RESUMO
This longitudinal prospective and multi-informant study based on a three-wave research program (pregnancy, 12 months' postpartum, and 16 months' postpartum) aimed to determine the process of construction of family alliance, as assessed by the Lausanne Trilogue Play (Fivaz-Depeursinge & Corboz-Warnery, 1999). A model using parents' individual characteristics (i.e., personality traits and attachment orientations) as distal variables, coparenting as a mediator, child's temperament as a moderator, and family alliance as outcome was tested using structural equation modeling on 62 nonreferred families. Results showed that both parents' conscientiousness was positively and mothers' avoidant attachment and fathers' anxious attachment were negatively and indirectly (via coparenting) associated with the family alliance. The discussion underlines mothers' and fathers' different roles and the importance of coparenting as a core mechanism in the development of family alliance.
Assuntos
Relações Familiares/psicologia , Apego ao Objeto , Poder Familiar/psicologia , Pais/psicologia , Personalidade , Adulto , Bélgica , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Jogos e Brinquedos , Gravidez , Estudos Prospectivos , Inquéritos e Questionários , Temperamento , Adulto JovemRESUMO
El Lausanne Trialogue Play (LTP), instrumento que permite la evaluación estandarizada de la alianza familiar, releva la importancia del padre en los estudios de procesos e interacciones familiares, así como la existencia de un efecto familiar tríadico desde etapas tempranas. El presente estudio pretende aportar al conocimiento de la alianza familiar en familias con hijos(as) en edad preescolar, analizando su relación con la salud mental de los padres. 50 parejas parentales y sus hijos(as) fueron evaluadas en sus hogares con una batería de instrumentos que incluían el LTP, BDI-I, PSI-SF y un Cuestionario Sociodemográfico. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría de las familias evaluadas presentan alianzas familiares disfuncionales, sin evidenciarse una relación estadísticamente significativa con las variables de salud mental estudiadas. Sin embargo, se observa una tendencia a que familias con alianzas conflictivas presenten mayores niveles de sintomatología depresiva y estrés parental, sobre todo en el rol paterno.
The Lausanne Trialogue Play (LTP) is an instrument that allows the standardized assessment of the family alliance, highlighting the importance of the father in studies of family process and interactions, as also the existence of a triadic family effect since early stages. The present study pretends to contribute to extend the knowledge in family alliances in families with preschool aged children, analyzing it's relation with the parental mental health variables. 50 parental couples and their children were evaluated at their homes with the following instruments: LTP, BDI-I, PSI-SF and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Results show that most of the families have dysfunctional alliances, without proving a statistically significant relation with the parental studied variables. Nevertheless, families with conflictive alliances tend to show higher levels of depressive symptoms and parental stress, especially in fathers.