Türkiye'deki ailelerde evlilik memnuniyetinin ortak ebeveynlik ilişkisine etkisi: Çift perspektifi

Coparenting is an executive relationship in a family and refers to how parents interact with each other regarding child-rearing issues. Coparenting relationship is associated with many factors in family system including child and parent characteristics; parent and child adjustment; and relationships such as marital relationship. Dyadic-level overall interparental relationship is one of the most important factors in terms of quality of coparenting relationship (Kitzmann, 2000). Therefore, it is important to examine the association between marital and coparenting relationship. Although there are many studies that shows the association between marital and coparenting relationship, these are different concepts. According to family systems theory (Minuchin, 1985; Minuchin, 1974), it can be concluded that coparenting is an executive subsystem and interconnected with marital subsystem. However, less is known about the association between marital and coparenting relationship in Turkish families. Therefore, current study aimed to investigate the effects of marital satisfaction on coparenting relationship from a dyadic perspective in Turkish families with preschool age children. The participants comprised 249 married co-parent dyads (249 mothers and 249 fathers) having a child between the ages of 3 and 7 (M =56.96, SD =15.16). Both parents reported their marital satisfaction on Couples Satisfaction Index (Funk & Rogge, 2007) and coparenting relationship as three dimensions (cooperation, conflict and triangulation) on Coparenting Inventory for Parents with Preschoolers (CI-PA) (Pinquart & Teubert, 2015). Three different the actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) including marital satisfaction and coparenting cooperation; marital satisfaction and coparenting conflict; and marital satisfaction and coparenting triangulation were conducted to clarify the interdependence between partners and to test for possible actor and partner effects (Cook & Kenny, 2005). Results from actor partner interdependence models revealed that (1) marital satisfaction influenced coparenting cooperation positively for both parents (actor effect). Also, father's marital satisfaction had a positive effect on mother's coparenting cooperation (partner effect from father to mother). (2) marital satisfaction influenced coparenting conflict negatively for both parents (actor effect). (3) marital satisfaction influenced coparenting triangulation negatively for both parents (actor effect). Also, father's marital satisfaction had a negative effect on mother's coparenting triangulation (partner effect from father to mother). Finding actor and partner effect on these associations was consistent with both Family System Theory (Minuchin, 1988) and previous works. Clinical implications were discussed. Keywords: Actor-partner interdependence model; Coparenting; Dyadic; Marital satisfaction, preschool children