ArticleCouple & family psychology2017
A Dyadic Perspective on PTSD Symptoms' Associations with Couple Functioning and Parenting Stress in First-Time Parents.
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- Post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma and parenting stress: an individual participant data meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Pooled it
- Gender Differences in Variability in Intimate Relationship Satisfaction: A Secondary Analysis and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Parents' PTSD symptoms and child abuse potential during the perinatal period: Direct associations and mediation via relationship conflict.Child abuse & neglect · 2019Trial
- Associations Among Religious Involvement, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Marital Functioning Within the U.S. Latino Population.Psychology of religion and spirituality · 2026Article
- Couple-Level Manifestations of Posttraumatic Stress and Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Relationship Functioning.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Elucidating posttraumatic stress symptom dimensions and health correlates among postpartum women.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- The role of parental negative world assumptions in the intergenerational transmission of war trauma.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- Bioecological Implications of Narrative Exposure Therapy in Low-Resource Settings: Individual, Family, Community, and Socio-Political Contexts.The Australian and New Zealand journal of family therapy · 2019Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder and relationship functioning: A comprehensive review and organizational framework.Clinical psychology review · 2018Review
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Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are associated with disruptions in both couple functioning and parenting, and limited research suggests that, among military couples, perceptions of couple functioning and parenting stress are a function of both one's own and one's partner's mental health symptoms. However, this work has not been generalized to civilian couples, and little is known about the associations between PTSD symptoms and family adjustment in specific family developmental contexts. We examined PTSD symptoms' associations with perceived couple functioning and parenting stress within a dyadic context in civilian couples who had participated in a randomized controlled trial of a universal, couple-based transition to parenthood program and at least one member of the couple reported having experienced a Criterion A1 traumatic event. Results of actor-partner interdependence models revealed that parents' own and partners' PTSD symptoms were negatively associated with perceived couple functioning; contrary to expectation, the association of partners' PTSD symptoms with perceived couple functioning was strongest among men who received the intervention. A parent's own PTSD symptoms were positively associated with parenting stress for both men and women and were unexpectedly strongest for men who received the intervention. Partner PTSD symptoms were also positively associated with increased parenting stress for both men and women. Findings support a dyadic conceptualization of the associations between spouses' PTSD symptoms and family outcomes during the transition to parenthood and suggest that participating in a couple-based, psychoeducational program during this phase in the family life cycle may be particularly salient for men.
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