Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children’s Mental Health—The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Marital Satisfaction and Family Functioning
2.2. Child’s Perceived Family Functioning and Their Depression and Anxiety
2.3. The Mediating Role of Child’s Perceived Family Functioning
2.4. Parent-Child Co-Viewing Moderate the Association between Marital Satisfaction and Family Functioning
2.5. Methods
2.6. Measures
2.7. Analytical Plan
3. Results
3.1. Preliminary Analysis
3.2. The Mediation Model
3.3. The Moderated-Mediation Model
4. Discussion
4.1. Theoretical Implications and Practical Implications
4.2. Limitations and Suggestions for Future Directions
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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1. Paternal marital satisfaction | 2.94 | 0.92 | 1 | |||||
2. Maternal marital satisfaction | 2.90 | 0.91 | 0.78 *** | 1 | ||||
3. Paternal co-viewing | 3.14 | 0.94 | 0.35 *** | 0.25 *** | 1 | |||
4. Maternal co-viewing | 3.19 | 0.91 | 0.05 | 0.26 *** | 0.68 *** | 1 | ||
5. Child’s perceived family functioning | 0.82 | 0.57 | 0.10 * | 0.13 * | 0.04 | 0.09 | 1 | |
6. Child’s anxiety | 0.57 | 0.52 | −0.11 * | −0.09 | 0.05 | 0.01 | −0.29 *** | 1 |
7. Child’s depression | 3.33 | 0.62 | −0.09 | −0.11 * | −0.03 | 0.01 | −0.38 *** | 0.76 *** |
Child’s Perceived Family Functioning | Depression | |||||||
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Predictors | B | SE | LLCI | ULCI | B | SE | LLCI | ULCI |
Constant | 3.91 | 0.41 | 3.10 | 4.72 | 1.75 | 0.18 | 1.40 | 2.11 |
Maternal marital satisfaction | −0.20 | 0.13 | −0.46 | 0.06 | −0.06 | 0.03 | −0.12 | 0.01 |
Child’s perceived family functioning | −0.35 | 0.04 | −0.44 | −0.27 | ||||
Paternal co-viewing | −0.20 | 0.13 | −0.46 | 0.06 | ||||
Paternal co-viewing × Child’s perceived family functioning | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.16 | ||||
R2 | 0.03 * | 0.18 *** | ||||||
Conditional indirect effects of maternal marital satisfaction on depression at a value of paternal co-viewing through children perceived family functioning | ||||||||
Paternal co-viewing | Effect | Boot SE | Boot LLCI | Boot ULCI | ||||
−1 SD | 0.007 | 0.022 | −0.037 | 0.051 | ||||
M | −0.020 | 0.017 | −0.055 | 0.011 | ||||
+1 SD | −0.048 | 0.021 | −0.091 | −0.011 | ||||
Index of moderated mediation mediator | Index | Boot SE | Boot LLCI | Boot ULCI | ||||
−0.029 | 0.014 | −0.059 | −0.002 |
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Du, X.; Liang, M.; Mu, W.; Li, F.; Li, S.; Li, X.; Xu, J.; Wang, K.; Zhou, M. Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children’s Mental Health—The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing. Children 2022, 9, 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020216
Du X, Liang M, Mu W, Li F, Li S, Li X, Xu J, Wang K, Zhou M. Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children’s Mental Health—The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing. Children. 2022; 9(2):216. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020216
Chicago/Turabian StyleDu, Xianxian, Mengjiao Liang, Weiqi Mu, Fugui Li, Siying Li, Xue Li, Jie Xu, Kexin Wang, and Mingjie Zhou. 2022. "Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children’s Mental Health—The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing" Children 9, no. 2: 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020216
APA StyleDu, X., Liang, M., Mu, W., Li, F., Li, S., Li, X., Xu, J., Wang, K., & Zhou, M. (2022). Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children’s Mental Health—The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing. Children, 9(2), 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020216