Embedded parenting? The influence of conjugal networks on parent–child relationships

Widmer, Éric; Goff, Jean‐Marie Le; Levy, René; Hammer, Raphaël; Kellerhals, Jean

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“…Therefore, from their perspective, participants are under the care and scrutiny of a large number of interconnected family members from older generations. Intergenerational closure can have a positive influence on adolescent development (Furstenberg & Hughes, 1995), however, dense sets of kin relationships may have negative consequences such as amoral familism (Banfield, 1958), family interference (Johnson & Milardo, 1984;Widmer, Legoff, Hammer, Kellerhals, & Levy, 2006) or family overcare (Pyke & Bengston, 1996). Therefore, binding social capital within families may sometimes be detrimental to individual adaptation outside the family.…”

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Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations

Widmer

2006

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study tests the hypothesis that individuals' identification of family members has an impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of college students from three universities in Switzerland (N = 229), provided evidence that seven typical family configurations coexist. These configurations vary with respect to the importance given to partnerships, friendships, stepparents and parents' relatives. Family configurations based on blood connections provide a 'binding' type of social capital, that is, densely connected family networks with low individual centrality, whereas family configurations based on friendship provide a 'bridging' type of social capital, that is, sparsely connected family networks with high individual centrality. Postdivorce family configurations are associated with neither type of social capital. KEY WORDS: divorce • family networks • family network method (FNM) • kinship • remarriage • social capitalIn recent decades, family and relationship scholars documented the emergence of significant family configurations that cannot be circumscribed by a household or a limited set of family roles (for a review, see Widmer, 1999a). Little empirical research, however, focused on how people identify Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations

Widmer

2006

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…By contrast, other work failed to find this expected associations (e.g., Ceballo & McLoyd, ). A possible explanation of these differences has been provided by the buffer hypothesis (Widmer, Le Goff, Levy, Hammer & Kellerhals, ) according to which social support may positively affect mental health, by buffering the negative effect of the stress, only under disadvantaged conditions. For example, mothers of preterm infants who benefit from a high level of social support in stressful circumstances, exhibit the most favorable patterns of parenting (Smith et al ., ).…”

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The transmission of attachment across generations: The state of art and new theoretical perspectives

Sette

Coppola

Cassibba

2015

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The paper reviews the body of research testing the intergenerational transmission of attachment and the theoretical shift from the linear or mediation model (van IJzendoorn, 1995), according to which parental sensitivity is the main factor responsible for the correspondence between maternal and infant's attachment, to the ecological model of the transmission of attachment (van IJzendoorn & Bakermans-Kranenburg, 1997). This latter model has prompted researchers, over time, to identify potential mediators, other than caregiver's sensitivity, of the established association between parental representations regarding attachment and infant's attachment, as well as the potential moderators of the transmission process. Each of these two research domains will be carefully explored; lastly new perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of attachment and relevant areas of research needing more investigation are highlighted.

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“…employment, which plays a central role in father involvement and thus in coparenting). This broadening of the focus is legitimized by sociological studies that have demonstrated the influence of social variables on the quality of interactions in the family (Cochran & Niego, ; Widmer, Le Goff, Hammer, Kellerhals, & Levy, ). Although our study results suggest the importance of these broader variables, we did not assess them; further studies are thus needed to highlight the social determinants of parental cognitions.…”

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Sense of Competence and Beliefs About Parental Roles in Mothers and Fathers as Predictors of Coparenting and Child Engagement in Mother–Father–Infant Triadic Interactions

Favez

Tissot

Stiefel

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Infant and Child Development

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The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which a sense of competence and beliefs about parental roles in mothers and fathers influence coparenting and child engagement in triadic interactions during the first 2 years of the child's life, after other influential variables such as marital satisfaction and postpartum depression have been controlled for. The sample constituted 69 mother–father–infant families, whose sense of competence, beliefs in parental roles, postpartum depression, and marital satisfaction were assessed in our laboratory at 3, 9, and 18 months with self‐reported questionnaires. Coparenting support and conflict and child engagement were assessed with the Lausanne Trilogue Play. Results show that (i) predictors of coparenting and child engagement are not the same at each time point; (ii) a sense of competence in mothers is positively linked with coparenting support, particularly at 3 months, whereas in fathers, it is negatively linked with support, particularly at 18 months; (iii) discrepancies between mothers and fathers in beliefs about the importance of the mother's role is the main predictor of coparenting conflict at 18 months; and (iv) paternal beliefs about the importance of the father's and mother's roles are the main predictor of child engagement at 18 months. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Embedded parenting? The influence of conjugal networks on parent–child relationships

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations

Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations

The transmission of attachment across generations: The state of art and new theoretical perspectives

Sense of Competence and Beliefs About Parental Roles in Mothers and Fathers as Predictors of Coparenting and Child Engagement in Mother–Father–Infant Triadic Interactions

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