Schoppe-Sullivan Sarah J, Weldon Arielle H, Cook J Claire, Davis Evan F, Buckley Catherine K
Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2009 Jun;50(6):698-706. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.02009.x. Epub 2009 Jan 21.
Temperamental effortful control involves the voluntary control of attention and behavior. Deficits in effortful control put children at risk for developing externalizing behavior problems. Coparenting behavior, or the extent to which parents support or undermine each other's parenting efforts, has also been identified as an important correlate of children's socioemotional adjustment. The present study tested whether coparenting behavior moderated longitudinal relations between preschool children's effortful control and their externalizing behavior.
Ninety-two families (mother, father, 4-year-old child) participated. Parents' coparenting behavior was observed during family interaction, and children's effortful control was rated by parents. At that time and one year later, mothers and teachers reported on children's externalizing behavior.
Supportive coparenting behavior moderated longitudinal relations between children's effortful control and mothers' and teachers' reports of their externalizing behavior, even when taking into account initial levels of externalizing behavior.
Effective coparenting served as a buffer for children, such that when parents displayed high levels of supportive coparenting behavior, the link between low effortful control and increases in externalizing behavior was not observed.
气质性的努力控制涉及对注意力和行为的自愿控制。努力控制方面的缺陷使儿童面临出现外化行为问题的风险。共同养育行为，即父母相互支持或破坏对方养育努力的程度，也被认为是儿童社会情感适应的一个重要相关因素。本研究检验了共同养育行为是否调节了学龄前儿童努力控制与其外化行为之间的纵向关系。
92个家庭（母亲、父亲、4岁孩子）参与了研究。在家庭互动过程中观察父母的共同养育行为，父母对孩子的努力控制进行评分。在当时以及一年后，母亲和教师报告孩子的外化行为。
即使考虑到外化行为的初始水平，支持性的共同养育行为也调节了孩子努力控制与母亲和教师对其外化行为报告之间的纵向关系。
有效的共同养育对孩子起到了缓冲作用，即当父母表现出高水平的支持性共同养育行为时，未观察到低努力控制与外化行为增加之间的联系。
