Parenting Outcomes and Predictors of Parenting Satisfaction in the Early Postpartum Period

Shorey, Shefaly; Lau, Ying; Klainin‐Yobas, Piyanee

doi:10.1177/0193945920914593

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“…Schoppe-Sullivan, Settle, Lee, and Kamp Dush (2016) reported that greater perceived supportive coparenting was associated with less parenting stress for new fathers, and with greater parenting satisfaction for fathers with high parenting self-efficacy. Similarly, a study of Singaporean families in the early postpartum period showed that support from partners was associated with both mothers' and fathers' higher parenting satisfaction (Shorey, Ying, & Yobas, 2020). Thus, we anticipated that new fathers who perceived greater gate-opening and less gate-closing behavior from mothers would be more satisfied and less stressed as parents.…”

Section: Family Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

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This study examined predictors of new fathers' parenting satisfaction and stress using data from 182 fathers in dual-earner couples who were followed across their transition to parenthood. Expectant fathers completed surveys about their personal characteristics (anxiety, belief in maternal essentialism, parenting self-efficacy expectations) and family relationships (confidence in the couple relationship) during the third trimester of pregnancy. At 3 months postpartum, fathers completed surveys about their family relationships (maternal gatekeeping) and child characteristics (infant negative emotionality, infant gender), as well as their parenting satisfaction and stress. Results of regression analyses indicated that expectant fathers with greater parenting selfefficacy expectations reported less parenting stress and greater satisfaction at 3 months postpartum. More anxious expectant fathers were at risk of experiencing elevated levels of parenting stress postpartum, as were fathers with lower endorsement of maternal essentialism and infants highly negative in mood. Fathers were more satisfied in their roles as parents when mothers engaged in greater gate-opening behavior, particularly when those fathers expressed less confidence in their couple relationships prior to their child's birth. Results indicate the importance of screening expectant and new fathers for anxiety, strengthening expectant fathers' parenting self-efficacy, and encouraging greater maternal support for engaged fathering.

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Section: Family Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

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“…Evidence from both HICs and LMICs also documents a protective effect against common perinatal mental health disorders in women [12,13]. Key mechanisms implicated in improving maternal and child health (MCH) are thought to be alleviating women's stress [11,14], facilitating their use of skilled antenatal (ANC), postnatal (PNC) and intrapartum care [15,16], and enabling them to adopt healthy lifestyles, for example, by reducing cigarette smoke [17]. The dynamics of social support by male partners may vary, including between HICs and LMICs; however, fostering their supportive role is important across the world.…”

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Male partner participation in maternity care and social support for childbearing women: a discussion paper

Daniele

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Male partners/fathers are key support persons for many childbearing women and their involvement in pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum/postnatal period has beneficial effects on a wide range of outcomes related to maternal and child health and family wellbeing. Social support is implicated in the relevant causal pathway, but has received largely tangential attention in the public health literature. This discussion paper aims to reframe men's participation in maternity care as an opportunity to enhance their readiness and ability to provide social support to women, contributing to the debate on the definition and rationale for male partner involvement, and paving the way for further empirical work. I begin by presenting a theory of change illustrating the causal pathway leading from male partner participation, through the key intermediate step of social support, to improved health and wellbeing for women and children. I proceed by arguing that many people desire male partner participation in maternity care; however, in practice, this is often limited owing to cultural, social and institutional barriers. I use examples from the intervention literature to demonstrate how participation in care can boost men's motivation to support women and enhance their ability to do so by increasing their knowledge and skills. Finally, I draw up general implications for further male partner involvement programmes, suggesting that in order to achieve meaningful and sustainable gains, attention to design is crucial in order to avoid reinforcing patriarchal gender norms. Programmes should be implemented alongside other efforts to improve quality and promote woman-centred care. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Multidisciplinary perspectives on social support and maternal–child health’.

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“…This was done to compare the proportion of infants in each group who fell into the at-risk category for each domain. Established correlations between the main outcomes and covariates based on previous studies [36,37] were used to determine which covariates were needed to be statistically corrected for.…”

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Evaluating the Effects of the Supportive Parenting App on Infant Developmental Outcomes: Longitudinal Study

Shorey¹,

Chong²,

Shi³

et al. 2023

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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Background Previous studies have investigated the various effects of parenting on infant developmental outcomes. In particular, parental stress and social support have been found to significantly affect the growth of the newborn. Although many parents today use mobile apps to obtain more support in parenting and perinatal care, few studies have examined how these apps could affect infant development. Objective This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the Supportive Parenting App (SPA) in improving infant developmental outcomes during the perinatal period. Methods This study adopted a 2-group parallel prospective longitudinal design and recruited 200 infants and their parents (N=400 mothers and fathers). The parents were recruited at 24 weeks of gestation for a randomized controlled trial conducted from February 2020 to July 2022. They were randomly allocated to either the intervention or control group. The infant outcome measures included cognition, language, motor skills, and social-emotional development. Data were collected from the infants when they were aged 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months. Linear and modified Poisson regressions were used to analyze the data to examine between- and within-group changes. Results At 9 and 12 months post partum, the infants in the intervention group were found to have better communication and language skills than those in the control group. An analysis of motor development revealed that a larger proportion of the infants in the control group fell under the at-risk category, where they scored approximately 2 SDs below the normative scores. The control group infants scored higher on the problem solving domain at 6 months post partum. However, at 12 months postpartum, the infants in the intervention group performed better on cognitive tasks than those in the control group. Despite not being statistically significant, the intervention group infants were found to have consistently scored better on the social components of the questionnaires than the control group infants. Conclusions Overall, the infants whose parents had received the SPA intervention tended to fare better in most developmental outcome measures than those whose parents had received standard care only. The findings of this study suggest that the SPA intervention exerted positive effects on the communication, cognition, motor, and socioemotional development of the infants. Further research is needed to improve the content and support provided by the intervention to maximize the benefits gained by infants and their parents. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04706442; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04706442

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Parenting Outcomes and Predictors of Parenting Satisfaction in the Early Postpartum Period

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

Male partner participation in maternity care and social support for childbearing women: a discussion paper

Evaluating the Effects of the Supportive Parenting App on Infant Developmental Outcomes: Longitudinal Study

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