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Area of Science:

  • Family Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Coparenting is widely studied, yet daily processes in early parenthood remain underexplored.
  • Family systems theory and ecological models inform understanding of coparenting dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate day-to-day within-family processes of cooperative and tensioned coparenting in new parents.
  • To identify and define daily coparenting processes: continuity, spread, and shift.

Main Methods:

  • 144 Finnish first-time couples completed daily mobile diaries for 7 days.
  • Data collected when infants were 4-6 months old.
  • Random-intercept cross-lagged panel model analyzed daily processes.

Main Results:

  • Continuity: Previous day's cooperative coparenting predicted own next-day cooperative coparenting.
  • Spread: Cooperative coparenting predicted spouse's next-day reduced tension.
  • Shift: Tensioned coparenting predicted own next-day cooperative coparenting.

Conclusions:

  • Daily coparenting involves continuity, spread, and shift processes, with cooperative coparenting playing a more central role.
  • Interventions should focus on enhancing cooperative coparenting.
  • New concepts of continuity, spread, and shift offer improved descriptions of daily coparenting.