Associations between dyadic relationship quality and stepfamily functioning: A common fate modeling approach.

Publisher: Family Process Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0400666 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1545-5300 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00147370 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Fam Process Subsets: MEDLINE

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Family Structure* ; Parents*; Humans ; Marriage

Clinical and empirical literatures have highlighted the value of attending to distinct dyads within stepfamilies to ensure the needs of various relationships are being met. From a family systems perspective, the growth and maintenance of positive dynamics within one dyadic relationship can yield gains in other relationships and shape the larger stepfamily environment. Research seeking to link information about dyads and larger stepfamily systems is often marked by single-informant data or measures that represent individual-level constructs. Methods intended to leverage multi-informant data as indicators of dyad- or family-level constructs (i.e., common fate modeling; CFM) offer valuable opportunities to expand our understanding of stepfamily experiences. Using a sample of 291 stepparent-parent dyads, our study uses multi-informant data and CFM to assess three dyad-level constructs (i.e., marital quality, marital confidence, and stepparent-child relationship quality) as correlates of three stepfamily-level constructs (i.e., cohesion, expressiveness, and harmony). Our findings illustrate meaningful linkages among dyadic relationships and broader stepfamily-level dynamics, specifically emphasizing the role of stepparent-child relationship quality and marital confidence in shaping stepfamily cohesion, expressiveness, and harmony. The results also signal the potential for substantive findings to vary with respect to the selected unit of analysis.
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Keywords: dyadic analysis; family processes; relationship quality; remarriage; stepfamily; stepparent-child relationship quality; 二元分析; 关系质量; 再婚; 再婚家庭; 家庭过程; 继父母-子女关系质量
Local Abstract: [Publisher, Chinese] 临床研究和实证文献都强调了要关注再婚家庭中不同的二人组的价值，以确保各种关系的需求得到满足。从家庭系统的角度来看，一个动态关系的成长和维持可以在其他关系中产生益处，并影响着更大的再婚家庭环境。试图将伴侣关系和更大的再婚家庭系统的信息联系起来的研究，其特点通常是多以单个信息提供者的数据为主或衡量代表个体水平的关键概念。那些旨在利用多信息来源的数据作为二元或家族层次概念指标的方法(例如，共同命运建模; CFM) 提供了宝贵的机会来拓展我们对再婚家庭经验的理解。本研究以291对继父-继母为样本，利用多个被调查者数据和CFM来评估三个二元关系的关键概念(即婚姻质量、婚姻信心、继父母-子女关系质量)作为三个再婚家庭关键观念 (即凝聚力、表现力、和谐)的相关关系。我们的发现说明了二元双方关系和更广泛的再婚家庭层面的动态之间存在着有意义的联系，特别强调了再婚父母-子女关系质量和婚姻信心在塑造再婚家庭的凝聚力、表现力和和谐方面的作用。这些结果还表明，更多实质性结果可能或因为所选的分析单位而有所不同。.

Date Created: 20220727 Date Completed: 20230608 Latest Revision: 20230609

20240829

10.1111/famp.12803

35883260