Parent Characteristics and Early Coparenting Behavior at the Transition to Parenthood

Autor/inn/en	Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.; Mangelsdorf, Sarah C.
Titel	Parent Characteristics and Early Coparenting Behavior at the Transition to Parenthood
Quelle	In: Social Development, 22 (2013) 2, S.363-383 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/sode.12014
Schlagwörter	Child Rearing; Parenting Styles; Parent Attitudes; Mothers; Fathers; Parent Role; Socioeconomic Status; Marital Satisfaction; Interpersonal Relationship; Teamwork; Interaction; Individual Characteristics; Emotional Response; Personality Traits; Parent Child Relationship; Negative Attitudes; Regression (Statistics); Longitudinal Studies; Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindererziehung; Elternverhalten; Mother; Mutter; Parental role; Elternrolle; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interaktion; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Emotionales Verhalten; Individual characteristics; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Negative Fixierung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	This study examined parent characteristics as correlates of coparenting behavior in 57 primiparous couples. Parents' negative emotionality and perceptions of maternal acceptance in childhood, mothers' beliefs about fathers' roles, and observed marital behavior and family socioeconomic status were assessed during the third trimester of pregnancy, and coparenting behavior was observed at 3.5 months postpartum. Couples who exhibited high-quality marital interaction showed higher supportive coparenting behavior, but couples who showed lower quality marital interaction demonstrated higher supportive coparenting behavior when mothers held more progressive beliefs about fathers' roles. Couples showed more undermining coparenting behavior when family socioeconomic status was lower and when fathers were higher on negative emotionality. Greater perceived maternal acceptance in childhood was only associated with lower levels of undermining behavior when prenatal marital interaction was high in quality. Thus, the characteristics of both parents, especially in combination with preexisting marital behavior, are important determinants of coparenting behavior. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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