Bennet Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State University.
Department of Human Development and Family Science, Illinois State University.
Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. 2019 Mar;84(1):18-34. doi: 10.1111/mono.12404. Epub 2019 Apr 29.
To understand new fathers' experiences and well-being, we examine links between fathers and their partners' replenishing and stressful daily experiences-exercise, sleep, work, chores, general stress, and parenting stress-and their own and their partners' well-being and family relations. Fathers and mothers of ten-month old infants (N=143/140 mothers/fathers) in the U.S. reported on daily experiences for eight consecutive days. Results of multilevel models indicated that more replenishing and fewer stressful daily experiences were generally linked to more parent happiness, better couple relations, and greater closeness with the infant. Several gender differences also emerged that may reflect different stress and coping processes or different social roles for mothers and fathers; most striking was that on days that fathers spent more time on chores, mothers reported greater couple closeness but fathers reported more arguments. This exploration of new parents' daily experiences demonstrates the value of the method to generate intervention-relevant insights, as well as the importance of examining fathers' (and mothers') experiences in the context of couple-level dynamics.
为了了解新父亲的经历和幸福感，我们研究了父亲及其伴侣的补充性和压力性日常体验（锻炼、睡眠、工作、家务、一般压力和育儿压力）与他们自身和伴侣的幸福感和家庭关系之间的联系。美国十个月大婴儿的父母（N=143/140 位母亲/父亲）连续八天报告了日常经历。多层次模型的结果表明，更多的补充性和更少的压力性日常体验通常与父母的幸福感更高、夫妻关系更好以及与婴儿的亲密程度更高有关。还出现了一些性别差异，这可能反映了母亲和父亲的不同压力和应对过程，或者不同的社会角色；最引人注目的是，在父亲花更多时间做家务的日子里，母亲报告说夫妻关系更亲密，但父亲报告说争吵更多。对新父母日常经历的探索表明，这种方法对于产生干预相关的见解具有价值，同时也表明了在夫妻关系动态的背景下考察父亲（和母亲）经历的重要性。
