Individual differences in timing of susceptibility to adverse effects of family dysfunction.
Do adolescents vary in the timing of their susceptibility to family-related adversity? Does early exposure to family dysfunction affect later adolescent plasticity? To address these two questions an influence statistic, DFBETAS, was used to capture degree to which 605,344 Danish children (294,479 females, 5.21% immigrants; race/ethnicity information not available in Danish registry) appeared susceptible to the adverse effects of household dysfunction measured annually at ages 0–5 and 13–18 on problematic development at age 18–19. Degree of susceptibility to family-adversity effects proved generally consistent across ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interpersonal complementarity as a predictor of parent–child relationship quality.
The parent–child relationship is critically important for children’s functioning and long-term outcomes. Although typically measured by self-report or global codes in observed interactions, parent–child interactions actually occur on a moment-to-moment basis, with frequent shifts in behavior and affect happening in each member of the dyad. Even so, moment-to-moment interactions in these dyads are rarely studied. We sought to illuminate how complementarity, or the extent to which behavior in one member of the dyad shapes that of the other, impacts the quality of the parent–child relationship. Parent–child dyads in...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dynamic interdependence in parenting behavior: The role of family and child risks.
The present study investigated the interdependence in the moment-to-moment fluctuations in parenting behavior during a triadic family interaction. Furthermore, by considering parenting interdependence within the broader family context, we also evaluated the role of various family risks (i.e., family instability, coparenting conflict, child externalizing problems) on parenting behavior interdependence. Participants were 192 families with an adolescent (Mage = 12.4 years), and maternal and paternal parenting behavior were separately rated on a minute-to-minute basis during a triadic family conflict discussion. Between mother...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coping socialization in Black families: A latent profile analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(8), Dec 2022, 1306-1317; doi:10.1037/fam0000962The purpose of the present study was to employ latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify distinct profiles of Black caregivers based on how they socialize their children to cope with stress. Participants included 126 Black female caregivers (Mage = 40.67, SD = 9.73) who provided data on 149 4th−8th-grade children (61% female; Mage = 11.21, SD = 1.52). Caregivers self-reported on socialization of child coping, caregiver support, and caregiver coping behaviors; children reported on caregiver socialization of coping, caregiver support, and c...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
African Americans’ relationship quality and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal investigation of the Marital Discord Model.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(7), Oct 2022, 1061-1072; doi:10.1037/fam0000967The present study was designed to examine the complex bidirectional associations between relationship quality and depressive symptoms among African American couples. Informed by the Marital Discord Model, particular attention was devoted to understanding the unique associations of positive and negative dimensions of relationship functioning with depressive symptoms over time, the time frames over which these effects occur, and the model’s applicability for African American couples. One hundred seventy-four African American couples (N = 34...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
African Americans’ relationship quality and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal investigation of the Marital Discord Model.
The present study was designed to examine the complex bidirectional associations between relationship quality and depressive symptoms among African American couples. Informed by the Marital Discord Model, particular attention was devoted to understanding the unique associations of positive and negative dimensions of relationship functioning with depressive symptoms over time, the time frames over which these effects occur, and the model’s applicability for African American couples. One hundred seventy-four African American couples (N = 348 individuals) provided information on depressive symptoms, relationship satisfactio...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parent–child personality similarity and differential autonomy support toward siblings.
Since parental differential treatment is related to more adjustment difficulties over and above main effects of parental treatment, it is important to understand under what conditions differential parenting is likely to occur. Using a within-family design, this study focused on between-sibling differences in parent–child personality similarity as a potential predictor of differential autonomy support from fathers and mothers. Longitudinal data (6 annual waves) of 497 target adolescents (56.9% boys, Mage at T₁ = 13.03), one of their siblings (N = 416, Mage at T₁ = 14.92), their fathers (N = 446, Mage at T₁ = 46.74),...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Discrimination in Latinx families’ linked lives: Examining the roles of family process and youth worries.
Our goal was to test a prospective indirect effects model to examine whether maternal and youth exposures to discrimination were linked to adolescent adjustment (i.e., grade point average [GPA], internalizing symptoms and externalizing symptoms) via maternal warmth and family anti-immigrant behavior modifications and whether youth anti-immigrant worries qualified these relations. Prior research has demonstrated that individual exposures to ethnic–racial discrimination are associated with poor adjustment among Latinx adolescents. Less research has evaluated the impact of discrimination from a family lens or focused on ide...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parent work–life conflict and adolescent adjustment during COVID-19: Mental health and parenting as mediators.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented challenging time for parents and adolescents. The present study examines the role of parent work–life conflict on adolescent adjustment (i.e., academic engagement and mental health) and family processes (i.e., parental mental health and parenting) as potential mediators for this association. A total of 692 middle school students (53.2% boys; Mage = 13.54 years, SDage = 0.58) and their parents (29.6% fathers and 70.4% mothers; Mage = 44.75 years, SDage = 4.14 years) completed an online survey in May 2020 in Beijing, China. Results indicated that many parents (24....
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Commitment, pro-relationship behaviors, and marital quality among Arab married couples in Israel.
While most of the work on factors influencing marital quality focuses on conflict reduction, research shows that positive interactions are also significant. Still, few studies have examined the effects of couple behavior in negative and positive contexts in a single theoretical model. Here, we tested whether pro-relationship behaviors in negative and positive contexts, namely accommodation and capitalization-support, respectively, mediate the positive association between commitment and marital quality. We investigated each partner separately before addressing reciprocal relationships between partners. Given our sample of A...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Thoughts and affect experienced by parents of preschool- and school-aged children during night-waking interactions.
Measures of parents’ cognitions have advanced our understanding of infants’ sleep. But, few comparable measures exist for use with parents of preschool- or school-age children. The Parents’ night-waking thoughts and affect questionnaire (PNTQ), a self-report measure of parents’ thoughts and feelings when their children wake during the night, addresses this need. This scale was evaluated in two community samples of parents (N = 473). Sample 1 included preschool-age children (2–5-years-old), and Sample 2 included preschool- and school-age children (2–10-years-old). A subsample completed 1-month test–retest reli...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and relationship satisfaction in military couples.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been found to influence one’s own mental health and relationship satisfaction in adulthood; however, the association between one’s own ACEs and their partner’s individual and relationship functioning has not been explored. Veterans (n = 103) and their significant others (S-O; total N = 206) completed assessments on ACEs, depression, relationship satisfaction, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom severity as part of a baseline assessment in a treatment outcome study for veterans with PTSD and their S-Os. Actor Partner Interdependence Moderation Modeling (APIMoM) wa...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Replicating a randomized trial with video-feedback to promote positive parenting in parents of school-aged twins.
We examined the main effect of the intervention on observed parental sensitivity and sensitive discipline and on attitudes toward sensitivity and sensitive discipline. We also investigated whether parents who are more susceptible to the environment, as measured by their self- and partner-reported current temperamental reactivity, benefitted more from the intervention. In our sample with older children, the VIPP-SD did not significantly change observed parental sensitivity or sensitive discipline in the intervention group compared to the control group. The VIPP-SD did improve parents’ attitude toward sensitivity, but not ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A culturally grounded prenatal coparenting intervention: Results of a randomized controlled trial with unmarried Black parents.
This study examines the efficacy of a prenatal intervention designed to promote healthy coparenting relationships in families where low-income, unmarried mothers and fathers were expecting a first baby together. One hundred thirty-eight Black and mixed-race mother–father dyads participated. Coparent dyads were randomly assigned to either a treatment as usual (TAU) group, receiving referrals and navigation support to existing community services (control), or to TAU plus invitation to a series of six dyadic Focused Coparenting Consultation (FCC) sessions led by a male–female mentor team (intervention). Seventy-one percen...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
