Effects of the dads for life intervention on interparental conflict and coparenting in the two years after divorce
Effects of the dads for life intervention on interparental conflict and coparenting in the two years after divorce
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00196.x
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Miles, Jonathan C.
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作者：
Cookston, Jeffrey T.;Braver, Sanford L.;Miles, Jonathan C.
父母在离婚后建立和谐的共同养育关系的能力是其子女长期幸福的重要预测因素。然而，没有令人信服的证据表明这种关系可以通过干预来改变。我们开发的一种预防性干预措施，Dads for Life（DFL），针对非监护父母作为参与者，先前已在一项随机现场试验中显示，对儿童的福祉产生了有利的影响。我们在这里探讨它是否也有影响的母亲和父亲的共同养育和父母间冲突的看法，在2年后离婚。潜在的增长曲线模型，我们评估的结果表明，母亲和父亲都报告较少的冲突时，父亲参加DFL与对照组相比。对于父亲来说，无论是在DFL或控制条件下，共同养育的看法并没有随着时间的推移而改变。或者，母亲的支持的看法随着时间的推移下降，在对照组，而那些前夫参加DFL计划报告显着的积极增长变化，朝着更健康的共同抚养。母亲报告的积极结果特别令人信服，因为母亲不是参与者，因此排除了常见的替代解释。因此，DFL的干预为法院提供了一个改善离婚后家庭功能的有希望的计划。
The ability of parents to forge harmonious coparenting relationships following divorce is an important predictor of their children's long-term well-being. However, there is no convincing evidence that this relationship can be modified through intervention. A preventive intervention that we developed, Dads for Life (DFL), which targeted noncustodial parents as participants, has previously been shown in a randomized field trial to favorably impact child well-being. We explore here whether it also has an impact on mothers' and fathers' perceptions of coparenting and interparental conflict in the 2 years following divorce. Results of the latent growth curve models we evaluated showed that both mothers and fathers reported less conflict when the father participated in DFL as compared with controls. For the fathers, perceptions of coparenting did not change over time in either the DFL or control conditions. Alternatively, mothers' perceptions of support declined over time in the control group, whereas those whose ex-husbands participated in the DFL program reported significant positive growth change toward healthier coparenting. The positive findings for mothers' reports are particularly compelling because mothers were not the participants, and thus common alternative explanations are ruled out. The DFL intervention, then, offers courts a promising program to improve families' functioning after divorce.