Parents' stress management and children's well-being

Dyadic coping is a concept from couple research that describes how partners deal with stress and how they support each other when under pressure. It has established itself as an important predictor of individual and partnership outcomes, but has also proven to be significant for the broader family context, especially in parenthood. Child-related stressors that are localised in the immediate family system represent a particular form of parental stress that can have an impact on the parents' partnership and the entire family system.

The central aim of the study is to investigate the extent to which parental dyadic stress management skills are also transferred to child-related stressors and whether these can be mapped well using existing coding systems.