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The Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Father Involvement：The Mediation Effect of Coparenting

CHEN Ling-ling, WU Xin-chun, LIU Chang   

  1. School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2014-05-15 Published:2014-05-15

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Abstract: This study investigated 364 pairs of preschool-child's parents who were from different areas of China by Inventory of Father Involvement, Marital Satisfaction Scale and Co-parenting Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to test the spillover effect, compensatory effect and crossover effect among spouses' marital satisfaction, coparenting and father involvement and the role of coparenting behavior as a mediator of the relationship between spousal marital satisfaction and father involvement. The results were as follows: (1) Spillover effect, compensatory effect and crossover effect existed in the relationship among spouses' marital satisfaction, coparenting and father involvement. (2) When family integrity or reprimand were taken as mediator, father's coparenting behavior partly or fully mediated the association between father's marital satisfaction and father involvement, while mother's marital satisfaction and mother's coparenting behavior made no difference on father involvement. When conflict or disparagement were taken as mediator, spousal marital satisfaction predicted father involvement directly, and neither father's nor mother's coparenting behavior played the role of mediator.

Key words: father involvement, marital satisfaction, coparenting, preschool child

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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