Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.
Appetite. 2022 Jan 1;168:105757. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105757. Epub 2021 Oct 13.
The current study is the first to examine mothers' and fathers' perceptions of mealtime-specific daily coparenting support from their partner. We investigated relations between parents' reports of mealtime-specific coparenting support, global coparenting support, and discrepancies in parents' controlling feeding practices. One-hundred families (67 participating partners) of 3- to 5-year-old children participated. Parents reported daily on coparenting support and feeding practices for seven consecutive days. Preliminary analyses pooling across the week were conducted using correlations, t-tests, and analyses of variance. Although parents' perceptions of global coparenting and mealtime-specific coparenting support were correlated, both mothers and fathers perceived less coparenting support at mealtime than overall in their parenting role. When partners were present at the dinnertime meal, parents perceived greater mealtime coparenting support and mothers also perceived greater global coparenting support from fathers compared to when partners were not present. Using a subsample of families where both mothers and fathers were present at the dinner meal, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze daily behaviors. These models showed significant daily variability in mothers' mealtime-specific coparenting support from fathers. Fathers' mealtime coparenting support from mothers did not vary day-to-day. On days when mothers perceived greater global coparenting support from their partners, mothers also perceived greater mealtime support. After accounting for the main effects of mothers' and fathers' pressure and restriction, on days when parents reported greater discrepancies between their pressuring feeding practices, mothers perceived less mealtime coparenting support than usual. Results suggest that mealtimes are a challenging context for interparental teamwork, particularly for mothers who receive inconsistent support day-to-day.
本研究首次考察了父母对其伴侣在特定用餐时间提供的具体日常共同养育支持的看法。我们研究了父母对特定用餐时间的共同养育支持、整体共同养育支持以及父母在喂养实践中的控制行为差异之间的关系。100 个家庭（67 名参与伴侣）的 3-5 岁儿童参与了研究。父母在一周内连续 7 天报告了共同养育支持和喂养实践情况。通过相关分析、t 检验和方差分析对整个星期进行了初步分析。尽管父母对整体共同养育和特定用餐时间共同养育支持的看法相关，但母亲和父亲都认为他们在养育角色中的用餐时间的共同养育支持比整体上要少。当伴侣在晚餐时在场时，父母认为用餐时的共同养育支持更大，母亲也认为来自父亲的整体共同养育支持更大，而当伴侣不在场时则不然。我们使用了一个父母双方都在晚餐时在场的家庭样本，使用对偶多层模型来分析日常行为。这些模型显示了母亲从父亲那里获得的特定用餐时间的共同养育支持的显著日常变化。父亲在用餐时间对母亲的共同养育支持没有每天变化。当母亲认为从伴侣那里获得更多的整体共同养育支持时，母亲也认为在吃饭时间得到了更多的支持。在考虑了母亲和父亲的压力和限制的主要效应后，在父母报告其施压喂养行为差异较大的日子里，母亲比平时感知到的用餐时间的共同养育支持更少。研究结果表明，用餐时间对父母间的团队合作是一个具有挑战性的环境，尤其是对于每天得到不一致支持的母亲而言。
