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An Ecological Perspective on Coparenting During Infancy: Exploring Associations among Social Support, Mental Health, and Parental Burnout


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dc.contributor.advisorFrosch, Cynthia
dc.contributor.authorFenn, Haley
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T14:06:08Z
dc.date.available2022-07-25T14:06:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-25
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.auburn.edu//handle/10415/8308
dc.description.abstractThe months following the birth of a new child can be a stressful time for parents. The way in which partners work together to share parenting responsibilities (i.e., coparent) is especially important for navigating the challenges of parenting during infancy. However, less is known about how coparenting relationship quality relates to parents’ psychological adjustment, including parental burnout. Grounded in Feinberg’s (2003) ecological model of coparenting, this study explored the associations among perceived social support, anxiety/depressive symptoms, coparenting relationship quality, and parental burnout in a sample of U.S. mothers and fathers with 3- to 12-month-old infants. Participants (n = 128; 69 mothers, 59 fathers) were recruited online from Amazon Mechanical Turk (i.e., MTurk). Participants were predominately White, college-educated, married parents. Results from a path analysis revealed that anxiety/depressive symptoms were tied strongly to burnout, suggesting that these mental health symptoms explain the link between perceived social support and burnout among this sample of parents with infants. In addition, there were no significant differences in study variables, including self-reported parental burnout, between mothers and fathers. Findings from this study contribute to the growing literature on coparenting and burnout among U.S. parents with infants and help to inform prevention-based practices for families, researchers, therapists, and family life educators.en_US
dc.rightsEMBARGO_NOT_AUBURNen_US
dc.subjectHuman Development and Family Scienceen_US
dc.titleAn Ecological Perspective on Coparenting During Infancy: Exploring Associations among Social Support, Mental Health, and Parental Burnouten_US
dc.typeMaster's Thesisen_US
dc.embargo.lengthMONTHS_WITHHELD:36en_US
dc.embargo.statusEMBARGOEDen_US
dc.embargo.enddate2025-07-25en_US

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