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Cross-Day Influences Between Couple Closeness And Coparenting Support Among New Parents., Yunying Le, Steffany J Fredman, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Mark E Feinberg
Cross-Day Influences Between Couple Closeness And Coparenting Support Among New Parents., Yunying Le, Steffany J Fredman, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Mark E Feinberg
Health Services and Informatics Research
The couple and coparenting relationships are demonstrated to be prospectively and bidirectionally associated over months to years during the early parenting years. However, little is known about these associations at the daily level within the first year of parenthood, when coparenting first emerges. The goal of the current study was to examine the association between couples' daily feelings of relationship closeness and coparenting support in first-time parents and determine directionality of these effects using a dyadic daily diary design. At 10 months postpartum, heterosexual couples (
Sexting Among Married Couples: Who Is Doing It, And Are They More Satisfied?, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Michelle Drouin
Sexting Among Married Couples: Who Is Doing It, And Are They More Satisfied?, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Michelle Drouin
Health Services and Informatics Research
This study examined the prevalence and correlates of sexting (i.e., sending sexual messages via mobile phones) within a sample of married/cohabiting couples (180 wives and 175 husbands). Married adults do sext each other, but it is much less common than within young adult relationships, and consists mainly of sexy or intimate talk (29% reported engaging in sexy talk with partners) rather than sexually explicit photos or videos (12% reported sending nude or nearly-nude photos). Sending sexy talk messages was positively related to relationship satisfaction only among those with high levels of avoidance, and sending sexually explicit pictures was related to …