Cross-sectional study shows family functioning and posttraumatic growth affect dyadic coping, highlighting marital quality's mediating role.
Remarried couples who experience infertility face unique stressors requiring effective dyadic coping. Research rarely examines how family functioning and posttraumatic growth jointly influence dyadic coping through an indirect pathway involving marital quality. This cross‐sectional study of 318 couples, utilizing the actor–partner interdependence mediation model, examined these relationships. Results showed family functioning, through higher levels of marital quality, positively influenced both one's own dyadic coping (actor effect) and one's partner's dyadic coping (partner effect). Posttraumatic growth, through higher levels of marital quality, positively influenced one's own dyadic coping (actor effect). These findings underscore marital quality as a pivotal pathway for enhancing dyadic coping in remarried couples that are experiencing infertility, guiding targeted clinical interventions.
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