"Understanding stability and change in coparenting: Predictors and outcomes in families with young children"

“了解共同养育的稳定性和变化：有幼儿家庭的预测因素和结果”

• 批准号: 9049149
• 负责人: Brandon T. McDaniel
• 金额: $ 2.17万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-01 至 2016-08-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9049149
• 关键词: Affect; Age; Award; Birth; Characteristics; Child; Child Behavior; Child Rearing; Couples; Data; Development; Emotional; Family; Family Characteristics; Family Relationship; Goals; Homeostasis; Individual; Individual Differences; Intervention; Investigation; Lead; Life; Life Stress; Link; Measures; Mental Health; Mentors; Nature; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Process; Protocols documentation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk; Secure; Security; Source; Stress; Stretching; Surveys; System; Temperament; Time; Work; base; child depression; design; diaries; early childhood; experience; externalizing behavior; family influence; infancy; insight; outcome prediction; public health relevance; success; therapy design

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Coparenting the way partners work together in child-rearing-has been linked to long-term couple outcomes such as marital quality 2 and child outcomes such as internalizing/externalizing adjustment, attachment security, and academic success. 3 Although some studies have reported moderate stability in coparenting quality across the early years after birth, 2 the intervals between assessments have typically been quite large. Coparenting quality may fluctuate however at more rapid time scales as families deal with the stresses of early parenthood. 9 Research has shown that inconsistency/instability in parenting and family relationships is linked to insecure attachment 10 and greater strain on individuals and couples. 11 Accordingly, short-term (daily and monthly) fluctuations in coparenting may also represent a risk for poor individual and family outcomes. To better understand the dynamic processes of coparenting and how these dynamics influence families and children, this work will (1) utilize a daily measure of coparenting in a new daily diary study (Daily Family Life Project, DFLP), (2) examine predictors of variability in coparenting quality at the daily level (DFLP) and the monthly level (data from Project SIESTA, R01- HD052809, a study of parents across the first two years of parenthood), and (3) examine family and child outcomes of both daily and monthly variability in coparenting quality. Findings have the potential to inform the design of interventions for families with young children and should further strengthen families.

 描述（由申请人提供）：伴侣共同抚养孩子的方式与长期夫妻结果（例如婚姻质量2）和孩子结果（例如内化/外化调整、依恋安全性和学业成功）相关。 3 尽管一些研究报告出生后最初几年的共同养育质量具有中等稳定性，2 评估之间的间隔通常相当大。然而，随着家庭应对早期为人父母的压力，共同养育的质量可能会以更快的时间尺度出现波动。 9 研究表明，养育和家庭关系的不一致/不稳定与不安全依恋 10 以及个人和夫妻承受的更大压力有关。 11 因此，共同养育子女的短期（每日和每月）波动也可能带来个人和家庭结果不佳的风险。为了更好地了解共同养育的动态过程以及这些动态如何影响家庭和儿童，这项工作将（1）在一项新的日常日记研究（每日家庭生活项目，DFLP）中利用每日共同养育的衡量标准，（2）检查每日水平（DFLP）和每月水平的共同养育质量变异性的预测因素（数据来自项目SIESTA，R01-HD052809，这是一项针对父母在孩子出生前两年的研究） (3) 检查共同养育质量的每日和每月变化的家庭和儿童结果。研究结果有可能为有幼儿的家庭的干预措施设计提供信息，并应进一步加强家庭。