Family alliance

1. From Me to Us:
The Construction of Family Alliance
Galdiolo, S. & Roskam, I. – Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Methodology
Sample: 62 non-referred triadic families
Measures:
Pregnancy: NEO-60 (Aluja et al., 2005) & ECR-R (Brennan et al., 1998)
12 months: CPS (Feinberg, Brown, & Kan, 2012) & IBQ (Gartstein & Rothbart, 2013)
18 months: LTP (Fivaz-Depeursinge & Corboz-Warnery, 1999)
Analytical Strategy: SEM, Bootstrap techniques, & Multigroup analyses
Sarah.galdiolo@uclouvain.be
Pregnancy 12 months 18 months
Parents’ Characteristics:
• Personality Traits
• Attachment Orientations
Coparenting Family Alliance
Child’s Temperament
Methods:
Galdiolo, S. & Roskam, I. (2016). From me to us: The construction of Family Alliance. Infant Mental Health Journal, 37(1), 29 – 44.
Final Parsimonious Model
Parents’
Conscientiousness
Mother’s Avoidant
Attachment
Father’s Anxious
Attachment
Coparenting Family Alliance
.20*
-.41**
-.46***
.25*
(χ2(3) = 3.79, n.s.; χ2/df = 1.26, CFI = 0.99, RMSEA = .05, AIC=37.79)
Discussion
Parents’ Characteristics & FA
• Positive indirect effect of Conscientiousness: Consistency & structure for the family environment
• Negative indirect effect of mother’s Avoidant Attachment: Difficulty in providing supportive care to the child and the partner
• Negative indirect effect of father’s Anxious Attachment: Feeling of exclusion during the early months portpartum
Coparenting & FA
• Mechanism explaining the associations between parents’ characteristics & FA
• Prevention / intervention programs: Coparenting as a malleable construct (parental behaviors & cognitions)
Child’s Temperament & FA: Too young temperament for competing with more stable and enduring parents’ variables