University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Infant Behav Dev. 2013 Apr;36(2):210-22. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.001. Epub 2013 Feb 28.
This investigation explored how parent personality and infant temperament were associated with the development and stability of coparenting over the first 3 years of life. We examined the stability of supportive and undermining coparenting from 13 months to 3 years and whether infant difficult temperament moderated the stability of coparenting. We also examined how two dimensions of parent personality, communion and negative emotionality, were directly associated with coparenting quality and how these personality variables interacted with infant difficult temperament in predicting subsequent coparenting quality. Both supportive and undermining coparenting demonstrated moderate stability; however, stability in undermining coparenting was present only for families with less difficult infants. Fathers' communion and negative emotionality were associated with higher and lower coparenting quality, respectively, but only for families with an infant with a more challenging temperament. Mothers' negative emotionality was associated with higher coparenting quality. The results of this study suggest that parents' and children's characteristics are associated in direct and interactive ways with the development of the coparenting relationship across the first few years of a child's life.
本研究探讨了父母个性和婴儿气质如何与亲代养育在生命的头 3 年中的发展和稳定性相关。我们检验了从 13 个月到 3 岁时支持性和破坏性行为的稳定性，以及婴儿的困难气质是否会调节亲代养育的稳定性。我们还研究了父母个性的两个维度，交往和消极情绪，如何直接与亲代养育质量相关，以及这些人格变量如何与婴儿的困难气质相互作用，从而预测随后的亲代养育质量。支持性和破坏性行为都表现出中等程度的稳定性；然而，只有在婴儿不那么困难的家庭中，破坏性行为的稳定性才存在。父亲的交往和消极情绪分别与较高和较低的亲代养育质量相关，但仅在婴儿具有更具挑战性气质的家庭中才如此。母亲的消极情绪与较高的亲代养育质量相关。本研究的结果表明，父母和孩子的特征以直接和交互的方式与孩子生命头几年的亲代养育关系的发展相关。
