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Coparenting and children's school readiness: a mediational model.
Cabrera, Natasha J; Scott, Mindy; Fagan, Jay; Steward-Streng, Nicole; Chien, Nicole.
Afiliação
  • Cabrera NJ; Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. ncabrera@umd.edu
Fam Process ; 51(3): 307-24, 2012 Sep.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22984971
We examined the long-term direct and indirect links between coparenting (conflict, communication, and shared decision-making) and preschoolers' school readiness (math, literacy, and social skills). The study sample consisted of 5,650 children and their biological mothers and fathers who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. Using structural equation modeling and controlling for background characteristics, we found that our conceptual model of the pathways from coparenting to child outcomes is structurally the same for cohabiting and married families. Controlling for a host of background characteristics, we found that coparenting conflict and shared decision-making were negatively and positively, respectively, linked to children's academic and social skills and co-parental communication was indirectly linked to academic and social skills through maternal supportiveness. Coparenting conflict was also indirectly linked to children's social skills through maternal depressive symptoms. The overall findings suggest that for both cohabiting and married families, the context of conflicted coparenting may interfere with the development of children's social competencies and academic skills, whereas collaborative coparenting promotes children's school readiness because mothers are more responsive to their children's needs. These findings have implications for programs aimed at promoting positive family processes in cohabiting and married families.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Poder Familiar / Comunicação / Tomada de Decisões / Conflito Familiar / Relações Mãe-Filho Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Infant / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Poder Familiar / Comunicação / Tomada de Decisões / Conflito Familiar / Relações Mãe-Filho Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Infant / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article