Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Paternity leave, supportive involvement, and maternal postpartum adjustment: parity-stratified associations in a structural equation model
Originally published 2026-07-14 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1807103 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Separates care tasks, housework and mental support when relating leave to postpartum adjustment, asking what collaboration actually consists of after birth.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Are we sharing emotional support as well as the visible care tasks?
Separates care tasks, housework and mental support when relating leave to postpartum adjustment, asking what collaboration actually consists of after birth.
Study context
555 mothers reporting paternity leave, paternal involvement and coparenting at three months postpartum.
Age / stage: Mothers of three-month-old infants.
Read with three questions
- How did paternal involvement differ across no, short and long leave groups?
- Why was mental support important to perceived coparenting quality?
- What restrictions in the model shaped the interpretation of indirect associations?
Keep the limits in view
One-time mother reports and theory-specified indirect paths do not establish causal effects; this paper and related follow-up research may draw on overlapping populations.
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Aiko Hironaka; Shoko Sugao; Masayuki Endo; Hiroko Watanabe (2026). Paternity leave, supportive involvement, and maternal postpartum adjustment: parity-stratified associations in a structural equation model Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1807103
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