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ERIC Number: EJ1013152
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Apr
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0192-513X
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Associations among Marital Qualities, Supportive and Undermining Coparenting, and Parenting Self-Efficacy: Testing Spillover and Stress-Buffering Processes
Merrifield, Kami A.; Gamble, Wendy C.
Journal of Family Issues, v34 n4 p510-533 Apr 2013
This study examined associations among marital quality, coparenting, and parenting self-efficacy in parents of young children. Of special interest were possible spillover and stress-buffering effects of the marital and coparenting relationships. The authors sampled 175 married and cohabiting couples. Participants were recruited via an online marketing company and completed surveys on the project's website. Maintenance strategies were associated with higher parenting self-efficacy for mothers and fathers, and for mothers, their spouse's reports of his own maintenance behaviors were associated with increased parenting self-efficacy. Undermining coparenting predicted lower parenting self-efficacy for mothers and fathers. There was support for the spillover and stress-buffering hypotheses as evidenced by significant interactions between marital qualities and coparenting predicting to parenting self-efficacy. Findings support a connection between marital and coparenting subsystems; whereby, positivity in one of these relationships can interact to buffer the effects of negativity in the other to maintain or increase parenting self-efficacy. (Contains 4 tables and 4 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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