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Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development 5/2016

30-10-2015 | Original Article

Typologies of Post-divorce Coparenting and Parental Well-Being, Parenting Quality and Children’s Psychological Adjustment

Auteurs: Diogo Lamela, Bárbara Figueiredo, Alice Bastos, Mark Feinberg

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 5/2016

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify post-divorce coparenting profiles and examine whether these profiles differentiate between levels of parents’ well-being, parenting practices, and children’s psychological problems. Cluster analysis was conducted with Portuguese heterosexual divorced parents (N = 314) to yield distinct post-divorce coparenting patterns. Clusters were based on parents’ self-reported coparenting relationship assessed along four dimensions: agreement, exposure to conflict, undermining/support, and division of labor. A three cluster solution was found and replicated. Parents in the high-conflict coparenting group exhibited significantly lower life satisfaction, as well as significantly higher divorce-related negative affect and inconsistent parenting than parents in undermining and cooperative coparenting clusters. The cooperative coparenting group reported higher levels of positive family functioning and lower externalizing and internalizing problems in their children. These results suggested that a positive coparenting alliance may be a protective factor for individual and family outcomes after parental divorce.
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Original CRS-Brief also entails an additional subscale labeled as ‘Coparenting Closeness’. Items of this subscale were not included in this study since they do no assess any coparenting component of the Feinberg’s ecological model [14] and they are not applicable to divorced coparents either.
 
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Since age differences may be expected, we divided the overall sample into two subsamples based on children’s age: 4-10 years subsample (N = 96) and 11-16 year-old subsample (N = 218). After running the three-cluster solution separately on the two subsamples, all significant and non-significant results found on both subsamples replicated those obtained in the overall sample in the associations between coparenting profiles and the outcomes variables (parents’ psychological adjustment, parenting, family functioning, and children’s psychological adjustment).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Typologies of Post-divorce Coparenting and Parental Well-Being, Parenting Quality and Children’s Psychological Adjustment
Auteurs
Diogo Lamela
Bárbara Figueiredo
Alice Bastos
Mark Feinberg
Publicatiedatum
30-10-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 5/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-015-0604-5

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