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The Quality of the Parenting Alliance During the Transition to Parenthood
This study of 151 couples expecting their first child investigated a 2-mediator model in which parents’ insecure romantic attachment was related to 2 mediators: partners’ relationship adjustment and changes in relationship adjustment, which were both associated with the quality of their parenting alliance. Couples completed questionnaires about romantic attachment, relationship adjustment, and the coparenting relationship during the third trimester of the pregnancy and at 6 months postpartum. Results showed that the postnatal quality of partners’ union mediated the association between prenatal insecure
attachment and postnatal coparenting quality for both men and women. Men’s prenatal insecure attachment also predicted changes in their relationship adjustment across the transition. This study
provides evidence that relationship adjustment is foundational to couples’ psychological preparedness for coparenting.
Keywords: parenting alliance, relationships adjustment, insecure attachment, transition to parenthood, longitudinal design
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