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Good partner, good parent: caregiving mediates the link between romantic attachment and parenting style

Good partner, good parent: caregiving mediates the link between romantic attachment and parenting style
Good partner, good parent: caregiving mediates the link between romantic attachment and parenting style
This cross-sectional, dyadic questionnaire study examined the contribution of romantic attachment and responsive caregiving to parenting style, investigating both gender and partner effects. One hundred and twenty-five couples with children aged 7-8 years completed measures of attachment styles, responsive caregiving towards partner, and parenting styles. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the intra- and inter-personal associations between romantic attachment, caregiving responsiveness, and parenting styles. Attachment avoidance and anxiety were both negatively associated with responsive caregiving to partner, which in turn was positively associated with authoritative (optimal) parenting styles and negatively associated with authoritarian and permissive (non-optimal) parenting styles. Responsive caregiving mediated all links between attachment and parenting, with an additional direct association between attachment anxiety and non-optimal parenting styles that was not explained by caregiving responsiveness. Findings are discussed with reference to attachment theory
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Millings, Abigail
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Walsh, Judi
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Hepper, Erica G.
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O'Brien, Margaret
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Hepper, Erica G.
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O'Brien, Margaret
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Howe, David
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Millings, Abigail, Walsh, Judi, Hepper, Erica G., O'Brien, Margaret and Howe, David (2012) Good partner, good parent: caregiving mediates the link between romantic attachment and parenting style. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (In Press)

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Abstract

This cross-sectional, dyadic questionnaire study examined the contribution of romantic attachment and responsive caregiving to parenting style, investigating both gender and partner effects. One hundred and twenty-five couples with children aged 7-8 years completed measures of attachment styles, responsive caregiving towards partner, and parenting styles. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the intra- and inter-personal associations between romantic attachment, caregiving responsiveness, and parenting styles. Attachment avoidance and anxiety were both negatively associated with responsive caregiving to partner, which in turn was positively associated with authoritative (optimal) parenting styles and negatively associated with authoritarian and permissive (non-optimal) parenting styles. Responsive caregiving mediated all links between attachment and parenting, with an additional direct association between attachment anxiety and non-optimal parenting styles that was not explained by caregiving responsiveness. Findings are discussed with reference to attachment theory

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 August 2012
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 342470
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/342470
ISSN: 0146-1672
PURE UUID: 4502885a-1767-4ca7-8f24-9efd97b76b00

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Date deposited: 31 Aug 2012 13:47
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 00:51

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Author: Abigail Millings
Author: Judi Walsh
Author: Erica G. Hepper
Author: Margaret O'Brien
Author: David Howe

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