Cook J Claire, Schoppe-Sullivan Sarah J, Buckley Catherine K, Davis Evan F
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2009 Aug;23(4):606-10. doi: 10.1037/a0015992.
The current study examined relations between child temperament--specifically, negative emotionality--and parents' supportive and undermining coparenting behavior, and further tested whether marital adjustment moderated relations between child negative affect and coparenting. One-hundred eleven two-parent families with a 4-year old child participated in this study. Parents completed questionnaires to provide information on children's negative affectivity, marital adjustment, and the quality of their coparenting relationships. Furthermore, parents and children participated together in two 10-minute task-oriented interactions that were coded to assess coparenting behavior. As hypothesized, parents of children higher on levels of negative affect demonstrated greater undermining coparenting behavior. In addition, marital adjustment moderated relations between children's negative affect and parents' supportive coparenting behavior. However, contrary to expectations, couples with higher levels of marital adjustment were most vulnerable to effects of child negativity on supportive coparenting. Results suggest that high-quality marital relationships may not buffer the coparenting relationship from the effects of temperamentally difficult preschoolers.
本研究考察了儿童气质（具体而言，消极情绪性）与父母支持性和破坏性行为之间的关系，并进一步检验了婚姻调适是否调节了儿童消极情绪与共同养育行为之间的关系。111个有4岁孩子的双亲家庭参与了本研究。父母填写问卷，提供有关孩子消极情感性、婚姻调适以及他们共同养育关系质量的信息。此外，父母和孩子一起参与了两次10分钟的任务导向互动，这些互动被编码以评估共同养育行为。正如假设的那样，消极情绪水平较高的孩子的父母表现出更多的破坏性行为。此外，婚姻调适调节了孩子消极情绪与父母支持性共同养育行为之间的关系。然而，与预期相反，婚姻调适水平较高的夫妻最容易受到孩子消极情绪对支持性共同养育行为的影响。结果表明，高质量的婚姻关系可能无法缓冲共同养育关系免受气质困难的学龄前儿童的影响。
