Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA.
Fam Process. 2010 Mar;49(1):59-73. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01308.x.
As family systems research has expanded, so have investigations into how marital partners coparent together. Although coparenting research has increasingly found support for the influential role of coparenting on both marital relationships and parenting practices, coparenting has traditionally been investigated as part of an indirect system which begins with marital health, is mediated by coparenting processes, and then culminates in each partner's parenting. The field has not tested how this traditional model compares with the equally plausible alternative model, in which coparenting simultaneously predicts both marital relationships and parenting practices. Furthermore, statistical and practical limitations have typically resulted in only one parent being analyzed in these models. This study used model-fitting analyses to include both wives and husbands in a test of these two alternative models of the role of coparenting in the family system. Our data suggested that both the traditional indirect model (marital health to coparenting to parenting practices), and the alternative predictor model where coparenting alliance directly and simultaneously predicts marital health and parenting practices, fit for both spouses. This suggests that dynamic and multiple roles may be played by coparenting in the overall family system, and raises important practical implications for family clinicians.
随着家庭系统研究的扩展，对婚姻伴侣如何共同养育子女的研究也在增加。尽管共同养育研究越来越多地发现共同养育对婚姻关系和育儿实践有影响，但共同养育一直以来都是作为一个间接系统的一部分进行研究的，这个间接系统始于婚姻健康，由共同养育过程介导，最终体现在每个伴侣的育儿方式上。该领域尚未检验这种传统模式与同样合理的替代模式相比如何，在替代模式中，共同养育同时预测婚姻关系和育儿实践。此外，统计和实际限制通常导致这些模型中只分析了一个家长。本研究使用模型拟合分析，在共同养育在家庭系统中的作用的这两种替代模型中同时纳入了妻子和丈夫。我们的数据表明，传统的间接模型（婚姻健康到共同养育到育儿实践）和替代的预测模型（其中共同养育联盟直接且同时预测婚姻健康和育儿实践）都适用于两个配偶。这表明共同养育在整个家庭系统中可能扮演着动态和多重角色，并为家庭临床医生提出了重要的实际意义。
