Does Dyadic Coping Predict Couples’ Postpartum Psychosocial Adjustment? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study

Alves, Stephanie; Fonseca, Ana; Canavarro, Maria Cristina; Pereira, Marco

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.561091

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“…We do acknowledge that there were some demographic differences across caregiving context (i.e., more White caregivers but fewer caregivers with a 4-year college degree or higher in the rare disease caregiving group compared to the typically developing group); however, none of these variables were related to we-talk. These links within the typically developing group are consistent with some past research that suggests a similar interpersonal coping theory-dyadic coping-is associated with better caregiver outcomes such as quality of life postpartum (Alves et al, 2020) and enhanced relationship quality among couples (Molgora et al, 2019) during the transition to parenthood. Consistent with the chronic illness literature though, these past studies focus on romantic partner dyads not broader family networks.…”

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“…In contrast to these caregivers of medically fragile children, the comparison group consists of caregivers of typically developing children. Parenting in general is associated with a host of stressors and thus may also serve as an important context in which to study communal coping processes (e.g., Alves et al, 2020). Importantly though, this study examines whether any links of we-talk to network or health outcomes generalize across stressor context or if links are dependent on context—either the unique stress associated with caring for a medically fragile child or the more normative stress associated with parenting in general.…”

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Links of we-talk to caregiver social network systems and health.

Zajdel¹,

Davidson²,

Lea³

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Psychology

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Caring for a child, particularly one with a rare disease, presents a challenging set of stressors that can impact entire family networks. Given this shared impact, caregivers can engage in communal coping to address the caregiving process, defined as the perception of caregiving as shared and collaborative behaviors to address it. In this study, we examined one common measure of communal coping—first person plural pronouns or “we-talk”—in caregivers of either (a) children with rare or undiagnosed diseases or (b) typically developing children. We sought to examine how we-talk is linked to (a) caregiver health and well-being and (b) social network involvement in caregiving. Caregivers (n = 311) participated in (a) survey questionnaires (b) a network enumeration interview and (c) a semistructured interview of caregiving. Results indicated we-talk was unrelated to stress or self-rated health, but was linked to more benefit-finding; greater individual-focused language (I-talk) was also linked to worse self-rated health. Additionally, we-talk was unrelated to malfeasant behavior (e.g., overly critical), but was linked to less nonfeasant behavior (e.g., underinvolvement), more uplift behavior (e.g., helping with caregiving), and more health-related communication with network members. Further, these findings did not differ across caregiving context. This work highlights the role of communal coping for caregivers managing general parenting stress as well as the stress associated with caring for a child with complex medical needs. Future research should continue to examine how interpersonal coping processes operate within social networks to impact health and well-being for all involved.

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Links of we-talk to caregiver social network systems and health.

Zajdel¹,

Davidson²,

Lea³

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…While some couples reported that the TTP led them to work better together as a team (Gotowka, 2020), also opposite findings of a negative impact of TTP on couples’ DC were reported, indicating that over the TTP, positive DC declined and negative DC increased for one or both partners (Rauch-Anderegg et al, 2020). In another study, both partners reported a decrease of common DC (Alves et al, 2020b). There seemed to be differences between first-time parents and experienced parents.…”

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“…The importance of these facets of DC also became evident in the current review in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Common DC was repeatedly found to be beneficial for the couples' relationship (Alves et al, 2020b;Canzi et al, 2019;Molgora et al, 2019) when dealing with child-related stress. Furthermore, in qualitative studies, couples reported different adaptive forms of DC, mainly emotion-focused DC, that seemed to be important, such as mutual empathic understanding (Arruda-Colli et al, 2018;Hiefner, 2020;Nicholls & Ayers, 2007), helping each other to reframe the event and expressing solidarity (Arruda-Colli et al, 2018), sharing feelings (Arruda-Colli et al, 2018;Hiefner, 2020), as well as communication and sharing time together (Brown, Whiting, Haque, et al, 2020).…”

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Couples’ dyadic coping in the context of child-related stressors: A systematic review across three decades.

Roth¹,

Weitkamp²,

Landolt³

et al. 2024

Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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The relevance of dyadic coping (DC), a concept how couples cope with stressors together, has been established in different contexts (e.g., daily hassles, mental and physical health) and is related to different outcomes such as relationship satisfaction, relationship quality and stability, psychological well-being, and child behavior. The current systematic review aims at providing an integration of the field of research on couple’s DC with child-related stressors which are understood as demands that arise for couples due to becoming or being parents. DC and related search terms were used for the literature search in PsycINFO, Psyndex, and Medline. We included 55 publications (reporting empirical data on 6,779 couples in total) including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies published between 1990 and 2020. We applied a narrative synthesis approach organizing the results around six identified areas of child-related stressors: pregnancy and transition to parenthood, parenting, child mental health, child disability, child chronic physical illness, and child death. Overall, results show the importance of DC for both individual and relationship functioning in the context of child-related stress. Surprisingly, effects of parental DC on child outcomes remained understudied, although the existing studies yield promising results for child adjustment. In conclusion, adapting a “we”-perspective, mutual understanding and support is of importance not only to overcome the stressor but also to grow together as a couple. As DC plays a significant role for couples to cope in a resilient way when facing child-related stressors it should be more promoted in couple- and family counseling and therapy.

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“…Keywords: Parents, Postnatal, Sense of security, China, Status quo, Influencing factors, Mental health Background The birth of a child will lead to the readjustment of the family system. In this process, parents-to-be may face a series of pressures and challenges, and they may feel anxiety and fearful due to role adaptation, parenting ability, postpartum recovery and so on [1]. Studies have shown that postnatal sense of security plays an important role in the transition to parenthood, postnatal sense of security has also been described as one of the fundamental aspects of the mother's overall postpartum experience, such as facilitating the maintenance of breastfeeding in the early postpartum period [2,3].…”

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Factors Associated with Parents’ Postnatal Sense of Security in China: A Cross-sectional Study

Zeng

Yuan

et al. 2021

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Background: Parents’ postnatal sense of security is very important to the postnatal experience, and has a positive effect on parental role adaptation, the mental health of parents, marital relationship, and the parent-child relationship. This cross-sectional study was conducted to describe the status quo of Chinese parents’ postnatal sense of security within one week after delivery, and identify their related factors. Methods: Participants were recruited through the convenience samples methods in three grade-A tertiary hospitals in China. The Parents’ Postnatal Sense of Security (PPSS), the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Study-New Mother Form (RHDS-NMF) (for mothers), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Zung’s Self-Rating Anxiety (SAS) were administered between October 2020 and January 2021. Descriptive analysis was used to understand the status quo of parents' postnatal sense of security, one-way ANOVA or independent sample t-tests and enter-method multiple linear regression analysis were used to identify the influence factors, Pearson correlation were used to examine the correlation between the total scores of parents’ postnatal sense of security. Results: A total of 204 pairs of parents were recruited into this study. The mean total score on the mothers’ version of PPSS was 59.67 (SD = 7.95) and fathers’ version of PPSS was 42.91(SD = 5.18), Multiple linear regression analysis showed that factors of mothers’ postnatal sense of security included the relations with husband's parents, length of stay in hospital after delivery, knowledge from health care workers and the Internet, depression, discharge readiness, fathers’ postnatal sense of security, explained 73.3% of the variance (R2 = 0.733, F = 17.125, p < 0.001). Fathers’ postnatal sense of security was significantly associated with parenting confidence, knowledge from health care workers, depression, anxiety, and mothers’ postnatal sense of security, explained 62.7% of the variance (R2 = 0.627, F = 21.092, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The level of parents’ postnatal sense of security was upper-middle among Chinese parents. The study identified factors associated with parents’ postnatal sense of security that could be targeted for intervention to facilitate parents’ postnatal sense of security.

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Does Dyadic Coping Predict Couples’ Postpartum Psychosocial Adjustment? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study

Cited by 16 publications

References 56 publications

Links of we-talk to caregiver social network systems and health.

Links of we-talk to caregiver social network systems and health.

Couples’ dyadic coping in the context of child-related stressors: A systematic review across three decades.

Factors Associated with Parents’ Postnatal Sense of Security in China: A Cross-sectional Study

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