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FROM ME TO US: THE CONSTRUCTION OF FAMILY ALLIANCE
Author(s) -
Galdiolo Sarah,
Roskam Isabelle
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/imhj.21543
Subject(s) - coparenting , alliance , moderation , psychology , attachment theory , conscientiousness , developmental psychology , temperament , structural equation modeling , personality , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , law , extraversion and introversion , political science
This longitudinal prospective and multi‐informant study based on a three‐wave research program (pregnancy, 12 months’ postpartum, and 16 months’ postpartum) aimed to determine the process of construction of family alliance, as assessed by the Lausanne Trilogue Play (Fivaz‐Depeursinge & Corboz‐Warnery, 1999). A model using parents’ individual characteristics (i.e., personality traits and attachment orientations) as distal variables, coparenting as a mediator, child's temperament as a moderator, and family alliance as outcome was tested using structural equation modeling on 62 nonreferred families. Results showed that both parents’ conscientiousness was positively and mothers’ avoidant attachment and fathers’ anxious attachment were negatively and indirectly (via coparenting) associated with the family alliance. The discussion underlines mothers’ and fathers’ different roles and the importance of coparenting as a core mechanism in the development of family alliance.