Family process: Early child emotionality,parenting stress,and couple relationship quality |
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| Authors: | M. BLAKE BERRYHILL KRISTY L. SOLOSKI JARED A. DURTSCHI REBEKAH REYES ADAMS |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The University of Alabama;2. Texas Tech University;3. Kansas State University;4. Family Service and Guidance Center |
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| Abstract: | Guided by family systems theory, we used couple data (N = 1,778) from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the link between perceived infant negative emotionality, parenting stress, and couple relationship quality when the child was 1, 3, and 5 years. Using a latent actor–partner interdependence model, we tested dyadic direct and indirect effects for married and cohabiting couples. Parents who reported higher levels of perceived infant negative emotionality at age 1 had higher parenting stress at age 3. Mothers' and fathers' parenting stress at age 3 predicted lower levels of their own couple relationship quality and their partner's relationship quality at age 5. Parenting stress mediated the relation between perceived infant emotionality and couple relationship quality. |
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