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

 描述(由申请人提供)：伴侣在养育子女方面共同努力的方式与婚姻质量2等长期夫妻结果和子女结果(如内化/外化适应、依恋安全和学业成功)有关。3尽管一些研究报告了出生后最初几年的生育质量比较稳定，2但两次评估的间隔时间通常很长。然而，随着家庭应对早年为人父母的压力，育儿质量可能会以更快的时间尺度波动。9研究表明，育儿和家庭关系中的不一致/不稳定与不安全的依恋10和个人和夫妇更大的压力有关。11因此，合作关系的短期(每日和每月)波动也可能是个人和家庭结果不佳的风险。为了更好地了解育儿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(Daily Family Life Project，DFLP)中利用每日育儿的测量，(2)在日水平(DFLP)和月水平(DFLP)(来自Project Sesta，R01-HD052809，一项针对父母头两年的研究)检验育儿质量的变异性的预测因素，以及(3)检验家庭和孩子在养育质量的日变异性和月度变异性方面的结果。调查结果有可能为有幼儿的家庭设计干预措施提供参考，并应进一步加强家庭。

 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.