Centre for Family Research.
Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University.
J Fam Psychol. 2019 Dec;33(8):905-915. doi: 10.1037/fam0000568. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
The coherence of parents' narratives about their children, which is the extent to which descriptions are accepting, consistent and complex, are thought to reflect optimal information processing of interpersonal relations and as such facilitate sensitive and responsive parenting. However, despite recent meta-analytic findings that have demonstrated links between the nature of prenatal thoughts and feelings about the unborn infant and later parenting, studies have yet to examine the narrative coherence of expectant parents' descriptions of their infant and future parent-child relationship. This study reports on the novel use of the 5-minute speech sample to capture variation in the coherence of 400 first-time expectant parents' narratives describing their unborn infant and future relationship with them. On average, both expectant mothers and fathers struggled to provide a coherent description of their unborn infant. Coherence ratings did not show within-couple associations and were not related to either demographic characteristics, depressive symptoms or mode of conception (e.g., use of assisted reproductive technologies). An actor-partner interdependence model did however demonstrate that reduced couple relationship quality and life satisfaction were associated with lower levels of narrative coherence in fathers, but not mothers. Model constraints illustrated the coherence of expectant fathers' narratives about their infant and future parent-child relationship may be particularly vulnerable to the influence of the couple relationship. Future longitudinal work is needed to establish the direction of this effect, to explore the stability of narrative coherence across the transition to parenthood and to study links with postnatal parent-child interaction quality and child outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
父母对孩子的叙述一致性，即描述的接受程度、一致性和复杂性，被认为反映了人际互动的最佳信息处理能力，从而促进了敏感和响应式的育儿方式。然而，尽管最近的荟萃分析发现，产前对胎儿的想法和感受的本质与后期的育儿方式之间存在联系，但研究尚未检验预期父母对其婴儿和未来亲子关系的描述的叙述一致性。本研究报告了一种新颖的使用 5 分钟演讲样本的方法，以捕捉 400 名首次预期父母对其未出生婴儿的叙述的一致性变化及其未来与他们的关系。平均而言，预期的母亲和父亲都难以对其未出生的婴儿进行连贯的描述。一致性评分没有显示出夫妻之间的关联，也与人口统计学特征、抑郁症状或受孕方式（例如，使用辅助生殖技术）无关。然而，演员-伙伴相互依存模型表明，夫妻关系质量和生活满意度的降低与父亲的叙述一致性水平较低有关，但与母亲无关。模型约束说明了预期父亲对其婴儿和未来亲子关系的叙述一致性可能特别容易受到夫妻关系的影响。未来需要进行纵向研究，以确定这种影响的方向，研究在过渡到父母身份期间叙述一致性的稳定性，并研究与产后亲子互动质量和儿童结果的联系。（心理学文摘数据库记录（c）2019APA，保留所有权利）。
