Drawing from the concept of family systems theory, the present study examined how partners' marital hostility and net positive affect observed in prenatal couple interactions forecast their perceptions of each other's parenting 8 months later, and in turn, how these perceptions forecast their subsequent hostility and net positive affect in couple interactions 24 months after childbirth. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of 124 families in central Texas over their first 2 years of parenthood. Each parent's perceptions of their spouse's parenting were coded from a couple interaction task when infants were 8 months old, and couple interaction qualities were coded from marital interaction tasks when the mothers were pregnant and 24 months after childbirth. Parents' more positive perceptions of their spouse's parenting at 8 months were predicted by greater couple interaction net positive affect and by less couple interaction hostility before childbirth. Greater couple interaction hostility at 24 months after childbirth was predicted indirectly by greater couple hostility before childbirth through mothers' (but not fathers') less positive perceptions of their spouses' parenting. Greater couple net positive affect before childbirth was associated with greater couple net positive affect 2 years later, controlling for parents' perceptions, and fathers' (but not mothers') more positive perceptions were associated with greater couple net positive affect at 24 months. This study should help researchers further understand the role of parents' attitudes toward each other's parenting in couple interaction qualities during the transition to parenthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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过渡到父母身份过程中的婚姻互动质量：父母对配偶育儿观念的作用。

本研究从家庭系统理论的概念出发，考察了伴侣对婚姻的敌意和产前夫妇互动中观察到的净积极影响如何在八个月后预测他们对彼此养育子女的看法，以及这些看法如何预测他们随后的敌对情绪和分娩后24个月对夫妻互动的净积极影响。数据来自对德克萨斯州中部124个家庭在其生育的头两年的纵向研究。当父母在婴儿8个月大时，父母双方对配偶育儿的看法是通过夫妻互动任务来编码的，而在母亲怀孕和分娩后24个月时，夫妻互动质量是通过婚姻互动任务来编码的。父母对配偶的更积极的看法 分娩前夫妇互动的净正面影响更大，夫妇互动的敌意减少，可以预测8个月的父母育儿。产后24个月夫妻间的敌对性更大，是通过母亲（而非父亲）对配偶育儿的较不积极的认识间接地预测了产前夫妻间的敌对。分娩前夫妇的净正面影响较大与2年后的夫妇净正面影响较大相关，控制了父母的知觉，而父亲（而非母亲）更积极的感知与24个月时夫妻的正面净影响更大。这项研究应有助于研究人员进一步理解父母态度对彼此的作用。在过渡为父母的过程中父母对夫妇互动素质的养育。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。