Factors Linked with Coparenting Support and Conflict After Divorce |
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| Authors: | Raymond E Petren Anthony J Ferraro Taylor R Davis Kay Pasley |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University Worthington, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA;2. Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA;3. Department of Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA |
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| Abstract: | We examined the relationship between personal and interpersonal indicators of postdivorce adjustment and dimensions of coparenting (support, overt conflict, covert conflict) using data from 176 recently divorced mothers. Mothers’ satisfaction with the divorce decree, perceptions of fathers as important for child development, and being satisfied with fathers’ parenting were associated with more supportive coparenting. Mothers’ satisfaction with the divorce decree and fathers’ parenting were associated with less overt conflict. Factors differed for mothers’ reports of their own and their former spouses’ use of covert conflict behaviors, with these factors linked to satisfaction with the divorce decree and perceived stress, respectively. |
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| Keywords: | Conflict coparenting divorce fathers mothers parenting |
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