MPC Member Publications

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Title: Supportive Coparenting Relationships as a Haven of Psychological Safety at the Transition to Parenthood

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

ISSN: 15427617

DOI: 10.1080/15427609.2016.1141281

PMID: 29056880

Abstract: Guided by research on psychological safety, the authors used longitudinal survey data from a sample of 182 dual-earner male–female couples to examine the role of supportive coparenting in mediating relations between adult attachment orientations and parenting stress/satisfaction and further considered whether parenting self-efficacy moderated relations between supportive coparenting and parenting stress/satisfaction. Path analyses using IBM SPSS AMOS 22 and bootstrapping techniques indicated that fathers’ (but not mothers’) perceptions of supportive coparenting at 3 months postpartum mediated the associations between their attachment anxiety in the third trimester of pregnancy and their parenting stress and satisfaction at 9 months postpartum. Additional tests of moderation revealed that mothers’ perceptions of greater supportive coparenting were associated with lower parenting stress only when their parenting self-efficacy was low, but fathers’ perceptions of greater supportive coparenting were associated with greater parenting satisfaction only when their parenting self-efficacy was high. Implications and limitations are discussed.

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427609.2016.1141281

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Authors: Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.; Settle, Theresa; Lee, Jin Kyung; Kamp Dush, Claire M.

Periodical (Full): Research in Human Development

Issue: 1

Volume: 13

Pages: 32-48

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