How does interparental conflict affect adolescent preference-for-solitude? Depressive symptoms as mediator at between- and within-person levels.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(2), Mar 2023, 173-182; doi:10.1037/fam0001057This 3-year longitudinal study explored the mediating role of depressive symptoms in the relations between interparental conflict (IPC) and preference-for-solitude (PFS). Participants were 1,039 Chinese adolescents (53.9% boys) between 11 and 15 years old (MT1 = 12.37, SD = .58). Data were collected at three time points and included maternal reports of IPC, adolescent reports of depressive symptoms, peer nominations of PFS. Results from multilevel mediation analyses indicated that at both the between- and within-person levels, statistically s...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of mandatory homeschooling during COVID-19 on conflict in romantic couples.
We examined the association between homeschooling and romantic conflict among couples during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian couples (N = 756) completed online measures, including whether they were homeschooling, hours spent homeschooling, and romantic conflict during the month of April 2020. Two hundred ten couples (27.8%) reported that they were homeschooling their children during this period, with 173 (22.9%) couples homeschooling due to the pandemic. Multilevel regressions were used to examine the association between homeschooling status and romantic conflict, and actor–partner interdependence models (APIMs) were use...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Measurement equivalence of family acceptance/rejection among sexual and gender minority youth by disclosure status.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(2), Mar 2023, 195-202; doi:10.1037/fam0001056Family acceptance is a crucial component of healthy development during adolescence, especially for sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) who often fear rejection from family members. Studies focused on SGMY family environments often utilize broad measures that fail to capture SGMY-specific aspects of family acceptance and rejection. Less research has considered how the measurement of family acceptance and rejection might differ depending on whether SGMY have disclosed their sexual and/or gender identities to their parents. We used data from...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Family-centered prevention to enhance proactive parenting and parental self-efficacy during early elementary school.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 380-387; doi:10.1037/fam0001050The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a family-centered intervention delivered during early elementary school, the Family Check-Up (FCU), in supporting parents’ use of proactive parenting skills and the role that parental self-efficacy (PSE) has in promoting proactive parenting. We predicted both direct and mediated effects of the FCU on changes in proactive parenting. Participants were the primary caregivers of 321 kindergarten children and were randomly assigned to either the FCU or to a school-as-usual control group (n =...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Elaboration of parents’ schemas of their children: Unique relations to sensitivity and learning support among families living in poverty.
This study examined how distinct aspects of parents’ schemas of their children are related to caregiving behaviors. It included 242 families with toddlers and young children, most of whom were living in poverty (37% White, 25% Black, 19% Latine, 17% Multiracial, and 2% Asian; child age = 21–39 months; median family income = $1,555 per month). The elaboration and emotional valence of parents’ schemas were coded from brief responses to open-ended questions about children’s personality; observations of parents’ sensitivity and learning support were assessed in structured and unstructured settings. Results of regress...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parent affective responses to observed adolescent disclosures in the context of type 1 diabetes management.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(2), Mar 2023, 215-222; doi:10.1037/fam0001054Rates of Type 1 diabetes are rising, and diabetes management often deteriorates during adolescence. Adolescent disclosure to parents is a key factor for effective diabetes management, and parent affective responses to disclosures affect the timing of future disclosures in healthy populations, but no studies to our knowledge have examined parent affective behaviors that facilitate or inhibit disclosure in the context of managing Type 1 diabetes. The present study examined how observed parental affective responses to adolescent disclosures pred...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire among maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 324-334; doi:10.1037/fam0001045The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten et al., 2017) is a central measure of parental reflective functioning (i.e., the tendency to consider children’s mental experiences); still, little is known about the psychometric properties of the PRFQ among maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers. Maltreating mothers may have difficulties with parental reflective functioning given their risk for biased child-related cognitions and difficulties with sensitive emotion socialization. The present study investigated measurement inv...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Daily diabetes-specific family conflict, problems, and blood glucose during adolescence.
This study was the first to examine daily diabetes-specific conflict with mothers and fathers during adolescence. The number of diabetes problems did not predict daily conflict. Fluctuations in daily conflict were associated with greater risk for low BG, underscoring the need for future research examining in-the-moment relations among conflict and BG extremes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Family Psychology)
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How perceived maternal gatekeeping affects fathers: An 8-week study.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(2), Mar 2023, 232-242; doi:10.1037/fam0001053Maternal gatekeeping describes mothers’ attempts to influence father involvement in child-rearing. While the effect of maternal gatekeeping on the father–child relationship has been explored, less is known about how fluctuations in the perception of maternal gatekeeping influences fathers’ family outcomes and whether father’s attachment might moderate these associations. Building on family systems theory, this study explores the within-person effect of negative maternal gatekeeping on father’s weekly reports of romantic relationship...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Predicting attributional accuracy in mother–adolescent conflictual discussions.
This study assessed mothers’ and adolescents’ attributional accuracy during conflictual discussions and the extent to which such accuracy was associated with their relationship quality and individual perspective-taking abilities. One hundred twenty-three mother (MAge = 43) and adolescent (MAge = 14, 54% female, 52% White) dyads participated in a discussion about an issue commonly causing adolescent guilt and rated their own and their partner’s motives during the discussion. They also self-reported on their relationship and perspective-taking abilities. Results showed that mothers and teens reported overall more posit...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parents’ color-blind racial ideology and implicit racial attitudes predict children’s race-based sympathy.
We examined the relation of White parents’ color-blind racial attitudes (a global composite score and its subscales) and their implicit racial attitudes to their young children’s race-based sympathy toward Black and White victims. One hundred and nighty non-Hispanic White children (54% boys, Mage = 7.13 years, SD = 0.92) reported their sympathy in response to short films depicting bullying toward White or Black children. Their primary caregivers’ (mostly mothers’) color-blind racial ideology (CBRI) was assessed through a questionnaire (reflecting global color blindness, as well as denial of institutional racism, Wh...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Transgression-related co-rumination: Scale validation and prediction of relational outcomes.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 335-346; doi:10.1037/fam0001046Co-rumination refers to the extended and/or recurring discussion of issues in social relationships. The extant research tends to conceptualize co-rumination in terms of general interaction styles, commonly between individuals who act as a source of support for one another. Little work has examined co-rumination in conflict contexts, between victims and offenders, as an event-specific process to come to terms with wrongdoing. The present research develops and validates a new scale measuring three distinct approaches to transgression-related co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evaluation of court-initiated randomized controlled trial of online parent programs for divorcing and separating parents.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(1), Feb 2023, 65-78; doi:10.1037/fam0001049We conducted an evaluation of a court-initiated randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes for parents assigned to either a no-program control group or one of two online parenting programs—Two Families Now (TFN) or Children in Between (CIB)—among 221 parents in initial divorce or separation court cases. We gathered parent report measures of family functioning at study entry, completion of program, and 1-year following study entry. We also gathered and coded court records to capture the content of the document resolving issues and occurr...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parenting in a conflict-affected setting: Discipline practices, parent–child interactions, and parenting stress in Liberia.
This study first describes parenting in urban Liberia by evaluating parent–child interactions, the use and acceptance of harsh and nonharsh discipline, discipline preferences, and the co-occurrence of positive interactions and harsh discipline. The relationship between parenting stress and harsh discipline attitudes and behaviors is then tested. Participants included 813 parents with a child aged 3 or 4 years old. A quantitative survey battery assessed parent–child interactions; discipline practices, preferences, and attitudes; and parenting stress. Parents reported frequent use and high acceptance of nonharsh discipli...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Good, bad, and beyond: Perils of partialing positive and negative couple variables within individuals.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(1), Feb 2023, 31-36; doi:10.1037/fam0001044Partialing correlated predictors to test independent effects is an essential tool in couple research. In actor–partner models, partners’ parallel scores are partialed in tests of unique associations with outcomes. Correlated aspects of couple functioning are also often partialed within individuals to examine separate effects. Partialed versions of measures are typically interpreted as assessing the same construct as original unadjusted variables, but in fact their meaning can change. Extending a prior report on changes in construct validity...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
