Quality of coparenting and infant-mother attachment: The mediating role of maternal emotional availability.

ABSTRACT: Increasing attention has been paid to the influence of family contextual factors in predicting infant attachment security. However, little is known about the influence of coparenting quality on attachment. The goal of the present study was to examine the associations among parental perceptions of coparenting quality, quality of mothering (as indexed by maternal emotional availability), and infant-mother attachment. Parental reports of positive and negative coparenting quality, maternal emotional availability, and infant-mother attachment were assessed in 152 infants and their parents at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postpartum. Direct and indirect effects were assessed within a structural equation modeling framework to examine: (a) direct effects of mother-reported coparenting on infant-mother

SUBMITTER: Kim CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8478852 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature