2018/12/20 by Yunying Le, Steffany J. Fredman, Brandon T. McDaniel +3 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Family Dynamics and Relationships #Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
paper · doi:10.1037/fam0000489
openalex publication_date 2018/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
= 141 dyads) completed daily diaries for 8 consecutive days. An autoregressive cross-lagged model was incorporated within an Actor Partner Interdependence Modeling framework to examine at the daily level: (a) within-person cross-day associations between relationship closeness and coparenting support, (b) cross-partner cross-day associations within relationship closeness and coparenting support, (c) cross-partner cross-day associations between relationship closeness and coparenting support, and (d) gender differences in these associations. Results revealed a prospective, within person bidirectional link between daily relationship closeness and perceived coparenting support for both mothers and fathers. Additionally, an indirect effect from mothers' experiences of coparenting support to fathers' relationship closeness through fathers' experiences of coparenting support was found at the daily level. Findings highlight the interdependent nature of the couple and coparenting relationship at the daily level during the first year of parenthood and suggest that mothers' feeling supported by their coparenting partners may facilitate a "virtuous cycle" between coparenting support and relationship closeness early in the coparenting relationship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).