Sentences with phrase «coparenting only»

More specifically, Crockenberg and Leerkes's (2003) model suggests that child temperamental reactivity may adversely affect coparenting only in conjunction with other risk factors related to family members or family contexts and may even positively affect coparenting when such risk factors are absent.

That is, parent - rated negative emotionality in preschoolers was associated with lower observed and self - reported supportive coparenting only in families reporting higher levels of postnatal marital adjustment.

Not exact matches

Finally, only in Stright and Bales» (2003) study on families with preschoolers, no significant role of children's difficult temperament in the quality of coparenting (supportive and unsupportive coparenting; observations or self - reports) was detected (r < −.18, ns).

Our review of the literature yielded only one finding that was inconsistent with the hypothesis that a reactive temperament is directly associated with more adverse coparenting: Davis et al. (2009) reported a negative association between temperamental difficulty (see above; father rating at 3.5 months) and observed undermining coparenting behavior (both parents; r = −.33, p <.05).

As only few studies have directly investigated the association between parental anxiety and coparenting, we will, first, briefly review the literature on how adult anxiety affects marital functioning; second, how parental anxiety affects parenting behavior; and, third, turn to the relation between parental anxiety and coparenting.

More specifically, maternal pessimism about the future coparenting relationship was negatively associated with postpartum observed coparenting cohesion (consisting of cooperation, competition, and family warmth), but only in families with highly reactive infants (r = −.63, p <.05).

However, the divorced families who can not or will not coparent are the only ones affected by the SPI.

The MCP was identified as a coparent in 75 % of the families, an additional coparent was identified in only 30 % of the families, and, when the MCP did not serve as a coparent, another individual was identified in this role in only 24 % of the families.

It was hypothesized that parental flexibility and self - control would not only explain significant variance in coparenting quality, but also act as moderators attenuating anticipated relationships between marital functioning and coparental process.

The main results show that (a) mothers promote family integrity in stepfamilies either with the partner, or with the father, but not with both; (b) the older the child, the less the mothers reported integrity with the father in both families, and the more they reported disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies; and (c) maternal marital satisfaction is linked with all dimensions of coparenting with the father in first - marriage families, but only with disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies.

However, self - reported measures of the quality of coparenting behaviors only provide access to each parent's individual perceptions about these relational phenomena.

The results globally indicated that only coparenting support was a significant mediator.

Moreover, only the links between depressive symptoms in mothers at 3 months postpartum and their own report of the presence of symptoms in the child 18 months later was mediated by coparenting support.

As expected, the average score for conflict was in the lower range of the scale, and most families (n = 36, 52.9 %) obtained the lowest score on the conflict scale, whereas only three families (4.4 %) showed the highest level of coparenting conflict during the triadic play.

The results showed that coparenting support mediated the links between parental depressive symptoms and child symptoms, but only for mothers: Maternal depressive symptoms were linked with lower coparenting support, which in turn predicted increased psychofunctional symptoms and behavior problems assessed by mothers.