- Title
- Modeling relations among coparenting quality, autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, and parenting stress in mothers and fathers of children with ASD
- Creator
- May, Chris; Fletcher, Richard; Dempsey, Ian; Newman, Louise
- Relation
- Parenting Vol. 15, Issue 2, p. 119-133
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2015.1020145
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Objective: Coparenting quality has been linked to both parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy in families of typically developing children, but little is known about relations between these factors in families where there is a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study employed structural equation modeling to explore relations among coparenting quality, autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, and parenting stress in mothers and fathers of children with an ASD. Design: A cohort of biological mothers (n = 80) and fathers (n = 72) who were caring for their young child (age < 13) with a diagnosed ASD self-completed validated surveys assessing parenting stress, coparenting quality, and autism-specific parenting self-efficacy. Results: Both mothers and fathers reported high and similar levels of parenting stress which shared predictive relations with both coparenting quality and autism-specific parenting self-efficacy. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that the relations between perceptions of autism-specific parenting self-efficacy and parenting stress were mediated by coparenting quality. Conclusion: Coparenting quality shares an important relation with parenting stress in both mothers and fathers of children with an ASD, and enhanced perceptions of autism-specific parenting self-efficacy are unlikely to influence parenting stress when parents experience poor quality coparenting.
- Subject
- coparenting; autism; stress; parenting; autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339498
- Identifier
- uon:28273
- Identifier
- ISSN:1529-5192
- Language
- eng
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