McDaniel Brandon T, Teti Douglas M, Feinberg Mark E
Illinois State University, Campus Box 5060, Normal, IL 61790.
The Pennsylvania State University, 119 Health and Human Development Bldg., University Park, PA 16802.
J Child Fam Stud. 2017 Sep;26(9):2396-2411. doi: 10.1007/s10826-017-0762-0. Epub 2017 May 8.
We describe the development and validation of the (D-Cop), a measure of parents' perceptions of daily coparenting quality, to address the absence of such a daily measure in the field. A daily measure of coparenting can help us to better identify and optimize specific mechanisms of short-term change in family processes as well as examine within-person variability and processes as they are lived by participants in their everyday lives. Mothers and fathers, from 174 families with at least one child age 5 or younger, completed a 14-day diary study. Utilizing multilevel factor analysis, we identified two daily coparenting factors at both the between- and within-person level: positive and negative daily coparenting. The reliabilities of the overall D-Cop and individual positive and negative subscales were good, and we found that parents' reports of coparenting quality fluctuated on a daily basis. Also, we established the initial validity of the D-Cop, as scores related as expected to (a) an existing and already validated measure of coparenting and to (b) couple relationship quality, depressive symptoms, and child behavior problems. Further, fluctuations in daily couple relationship feelings related to fluctuations in daily coparenting quality. The D-Cop and its subscales functioned almost identically when only utilizing 7 days of data instead of 14 days. We call for future work to study day-by-day fluctuations and dynamics of coparenting to better illuminate family processes that lead to child and family outcomes in order to improve the efficacy of family interventions.
我们描述了“日常共同养育感知量表”（D-Cop）的开发与验证过程，该量表用于衡量父母对日常共同养育质量的感知，以填补该领域缺乏此类日常测量工具的空白。日常共同养育测量工具能够帮助我们更好地识别和优化家庭过程中短期变化的具体机制，还能考察参与者在日常生活中的个体内变异性及相关过程。来自174个至少有一个5岁及以下孩子家庭的父母完成了一项为期14天的日记研究。利用多水平因素分析，我们在个体间和个体内层面均识别出两个日常共同养育因素：积极的日常共同养育和消极的日常共同养育。D-Cop总量表以及个体积极和消极分量表的信度良好，我们发现父母对共同养育质量的报告每天都有波动。此外，我们确立了D-Cop的初步效度，因为其得分与（a）现有的且已验证的共同养育测量工具以及（b）夫妻关系质量、抑郁症状和儿童行为问题的预期相关。此外，日常夫妻关系感受的波动与日常共同养育质量的波动相关。仅使用7天数据而非14天数据时，D-Cop及其分量表的功能几乎相同。我们呼吁未来开展研究，探讨共同养育的每日波动和动态变化，以更好地阐明导致儿童和家庭结果的家庭过程，从而提高家庭干预的效果。
