Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators

The present study aimed to examine whether the spillover effects existed between daily marital interactions and daily parenting practices after disentangling the between- and within-family effects and whether parents’ sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) would moderate such associations. The current study included 127 parents (83.3% female and 16.7% male; M age = 34.18, SD = 4.15) who reported their marital interactions and parenting practices over 14 consecutive days. The results of two separate dynamic structural equation models showed that the spillover effects of marital interactions to parenting occurred in a transient and mood-congruent pattern, and SPS traits moderated the relations between marital conflict and negative parenting practices.