Sentences with phrase «paternal coparenting»

Of note, these associations were found more often for paternal coparenting (i.e., father's observed behavior, or mother's perception of fathers» behavior) than for maternal coparenting.

They also found that maternal report of infant reactivity was linked with mother reports of lower quality of paternal coparenting, less father involvement in child care activities, and diminished maternal satisfaction with the division of parenting.

Furthermore, more studies reported negative effects of child reactive temperament on paternal coparenting behavior (observed or perceived by the mother) as compared to maternal coparenting behavior, which suggests that paternal coparenting is more strongly affected by a child's reactive temperament.

Three of those studies found positive relations between (mainly) paternal coparenting behaviors and infant or child negative reactive temperament (Lindsey et al. 2005; Cook et al. 2009; Burney and Leerkes 2010), one study reported non-significant and marginally significant associations (Schoppe - Sullivan et al. 2007) and one study found no associations (Stright and Bales 2003).

Third, Burney and Leerkes (2010), who studied 6 - month - old infants and their parents, found a positive association (r =.28, p <.01) between maternal reports of infant soothability and quality of paternal coparenting (operationalized as greater sense of teamwork, respect, and positive communication; mother report).

Not exact matches

Prior research on nonmarital childrearing reveals that a parent's romantic relationship, positive coparenting, and parental cohabitation are all positively associated with increased paternal involvement and support.

In the Children in the Community Study, a community - based longitudinal study exploring the impact of parental psychiatric disorders in 872 families, paternal anxiety disorder was associated with maternal report of lower assistance of their wives, frequent loud arguments with their wives, and poor fulfillment of family roles (Johnson et al. 2004), which can be regarded as indicators of poor coparenting.

Interestingly, raw correlations from Davis et al. (2009) suggested a negative association between undermining coparenting and paternal perceptions of infant difficulty at 3.5 months.

Taken this finding one step further, anxious fathers may tend to control the coparenting relationship (which was associated with more paternal control of the anxious child), whereas anxious mothers may not.

Furthermore, paternal report of infant difficulty at 3.5 months was associated with a reduction of supportive coparenting behavior (both parents) between 3.5 and 13 months.

In line with the previous sections, some evidence was found for a stronger role of (maternal perceptions of) paternal than maternal coparenting behaviors on child anxiety.

FRPN will fund the evaluation of programs that aim to increase paternal engagement and parenting skills; improve fathers» ability to provide economic support; and increase parenting time, father - child contact, positive coparenting and healthy relationships.

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the impact of maternal and paternal depressive symptoms on the child might be mediated by coparenting support and conflict.

The present study specifically aimed to extend these results by testing a mediation model according to which maternal and paternal depressive symptoms would lead to higher coparenting conflict and lower support, which would in turn lead to more negative outcomes in infants, measured in terms of difficult behaviors, and psychofunctional symptoms.

On the other hand, neither maternal nor paternal depressive symptoms significantly predicted coparenting conflict.

The main analyses consisted of testing a model in which coparenting support and conflict mediated the links between maternal and paternal depression and child psychofunctional and externalizing symptoms (Figure 1).

Coparenting support and conflict as mediators between maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and child symptoms.

Keywords: maternal depression, paternal depression, coparenting, child symptoms, Lausanne Trilogue Play

Finally, in the main set of analyses, we tested the adjustment of a mediation model, with maternal and paternal depression predicting coparenting support and conflict, which in turn predicted child symptoms assessed by both parents.