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Marital Spiritual Intimacy Predicts Coparenting Processes Across The Transition To Parenthood

Flint, Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555079707358136

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
The present study used longitudinal data to quantify the psychological relationship between marital spiritual intimacy and three coparenting processes. Spiritual intimacy within a marriage is characterized by the quality and quantity of disclosures surrounding religious and spiritual issues and the degree to which these disclosures are met with empathetic support. The subjective experience of spiritual intimacy within a marital relationship is a combination of willingness to disclose and warmth upon reception of disclosure for both spouses. As the 164 married couples who participated in this study underwent the transition to first-time parenthood, they were assessed using self-report measures of marital spiritual intimacy as well as coparenting solidarity, support, and undermining. Solidarity and support refer to aspects of the degree in which a spouse feels like an encouraged member of a unified coparenting team. Meanwhile, undermining coparenting encapsulates behaviors and words that spouses may or may not employ that have the effect of damaging their spouse’s self-confidence about parenting choices or causing one to doubt the level of support they are receiving from their partner. At three time points (3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-birth), couples' felt levels of spiritual intimacy and coparenting support, solidarity, and undermining were assessed. Using fixed effects regression, stable and unchanging characteristics about each participant were functionally eliminated when examining links over time between marital spiritual intimacy and coparenting processes. As expected, marital spiritual intimacy predicted higher levels of coparenting support and solidarity, and lower levels of undermining coparenting processes. The construct of spiritual intimacy is a largely un-examined variable in the psychological literature that could prove to be a potent predictor of adaptive marital, parental, and coparental outcomes.
Annette Mahoney, Ph.D (Advisor)
Anne Gordon, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Kenneth Pargament, Ph.D (Committee Member)
69 p.
Clinical Psychology
Spiritual Intimacy; Coparenting; Religion; Spirituality; Couples; Transition to Parenthood

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  • Flint, D. (2019). Marital Spiritual Intimacy Predicts Coparenting Processes Across The Transition To Parenthood [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555079707358136

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Flint, Daniel. Marital Spiritual Intimacy Predicts Coparenting Processes Across The Transition To Parenthood . 2019. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555079707358136.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Flint, Daniel. "Marital Spiritual Intimacy Predicts Coparenting Processes Across The Transition To Parenthood ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555079707358136

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