Abstract
Parents' sensitivity in reading infants' often-subtle cues is an essential part of parent-infant interactions that contributes to child development. Empirical evidence links marital quality to quality of parent-infant interaction. Little is known, however, about how marital quality affects parental sensitivity for first-time mothers and fathers. This correlational study has three purposes: (a) to test an operational model suggesting that marital quality contributes to parental sensitivity by affecting the psychological well-being of first-time mothers and fathers, (b) to learn if adding parental age and infant gender increases the model's power to predict parental sensitivity, and (c) to learn if the operational model differs for first-time mothers and fathers.
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Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Cross-Sectional
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Parent-Infant Interaction, Marriage Quality, Parental Sensitivity
Advisor
Alice R. Redland
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
The University of Texas at Austin
Degree Year
1991
Recommended Citation
Broom, Betty, "Impact of marital quality and psychological well-being on parental sensitivity for first-time mothers and fathers: A nursing study" (2019). Dissertations. 1694.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1694
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-03-29
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 9128167; ProQuest document ID: 303948373. The author still retains copyright.