Poster Session 4: Relationship Dissolution and Coparenting

Presenters: Priscilla Zambrano, Jenee' Duncan, Norma Perez-Brena, Michelle Toews

Summary
Two auto-regressive cross-lag models were estimated to evaluate the interrelation between the mother-father (M-F) and mother-grandmother (M-G) coparental subsystems in coparental conflict and involvement at two time-points. Data were collected from 273 adolescent mothers (Mage= 16.79,SD= 1.38; 84.9% Latinx; 53.7% in a relationship with the father). Result showed significant stability in coparental conflict (e.g., M-F coparental conflict at T1 was linked to M-F coparental conflict at T2), and one cross-lag effect. Specifically, M-F coparental conflict at T1 was linked to M-G coparental conflict at T2. Regarding involvement, results showed significant stability effects for mothers' report of fathers' involvement and grandmothers' involvement from T1 to T2, but no cross-lag effects. Implications for intervention focused on multiple adolescent coparenting subsystems are discussed.

Objectives
-- To analyze the association between mother-father and mother-grandmother coparenting from a family systems perspective.
-- To assess how mother-father and mother-grandmother coparenting processes relate to each other over time.
-- To identify potential intervention points that are relevant for adolescent parents.

Subject Codes: coparenting, family processes, resilience
Population Codes: adolescence, Hispanic/Latina/o/x, adolescent parent(s)
Method and Approach Codes: actor-partner interdependence model (APIM), dyadic analysis