The Effect of Parenting Stress on Marital Quality in Newborn Baby Parents: The Mediating Effect of Spouse Support

Abstract

Abstract: The study examined the effect of parenting stress on marital quality, and further explores the mediating effect of spouse support. We used the Quality of Marriage Index, Parenting Stress Scale and Support in Intimate Relationships Rating Scale to survey 90 pairs of newborn baby parents. We took actor-partner interdependence model for data processing, and the results found that:(1) husband and wife's parenting stress, marital quality, and their perceived spouse support were all significantly positively correlated. (2) The parenting stress of husbands not only have a significant effect on their own marital quality, and also significantly impacted on their spouses' marital quality. (3) The perceived spouse support of husbands played an important role to mediate the effect of parenting stress on marital quality.

Key words: marital quality, parenting stress, spouse support, mediating effect, actor-partner interdependence model

摘要： 研究旨在考察养育压力与婚姻质量的关系，并进一步探究配偶支持在二者中的中介作用。招募90对北京市新生婴儿父母，采用婚姻质量量表、养育压力量表以及亲密关系支持量表进行施测，并采取主-客体互倚模型等方法进行数据处理。研究发现：（1）丈夫与妻子的养育压力、婚姻质量、自身所感知到的配偶支持都呈显著正相关；（2）只有丈夫的养育压力不仅能够显著负向预测自身的婚姻质量，还能够负向预测妻子的婚姻质量；（3）丈夫自身感知到的配偶支持水平在其养育压力对自身婚姻质量的影响中，起完全中介作用。

关键词: 婚姻质量, 养育压力, 配偶支持, 中介作用, 主-客体互倚模型

CLC Number:

B849

HOU Juan, PAN Xuefei, MA Meijing, LAN Jing, JU Xiaoyan, FANG Xiaoyi. The Effect of Parenting Stress on Marital Quality in Newborn Baby Parents: The Mediating Effect of Spouse Support[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(1): 97-106.

侯娟, 潘学飞, 马美静, 兰菁, 琚晓燕, 方晓义. 新生婴儿父母养育压力对婚姻质量的影响：配偶支持的中介作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(1): 97-106.

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