Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Fam Process. 2018 Jun;57(2):462-476. doi: 10.1111/famp.12290. Epub 2017 Apr 24.
Children's exposure to coparenting conflict has important implications for their developmental functioning, yet limited work has focused on such processes in families with diverse structures or ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds. This longitudinal study examined the processes by which Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' coparenting conflict with their 3-year-old children's grandmothers and biological fathers (N = 133 families) were linked to children's academic and social skills at 5 years of age, and whether children's effortful control at 4 years of age mediated the link between coparenting conflict and indices of children's academic readiness. Findings revealed that adolescent mothers' coparenting conflict with their child's biological father was linked to indices of children's academic and social school readiness through children's effortful control among girls, but not boys, whereas conflict with grandmothers was directly linked to boys' and girls' social functioning 2 years later. Findings offer information about different mechanisms by which multiple coparenting units in families of adolescent mothers are related to their children's outcomes, and this work has important implications for practitioners working with families of adolescent mothers.
儿童暴露于父母冲突中对其发展功能有重要影响，但很少有研究关注具有不同结构或族裔和文化背景的家庭中的这些过程。本纵向研究考察了墨西哥裔青少年母亲与 3 岁孩子的祖母和生父之间的父母冲突（N=133 个家庭）与 5 岁时儿童学业和社交技能之间的关系，以及儿童在 4 岁时的努力控制是否在父母冲突与儿童学业准备指数之间起到中介作用。研究结果表明，青少年母亲与孩子生父之间的父母冲突通过女孩的努力控制与儿童的学业和社会学校准备指数相关，但与祖母的冲突与男孩和女孩 2 年后的社交功能直接相关。研究结果提供了有关青少年母亲家庭中多个父母单位与其孩子结果相关的不同机制的信息，这对于与青少年母亲家庭合作的从业者具有重要意义。
