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JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE AND INFANT PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 343-355Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2016.1178853
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Transition to parenthood; fathers; parenting self-efficacy; anxious and depressive symptoms; coparenting support
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- FEDER Funds through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade - COMPETE
- National Funds through FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PTDC/SAU/SAP/116,738/2010]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/SAU-SAP/116738/2010] Funding Source: FCT
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Background: Little is known about the development of fathers' parenting self-efficacy during the transition to parenthood.Objectives: To analyse (1) fathers' parenting self-efficacy developmental path and (2) the effects of anxious and depressive symptoms and coparenting support on fathers' parenting self-efficacy developmental path, from the first trimester of pregnancy to 6 months postpartum.Methods: Eighty-six fathers recruited at the first trimester of pregnancy completed self-report measures of anxious and depressive symptoms, coparenting support and parenting self-efficacy at the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, and at 1 and 6 months postpartum. Growth curve models were performed.Results: An increase in fathers' parenting self-efficacy was found from the first trimester of pregnancy to 6 months postpartum. The main effects of anxious symptoms and interaction effects of anxious symptoms and time were found on fathers' parenting self-efficacy. Fathers with higher anxious symptoms revealed lower levels of parenting self-efficacy at the first trimester of pregnancy and a lower increase of parenting self-efficacy from this time to 6 months postpartum. The main effects of coparenting support were found in fathers' parenting self-efficacy. At the first trimester of pregnancy, fathers who perceived more coparenting support revealed higher levels of parenting self-efficacy.Conclusion: The present study may contribute to the literature by describing fathers' parenting self-efficacy developmental path and the effects of anxious symptoms and coparenting support on fathers' parenting self-efficacy developmental path during the transition to parenthood.
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