Parenting Diary Study, 2018

Parents (N = 280; 65% women) with at least one child living in the home participated in a 9-day daily diary study. On the first and last day, they completed basic measures of overall well-being, attachment, caregiving goals, and additional parenting specific measures. Each day for 1 week (7 days in-between the 2 book-end time points), they completed a caregiving diary and measures of emotions (including love), psychological need satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and closeness. (More detail below). To be eligible, participants must have been at least 18 years of age and have at least one child living in the home. On average, parents were in their 30s (range 22-64) with roughly 2 children. Parents’ youngest child was around age 2 and oldest child was roughly age 10. For the daily diary, parents wrote about an experience they had caring for their child that day. They also completed measures of positive and negative emotions, psychological need satisfaction, daily meaning and life satisfaction, relationship satisfaction (with romantic partner), and inclusion of other in self (completed for both romantic partner and child). The University of the South IRB #17-6