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Parent coping behaviors, parent functioning, and infant temperament characteristics.

J N Ventura

    Nursing Research
    |September 1, 1982
    PubMed
    Summary

    Parental coping strategies are linked to parent mental health and infant temperament. Parents experiencing depression or anxiety utilized social support, while those with easygoing infants focused on family integrity and contentment.

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    Area of Science:

    • Developmental Psychology
    • Parenting Studies
    • Infant Mental Health

    Background:

    • Parental coping mechanisms significantly influence family well-being.
    • Understanding the interplay between parent functioning and infant temperament is crucial for early intervention.
    • Parental mental health status can shape perceptions of infant behavior.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the relationship between parent coping behaviors, parent functioning, and infant temperament.
    • To identify distinct patterns of parental coping.
    • To explore how parental mental health and infant temperament relate to specific coping strategies.

    Main Methods:

    • A questionnaire study involving 100 mothers and fathers of two-to-three-month-old infants.

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  • Utilized a 154-item self-administered questionnaire to assess coping behaviors, functioning, and temperament perceptions.
  • Identified three primary parental coping behavior patterns.

    • Main Results:

    • Three coping patterns emerged: seeking social support/self-development, maintaining family integrity, and religious/contentment-focused coping.
    • Parents with depression, anxiety, or somatic complaints favored social support and self-development, and less so family integrity.
    • Parents perceiving infants as more smiling, less crying, and more soothable employed family integrity coping and were more religious/content.

    Conclusions:

    • Parental coping is associated with both parent mental health and infant temperament characteristics.
    • Maternal and paternal coping strategies adapt to perceived infant temperament and parental psychological state.
    • Findings highlight the bidirectional influences in the parent-infant dyad, informing support strategies.