A considerable amount of research has suggested significant associations among perceived coparenting relationships, parental anxiety/depression, and children's adjustment. Although family members' function is influenced by other members in a shared context, much of the prior work relied on one parent's perspective to examine the relationship between both parents. To address this important limitation, we applied the actor-partner interdependence model and accounted for the interdependence between fathers and mothers in examining the mediating role of parental anxiety/depression in the association between coparenting quality and child behavior problems. The present study included 1,827 low-income couples from the Supporting Healthy Marriage project (mothers: 51.25% of White, 14.34% African American, 35.31% Hispanic; fathers: 48.11% White, 18.54% African/Black American, 35.34% Hispanic). The results showed that both fathers' and mothers' perceptions of coparenting quality had significant effects on fathers' anxiety/depression. In contrast, mothers' anxiety/depression was affected only by mothers' perceptions of coparenting quality and not by fathers' perceptions. Overall, the effects of parents' perception of coparenting on children's internalizing and externalizing behavior problems were largely mediated by parental anxiety/depression. The findings highlight both interdependent and independent roles of fathers and mothers in the pathways from coparenting quality to children's behavior problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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共同养育子女、父母焦虑/抑郁和儿童行为问题：低收入已婚夫妇的演员-伴侣相互依赖模型。

大量研究表明，感知到的共同养育关系、父母焦虑/抑郁和儿童的适应能力之间存在显着关联。尽管家庭成员的功能会受到共享环境中其他成员的影响，但之前的大部分工作都依赖于父母一方的视角来审视父母双方的关系。为了解决这一重要的局限性，我们应用了演员-伴侣相互依赖模型，并考虑了父亲和母亲之间的相互依赖，以检验父母焦虑/抑郁在共同养育质量和儿童行为问题之间的中介作用。本研究纳入了支持健康婚姻项目的 1,827 对低收入夫妇（母亲：51.25% 白人、14.34% 非裔美国人、35.31% 西班牙裔；父亲：48.11% 白人、18.54% 非洲/黑人美国人、35.34% 西班牙裔）。结果表明，父亲和母亲对共同养育质量的看法对父亲的焦虑/抑郁有显着影响。相比之下，母亲的焦虑/抑郁仅受到母亲对共同养育质量的看法的影响，而不受父亲看法的影响。总体而言，父母对共同养育的看法对儿童内化和外化行为问题的影响很大程度上是由父母的焦虑/抑郁介导的。研究结果强调了父亲和母亲在共同养育质量到儿童行为问题的过程中相互依赖和独立的作用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。