Anne ve Babaların Ortak Ebeveynlik Davranış ve Algılarının Romantik Bağlanma İle İlişkisi

Coparenting is defined as mothers and fathers sharing child rearing responsibilities, providing mutual support, and managing within-family dynamics together (McHale, “Coparenting and Triadic…” 985). The relationship of observed and perceived coparenting with romantic attachment, as measured with attachment anxiety and avoidance, was investigated in the current study. Forty-five families who have three-month-old infants (M = 103.78 days old) participated in the study with their babies. The Lausanne Trilogue Play Paradigm (Fivaz-Depeursing and Corboz-Warnery 1) was employed in home visits, the parents were asked to engage in 10-minute semi-structured interactions with their babies and these interactions were video recorded. Recorded coparenting behaviors were evaluated by the researchers via “Coparenting and Family Rating System” (McHale et al., “The Transition to Coparenthood…” 711). Perceived coparenting and romantic attachment were measured via Parenting Alliance Inventory (Abidin and Brunner 31) and Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire–Revised (Fraley, Waller, and Brennan 350) scales, respectively. Results indicated that both observed and perceived coparenting were inversely related with both of the attachment dimensions. It was observed that as attachment anxiety and avoidance increase, mothers and fathers interact with each other less cooperatively in the presence of the babies. For both mothers and fathers, perceived coparenting was found to be related to attachment avoidance (but not anxiety), this finding has lent support to previous research showing attachment anxiety may be relatively more functional in the relational Turkish culture.