Coparenting and parenting pathways from the couple relationship to children's behavior problems.

ABSTRACT: Although an extensive literature has linked couple conflict with the development of children's externalizing behavior problems, longer term protective effects of positive dimensions of couple relationships on children's externalizing behavior remain understudied, particularly in relation to underlying mechanisms. Supportiveness in the dyadic couple relationship may enhance mothers' and fathers' individual parenting skills and protect against children's behavior problems, but the contribution of coparenting (couples' support for one another's individual parenting) remains unclear. This observational study investigated associations between couple supportiveness in children's infancy and middle childhood externalizing problems, exploring pathways involving coparenting and/or mothers' and fath

SUBMITTER: Parkes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6388648 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature