Coparental discord and children’s behavior problems: Children’s negative family representations as an explanatory mechanism.

Parry, Lucia Q.; Davies, Patrick T.; Sturge‐Apple, Melissa L.; Coe, Jesse L.

doi:10.1037/fam0000638

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“…As ongoing, intertwined family conflict and mental health problems are difficult to interrupt (Harold & Sellers, 2018; Parry, Davies, Sturge‐Apple, & Coe, 2020), a “scarring” phenomenon could lead to entrenched, long‐term psychological and family relationship difficulties. Assisting families in recovering from the pandemic period may require multi‐component, inter‐disciplinary approaches by schools, counselors, mental health clinicians, pediatricians, family service agencies, faith‐based congregations, and youth‐serving recreational and athletic organizations.…”

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Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

et al. 2021

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To quantify the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and public health interventions on parent and child mental health and family relationships, we examined change in individual and family functioning in a sample of parents enrolled in a prevention trial; we examined change before the pandemic (2017–2019) when children were an average of 7 years old to the first months after the imposition of widespread public health interventions in the United States (2020) with paired t tests and HLM models. We examined moderation by parent gender, education, family income, and coparenting conflict. We found large deteriorations from before the pandemic to the first months of the pandemic in child internalizing and externalizing problems and parent depression, and a moderate decline in coparenting quality. Smaller changes were found for parent anxiety and parenting quality. Mothers and families with lower levels of income were at particular risk for deterioration in well‐being. Results indicate a need for widespread family support and intervention to prevent potential family “scarring,” that is, prolonged, intertwined individual mental health and family relationship problems.

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Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

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“…For instance, children may observe and model their parents' conflict resolution and social skills (Bandura & Walters, 1977). Further, coparenting dynamics may shape children's development via parenting behaviors (Parkes et al, 2019), parent–child relationship quality (Peltz et al, 2018), or children's emotional security (Parry et al, 2020). Indeed, coparenting relationship quality has been consistently associated with children's social–emotional adjustment.…”

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Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

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This study identified coparenting patterns using data collected across 2007-2010 from low-income couples (N = 2915; 26.90% non-Hispanic White; 9.41% non-Hispanic Black; 34.24% Hispanic, 29.27% other or mixed race) with young children (M = 3.65 years; SD = 1.31 years; 48% girls) and examined relations with children's social-emotional adjustment. Latent profile analysis revealed four coparenting patterns: mutual high-quality (43.4%), moderate-quality, mothers less positive (31.8%), moderate-quality, fathers less positive (15.9%), and low-quality, mothers less positive (8.9%). When parents' perspectives on coparenting were positive and congruent, children fared best. Children also fared well when coparenting quality was moderate, and mothers were less positive than fathers. When coparenting quality was moderate and fathers were less positive than mothers, children showed the poorest adjustment.

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“…Even young infants show distress reactions to destructive interparental conflict and experience dysregulation, particularly if they have a history of exposure to interparental conflict (Du Rocher Schudlich et al, 2011). Conflictual coparenting may also increase children’s negative representations of the family, which are, in turn, linked to poorer social-emotional adjustment (Parry et al, 2020). Even in the absence of overt conflict, undermining coparenting may have a detrimental effect on children via compromised parent-child relationships (Caldera & Lindsey, 2006).…”

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Couple, parent, and infant characteristics and perceptions of conflictual coparenting over the transition to parenthood

Schoppe‐Sullivan

Nuttall

Berrigan

2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study examined trajectories of new parents’ perceptions of conflictual coparenting and predictors thereof. Partners in 182 dual-earner different-gender U.S. couples reported their prenatal marital conflict and individual characteristics (conflictual coparenting in the family of origin, parenting self-efficacy expectations, and parenting role beliefs) during the third trimester of pregnancy, their infant’s characteristics (negative affectivity and gender) at 3 months postpartum, and their perceptions of undermining coparenting and exposure to conflict at 3, 6, and 9 months postpartum. Results of latent growth curve models indicated that new parents’ perceptions of undermining, but not exposure to conflict, increased similarly from 3 to 9 months. Fathers perceived higher initial undermining than mothers, but there were no gender differences in exposure to conflict. For mothers, greater prenatal marital conflict and greater infant negative affectivity were associated with elevated levels of perceived undermining and exposure to conflict. For fathers, more egalitarian role beliefs were associated with lower undermining and less exposure to conflict, whereas greater prenatal marital conflict, higher conflictual coparenting in the family of origin, and greater infant negative affectivity were associated with greater exposure to conflict. Fathers also perceived greater undermining and exposure to conflict when mothers reported higher prenatal marital conflict, whereas mothers’ greater conflictual coparenting in the family of origin was related to fathers’ lower exposure to conflict. These findings provide valuable information to strengthen programs focused on improving coparenting.

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Coparental discord and children’s behavior problems: Children’s negative family representations as an explanatory mechanism.

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low‐income families

Couple, parent, and infant characteristics and perceptions of conflictual coparenting over the transition to parenthood

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