Coparental Conflict and Triangulation, Emotion Regulation, and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents: Direct and Indirect Relationships

Machado, Mariana Rodrigues; Mosmann, Clarisse Pereira

doi:10.1590/1982-4327e3004

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“…Alternatively, the emotional security hypothesis ( Davies and Martin, 2013 ) postulates that triangulation of the child, the key characteristic of competitive coparenting, may be particularly emotionally threatening to the child, resulting in increased emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and attention problems. This may, in turn, contribute to the later development of aggression and externalizing problems ( Machado and Mosmann, 2020 ). This has been confirmed in recent studies that found strong associations between competitive coparenting, characterized by triangulation of the child, and children’s later development of externalizing problems from early to middle childhood ( Murphy et al, 2016 ) and from middle childhood to adolescence ( Riina and McHale, 2014 ; Machado and Mosmann, 2020 ).…”

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“…This may, in turn, contribute to the later development of aggression and externalizing problems ( Machado and Mosmann, 2020 ). This has been confirmed in recent studies that found strong associations between competitive coparenting, characterized by triangulation of the child, and children’s later development of externalizing problems from early to middle childhood ( Murphy et al, 2016 ) and from middle childhood to adolescence ( Riina and McHale, 2014 ; Machado and Mosmann, 2020 ). Moreover, when competitive coparenting, coparenting conflict, negative affect in coparenting, and low cooperative coparenting were simultaneously entered into a model to predict children’s development of externalizing symptoms in middle childhood, only competitive coparenting remained as a significant predictor of externalizing symptoms ( Murphy et al, 2016 ).…”

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Fathers’ Sensitivity in Infancy and Externalizing Problems in Middle Childhood: The Role of Coparenting

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The present study examined the role of father sensitivity and couple coparenting quality in the first 2 years of life in relation to the development of externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood, focusing on the unique role of fathers. In this study, 125 mothers, fathers, and their first-born children were followed from 8 months to age 7 years. Paternal sensitivity was rated when infants were 8 and 24 months old. Fathers were videotaped at home playing, feeding, and changing their 8-month-old infants’ clothes. They also were videotaped in a lab playing with their 24-month-olds and solving a variety of challenging tasks. At 24 months, competitive coparenting was assessed via videotaped triadic family interactions at home in which families participated in a variety of tasks (i.e., clothes change, eating a snack together and solving tasks). Teachers rated externalizing behavior problems when the children were age 7. Continuity in paternal sensitivity was documented from 8 to 24 months, and paternal sensitivity at 8 months predicted externalizing behavior in middle childhood through father sensitivity at 24 months. Moreover, paternal sensitivity at 8 months predicted competitive coparenting which, in turn, forecast externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood, even after controlling for maternal sensitivity at 8 and 24 months. These findings highlight the unique role of paternal caregiving quality during the first year of life on couple coparenting and children’s subsequent development of externalizing problems and have implications for creating effective interventions to prevent children from developing externalizing disorders.

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