）。还有大量证据表明，父母分居前后的冲突与子女的不良结局有关（Amato，2001年; Amato，2010年）。据估计，9%的英国家庭在分居后共同养育子女（Quarey & Hunt，2010），但英国没有关于这些家庭中儿童状况的研究。这些共同养育子女的家庭中的关系是什么样的？分居的夫妻如何管理共同养育子女？对孩子来说是什么样的？如果我们要解决英国改善儿童和青少年心理健康的政策驱动（卫生部绿色文件，2017年），我们必须了解分居夫妇如何管理共同养育子女以及这如何影响孩子。如果没有这一点，就无法很好地理解改善离婚后儿童适应和家庭生活的潜在目标，法院指导育儿计划的决定是根据假设而不是证据作出的。我建议利用这个奖学金来宣传和扩展我的研究，研究父母作为合作伙伴来影响科学理解和公共政策。我是一名发展心理学家，我的博士研究跟踪了200名母亲和父亲，并研究了从怀孕到头胎出生的头两年的心理健康和家庭关系。尽管父亲参与育儿的情况有所增加，但大多数研究仍然侧重于母亲。我的研究探讨了同样的因素（例如，抑郁症，夫妻关系质量）影响母亲和父亲的养育方式以及夫妻成员如何相互影响。我发现母亲在怀孕期间对婴儿的想法和感受，而不是父亲，可以预测他们在婴儿期的养育质量。而父亲而不是母亲的养育方式在生命的头两年更容易受到外界的影响，例如母亲的行为和心理健康以及他们夫妻关系的质量。这些发现具有重要的实际意义-母亲和父亲在不同的时间点可能需要不同类型的支持，帮助父母中的一方可能会给另一方带来好处，这反过来又可能会改善子女以后的结果。在我的奖学金期间，我将巩固我的博士学位所产生的研究，使我能够在学术界追求独立的职业生涯。首先，我的目标是进一步发表和宣传我的博士研究成果。其次，我的目标是发展我的能力，将研究转化为政策和实践。具体来说，我将与OnePlusOne（一家全国性的关系慈善机构）合作，根据我的博士研究成果，为他们的夫妇数字干预开发内容。第三，我将测试进行英国第一项研究的可行性，研究关系破裂后的共同抚养问题。这个试点将确保我将在一个消息灵通的位置，以开发我的应用程序，进一步独立的研究资金，这将使我能够扩展育儿对儿童发展的影响的研究领域，并把我的学术生涯到下一个阶段。

项目成果

Cross-cultural equivalence of parental ratings of child difficulties during the pandemic: Findings from a six-site study.

大流行期间儿童困难等级的跨文化等效性：六个站点研究的发现。

• DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1933
• 发表时间: 2023-03
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Foley, Sarah;Ronchi, Luca;Lecce, Serena;Feng, Xin;Chan, Meingold H. M.;Hughes, Claire
• 通讯作者: Hughes, Claire

Two's Company, Three's a Crowd? Maternal and Paternal Talk About Their Infant Differs in Associations with Wellbeing, Couple Relationship Quality and Caregiving Sensitivity

两人为伴，三人成群？

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.58884
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Foley S

Two's Company, Three's a Crowd? Maternal and Paternal Talk About Their Infant Differs in Associations With Wellbeing, Couple Relationship Quality, and Caregiving Sensitivity.

两个公司，三个人群？母亲和父亲谈论婴儿在与福祉，夫妇关系质量和照料敏感性的关联方面有所不同。

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.578632
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Frontiers in psychiatry
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Foley S;Álvarez C;McCarthy J;Hughes C
• 通讯作者: Hughes C

Prenatal attachment: using measurement invariance to test the validity of comparisons across eight culturally diverse countries.

• DOI: 10.1007/s00737-021-01105-8
• 发表时间: 2021-08
• 期刊: Archives of women's mental health
• 作者: Foley S;Hughes C;Murray AL;Baban A;Fernando AD;Madrid B;Osafo J;Sikander S;Abbasi F;Walker S;Luong-Thanh BY;Vo TV;Tomlinson M;Fearon P;Ward CL;Valdebenito S;Eisner M
• 通讯作者: Eisner M

Mind-mindedness in new mothers and fathers: Stability and discontinuity from pregnancy to toddlerhood.

新父母的思想意识：从怀孕到幼儿期的稳定性和不连续性。

• DOI: 10.1037/dev0001468
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Developmental Psychology
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Foley S