Canzi Elena, Donato Silvia, Ferrari Laura, Parise Miriam, Pagani Ariela Francesca, Lopez Giulia, Rosnati Rosa, Ranieri Sonia
Family Studies and Research University Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Department of Psychology, Family Studies and Research University Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2019 Mar 6;10:399. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00399. eCollection 2019.
Becoming an adoptive parent is a particularly stressful transition, given the additional challenges couples have to face. Dyadic coping, an under-investigated dimension in the adoption literature, may play a relevant role for prospective adoptive couples' ability to better cope with the adoptive process. The general aim of the present study was to investigate the association between dyadic coping and relationship functioning, in terms of relationship satisfaction and couple generativity, among prospective adoptive couples. Participants were 103 prospective adoptive couples pursuing international adoption in Italy. Couples were asked to fill in a self-report questionnaire. Results of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model showed that prospective adoptive partners reported high levels of positive and common dyadic coping and low levels of negative dyadic coping - suggesting partners' ability to successfully cope together with a common stressor - a high level of relationship satisfaction, and an average level of couple generativity. Moreover, analyses showed significant actor effects of one's own perception of the partner's dyadic coping (positive, negative, and common) on one's own relationship satisfaction and on couple generativity for both wives and husbands. With regard to partner effects, we found that both partners' perceptions of the other's dyadic coping responses (positive, negative, and common) were associated with the other's relationship satisfaction, with the only exception of wives' perceptions of common dyadic coping, which were not associated with their husbands' relationship satisfaction. As for couple generativity, the only significant partner effect referred to negative dyadic coping responses for both wives and husbands.
成为养父母是一个压力特别大的转变，因为夫妻要面对额外的挑战。二元应对是收养文献中一个研究不足的维度，可能对准收养夫妻更好地应对收养过程的能力发挥相关作用。本研究的总体目标是调查准收养夫妻中二元应对与关系功能之间的关联，关系功能体现在关系满意度和夫妻生育力方面。参与者是103对在意大利寻求跨国收养的准收养夫妻。要求夫妻填写一份自我报告问卷。行为者-伙伴相互依赖模型的结果显示，准收养伴侣报告了高水平的积极和共同二元应对以及低水平的消极二元应对——这表明伴侣有能力共同成功应对共同的压力源——高水平的关系满意度，以及平均水平的夫妻生育力。此外，分析表明，夫妻双方对伴侣二元应对（积极、消极和共同）的自我认知对自己的关系满意度和夫妻生育力有显著的行为者效应。关于伙伴效应，我们发现双方对另一方二元应对反应（积极、消极和共同）的认知都与另一方的关系满意度相关，但妻子对共同二元应对的认知除外，它与丈夫的关系满意度无关。至于夫妻生育力，唯一显著的伙伴效应是夫妻双方对消极二元应对反应的认知。
