Blandon Alysia Y, Scrimgeour Meghan B, Stifter Cynthia A, Buss Kristin A
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
J Fam Psychol. 2014 Feb;28(1):106-11. doi: 10.1037/a0035266. Epub 2013 Dec 23.
Coparenting, the coordination between adults in their parental roles, contributes to the functioning of multiple family subsystems. The ecological context model of coparenting posits that multiple factors, including contextual, marital, and child characteristics, influence coparenting behavior (Feinberg, 2003). To date, coparenting has primarily been considered a between-family construct, and the focus has been on examining the factors that account for differences in coparenting across families. There is very limited research exploring variations in coparenting within-families across contexts. To address this gap, the current study explores whether there is significant within- and between-family variation in coparenting. In addition, family, marital, and child correlates of both within- and between-family variation in coparenting are examined. Fifty-eight 2-parent families, drawn from a larger ongoing longitudinal study on children's emotional development, participated in this study. Parents and their children participated in a laboratory visit when children were 42-months-old that included 3 triadic family interaction tasks that were coded to assess cooperative and competitive coparenting, as well as child-centered behavior. In addition, children completed a computerized go/no-go task to assess their inhibitory control and parents completed questionnaires about their marital relationship quality. Results indicated that a substantial portion of the variance in coparenting occurred within families. In addition, the correlates of coparenting cooperation and competition differed.
共同养育，即成年人在其父母角色中的协调，有助于多个家庭子系统的运作。共同养育的生态背景模型假定，包括背景、婚姻和孩子特征在内的多种因素会影响共同养育行为（范伯格，2003年）。迄今为止，共同养育主要被视为一种家庭间的结构，重点一直在于研究导致不同家庭间共同养育差异的因素。探索家庭内部不同情境下共同养育差异的研究非常有限。为了填补这一空白，本研究探讨了共同养育在家庭内部和家庭之间是否存在显著差异。此外，还考察了共同养育在家庭内部和家庭之间差异的家庭、婚姻和孩子相关因素。从一项正在进行的关于儿童情感发展的大型纵向研究中抽取的58个双亲家庭参与了本研究。当孩子42个月大时，父母及其孩子参加了一次实验室访问，其中包括3项三人家庭互动任务，这些任务经过编码以评估合作性和竞争性共同养育以及以孩子为中心的行为。此外，孩子们完成了一项电脑化的“是/否”任务以评估他们的抑制控制能力，父母则完成了关于他们婚姻关系质量的问卷调查。结果表明，共同养育差异的很大一部分存在于家庭内部。此外，共同养育合作与竞争的相关因素也有所不同。
