Sintomas emocionais na díade: repercussões nas relações conjugais e coparentais

Abstract

This thesis aimed to investigate the relationships between emotional symptoms in the dyad, marital quality, and coparenting in couples from nuclear and remarried families with children aged 6 to 11 years. It is a quantitative, cross-sectional, explanatory study. A total of 174 adults aged between 20 and 51 years (M = 39.1; SD = 5.76) participated, of which 81.5% (n = 141) resided in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The instruments used were: a sociodemographic questionnaire, CI-PA, GRIMS, ERC, DASS-21, and R-DAS. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) and was conducted online through an electronic form on the Microsoft Forms platform. The results were organized into three empirical studies: 1. Impact of personal, marital, and coparental characteristics on couples' psychological distress; 2. Relationships between marital quality, dyadic adjustment, and coparenting: a comparative study; 3. The repercussions of mental health on marital and coparental quality in parents with children aged 6 to 11. The findings support the notion that emotional health impacts couples, regardless of family configuration, causing a spillover effect into subsystems. The importance of further studies on the topic and the relevance of the findings for advancing the field of Psychology is emphasized.