Observational studyJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2019
Coparenting and parenting pathways from the couple relationship to children's behavior problems.
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- The Association between Coparenting Behavior and Internalizing/Externalizing Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Parenting as a Mediator of Associations between Depression in Mothers and Children's Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Pooled it
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- Improved Child Mental Health Following Brief Relationship Enhancement and Co-Parenting Interventions During the Transition to Parenthood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Parenting Stress, Parental Self-Efficacy, and Coparenting: Prospective Associations with Child Metabolic Health.Journal of child and family studies · 2026Article
- Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers.Family process · 2025Article
- Mothers' and Fathers' Experiences of Family Relations and Parenting During the First Year of Parenthood.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Why Do Migrant Children Have Poorer Mental Health Compared to Urban Children? A Network Analysis Approach.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Romantic relationship satisfaction and coparenting quality in families with children previously diagnosed with developmental delay.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- 'When there is love between a father and mother, the child will also be loved': a qualitative exploration of the links between couples' relationships, parenting and early childhood development in Mwanza, Tanzania.BMJ public health · 2023Article
- Exploring the Complex Landscape of Delayed Childbearing: Factors, History, and Long-Term Implications.Cureus · 2023Review
- Formative research to inform the future design of a multicomponent fatherhood intervention to improve early child development in Mwanza, Tanzania.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Development of a Brief Coparenting Measure: The Coparenting Competence Scale.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Influence of Parental Mindfulness on Preschool Child Behavior Problems: A Chain-Mediated Model Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Parental personality, mental health, and fear of happiness as predictors of perceived coparenting relationship quality among mothers and fathers of preschoolers.Australian journal of psychology · 2023Article
- Parent ADHD Is Associated With Greater Parenting Distress in the First Year Postpartum.Journal of attention disorders · 2022Article
- Marital satisfaction, parenting styles, and child outcomes in families of autistic children.Family process · 2022Article
- Nonresident Fathers' and Grandparents' Early Years Support and Middle Childhood Socio-Emotional Adjustment.Journal of marriage and the family · 2021Article
- Coparental discord and children's behavior problems: Children's negative family representations as an explanatory mechanism.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2020Article
- Manifestation and Associated Factors of Pregnancy-Related Worries in Expectant Fathers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although an extensive literature has linked couple conflict with the development of children's externalizing behavior problems, longer term protective effects of positive dimensions of couple relationships on children's externalizing behavior remain understudied, particularly in relation to underlying mechanisms. Supportiveness in the dyadic couple relationship may enhance mothers' and fathers' individual parenting skills and protect against children's behavior problems, but the contribution of coparenting (couples' support for one another's individual parenting) remains unclear. This observational study investigated associations between couple supportiveness in children's infancy and middle childhood externalizing problems, exploring pathways involving coparenting and/or mothers' and fathers' individual parenting using data from the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study (MCS; N = 5,779) and the U.S. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS; N = 2,069). Couple supportiveness was associated with reduced externalizing problems 8 to 10 years later (standardized betas: MCS = -.13, FFS = -.11, both ps < .001). Much of this effect (60% MCS, 55% FFS) was attributable to coparenting and parenting when children were aged 3 to 5 years. Pathways from couple supportiveness involving negative parenting were stronger than those via positive parenting, pathways via mothers' parenting were stronger than those via fathers' parenting, and there were pathways via coparenting alone (without affecting parenting). Pathways involving coparenting were similar in magnitude (MCS), or larger (FFS), than those involving parenting alone. Consistent findings across different population samples suggest that helping parents to support one another in coparenting and to develop their individual parenting skills may lessen the longer term impact of couple relationship problems during early childhood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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