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The relation between parents’ gender values and parenting, and adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment among parents of adolescents

par Eira Nunes, Cindy ;Lamprianidou, Elli-Anastasia ;Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie M.J.;Van Petegem, Stijn Julien
Référence the 11th European Society on Family Relations Conference (Roskilde, Denmark)
Publication Non publié, 2023-06-14

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Our Western society is characterized by a growing valorization of gender equality values and changes in parental roles (Schoppe-Sullivan & Fagan, 2020). However, research on families still defaults a focus on mothers (Cabrera et al., 2018) and should explore how societal changes influence parents in their parenting practices as well as in their family relationships. This study aimed to better understand the relations between mothers’ and fathers’ equality values, their own and their partners’ perceptions of coparenting and parenting, and their adolescents’ adjustment. This study was based on a sample drawn from the Growing up in Australia study, an ongoing panel survey on Australian families. The sample involves a representative sample of 2916 families with an adolescent between 12-13 years old. Mothers and fathers reported on their attitudes about gender equality, coparenting support, and parental warmth and hostility, as well as on their adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment. We used actor-partner interdependence modeling to estimate the mutual associations between mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes, their parenting practices and perceived coparenting support, and adolescents’ adjustment. Three models were conducted for parenting and coparenting separately.Results showed that only mothers’ attitudes toward gender equality were associated with more parental warmth and coparenting support among both mothers and fathers. We also found significant actor and partner effects of parenting practices and coparenting support on adolescents’ adjustment. In conclusion, our results indicate that parents’ values may influence positively both coparenting and parenting, which in turn appears negatively related to adolescents’ difficulties.