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- Title
Enhancing coparenting, parenting, and child self-regulation: effects of family foundations 1 year after birth.
- Authors
Feinberg, Mark E; Kan, Marni L; Goslin, Megan C
- Abstract
This study investigated whether a psycho-educational program with modest dosage (eight sessions), delivered in a universal framework through childbirth education programs and targeting the coparenting relationship would have a positive impact on observed family interaction and child behavior at 6-month follow-up (child age 1 year). One hundred sixty-nine couples, randomized to intervention and control conditions, participated in videotaped family observation tasks at pretest (during pregnancy) and at child age 1 year (2003-2007). Coparenting, parenting, couple relationship, and child self-regulatory behaviors were coded by teams of raters. Intent-to-treat analyses of program effects controlled for age, education, and social desirability. Evidence of significant (p < 0.05) program effects at follow-up emerged in all four domains. Effect sizes ranged from 0.28 to 1.01. Targeting the coparenting relationship at the transition to parenthood represents an effective, non-stigmatizing means of promoting parenting quality and child adjustment.
- Publication
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 3, p276
- ISSN
1573-6695
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11121-009-0130-4