Association of parents’ work-related stress and children’s socioemotional competency: Indirect effects of family mealtimes.
We examined the direct and indirect effects of parents’ work-related stress on child socioemotional competency through their involvement in mealtimes. The results indicate a negative direct association between the mother’s job/financial dissatisfaction and the child’s socioemotional competency. The father’s job dissatisfaction had an adverse impact on children in terms of socioemotional competency, partially explained by the father participating less often in family mealtimes. Fathers’ job/financial dissatisfaction had a negative influence on children’s socioemotional competency, even with an increase in the mo...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coparent exclusion, prenatal experiences, and mental health during COVID-19 in Sweden.
This study aimed to explore the experiences and mental health of expecting parents in Sweden by combining qualitative content analysis of parents’ own narratives (n = 212) and quantitative analysis of established measures of perinatal depression, anxiety, and self-efficacy (N = 378). Content analysis indicated that parents reported feeling isolated and missing social support. Regarding the medical context, nonbirthing parents reported feeling excluded, and birthing parents reported increased worry about a potential birth with their partner absent. However, parents with a partner also reported feeling closer with their co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“You okay, honey?”: Marital quality and mental health as correlates to couples’ compassion.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 899-908; doi:10.1037/fam0001130Compassion is an inherently interpersonal emotion that motivates caretaking behavior. Yet, couples’ expressions of compassion have been largely overlooked by researchers. We capitalized on a unique archive of naturalistic recordings to assess the frequency with which married couples (N = 30) verbally expressed compassion to one another in daily life and tested associations with partners’ ratings of marital quality, depression, and neuroticism. A keyword search of hundreds of hours of recordings flagged potential expressions; human coders ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social and emotional determinants of parental reflective functioning in a multinational sample.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 818-829; doi:10.1037/fam0001132Parental reflective functioning refers to parents’ capacity to consider their child’s internal experiences and is associated with secure parent–child attachment, sensitive parenting behavior, and positive child socioemotional development. However, research into determinants of parental reflective functioning in large diverse samples has been scarce. Therefore, using a large multinational sample and longitudinal design, we aimed to: (a) identify sociodemographic determinants of parental reflective functioning; (b) investigate whether par...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Correction to Tucker et al. (2014).
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 965; doi:10.1037/fam0001120Reports an error in "Family dynamics and young children’s sibling victimization" by Corinna Jenkins Tucker, David Finkelhor, Heather Turner and Anne M. Shattuck (Journal of Family Psychology, 2014[Oct], Vol 28[5], 625-633). In the original article, several errors were made when describing the results of the second and third columns of Table 2 whereby, in the text of the second paragraph of the” No Victimization Versus Sibling Victimization Groups” section. The corrected texts are present in the erratum. (The following abstract of the origin...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - July 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Longitudinal associations between maternal harsh parenting and child temperament: The moderating role of children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 400-410; doi:10.1037/fam0001129To better understand biology by environment interactions in early temperament, we examined whether children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; resting RSA and RSA reactivity) operated as a biological marker of differential susceptibility to maternal harsh parenting in predicting children’s temperament. Participants were 133 mother–child dyads (53% male children) from families oversampled for lower income, higher life stress, and child maltreatment risk. Mothers reported harsh parenting at age 3 and children’s temperament, including ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Maternal depressive symptoms and affective responses to infant crying and laughing.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 1026-1036; doi:10.1037/fam0001128Depressive symptoms are common in the postpartum period and can affect mother–infant interaction. To better understand the role of depressive symptoms in the mother–infant interchange, this study examined whether maternal depressive symptoms are associated with self-reported, physiological, and facial expressive responses to infant crying and laughing sounds. A nonclinical sample was used, consisting of 101 mothers (Age M = 30.88 years, 33% scored 7 or higher on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) with a young child. Mothers were ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
LGBTQ Caregiver Acceptance Scale (LCAS): Development and validation with a Latinx sample.
We present the development and initial validation of the LGBTQ Caregiver Acceptance Scale (LCAS) with a Latinx sample. We developed items based on a review of the literature, expert feedback (N = 9), and community member feedback (N = 9; Study 1). We then assessed the factor structure through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in a sample of 215 Latinx caregivers of LGBTQ people (Study 2). The final LCAS consists of 40 items and six dimensions of Latinx caregivers’ acceptance and rejection of their LGBTQ child/family member: Outness, Caregiver Acceptance, Concealment, Respeto, Attitudes Toward Queer Parenting, and Support...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Racial/ethnic differences in parenting behaviors among depressed parents.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 763-773; doi:10.1037/fam0001125Low parental warmth and high control are associated with parental depression and with the development of depression in children. The majority of this research, however, has focused on non-Hispanic White (NHW) parents. The present study tested whether parenting behaviors differed by race/ethnicity in a sample (N = 169) of parents with a history of depression. Participants were drawn from a randomized trial designed to prevent depression in at-risk adolescents (ages 9–15 years old). All participating parents had a current or past depressive e...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Revisiting implications of early family economic conditions for adolescent adaptations: An integrative cascade model.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 174-188; doi:10.1037/fam0001124Implications of family economic conditions (FECs) for child development have been extensively examined. What remains sparse is research spanning multiple life stages to delineate the far-reaching influences of early FECs for child subsequent development in different domains and how various family stress and investment processes jointly account for such association. To address these gaps, using data from 929 families in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD Early Chi...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The relationship between narcissistic traits and attitudes toward infidelity: A dyadic analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 932-941; doi:10.1037/fam0001126Previous research suggested that narcissism is associated with infidelity and reduced commitment in relationships. However, the majority of studies supporting this association were conducted among individuals and did not examine dyadic paths and also conceptualized and measured narcissism as a global variable, lacking a nuance perspective of the two traits of narcissism (i.e., grandiose and vulnerable). The present study sought to examine attitudes toward infidelity from a dyadic perspective, using narcissism personality traits (grandiose and...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A test of the instability hypothesis in low- and middle-income countries.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 786-795; doi:10.1037/fam0001118The instability hypothesis proposes that family structure transitions lead to negative child outcomes through the pathway of stress. However, in many cases, family structure transitions are not associated with stress or negative child outcomes, suggesting that there are specific circumstances under which transitions are more or less stressful. Using five rounds of data (ages 1–15) from the Young Lives study (N = 8,062) which follows children and their caregivers in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, we had two aims: (a) to test the instabi...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prenatal buds of conditional regard and autonomy support: Associations with postnatal parenting and child adjustment.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 104-117; doi:10.1037/fam0001101Toddlerhood is a period where issues of autonomy and control in parent–child relationships become particularly intense. In response to these challenges, some parents adopt controlling practices, whereas others are more autonomy supportive. However, research has yet to examine prenatal orientations that foreshadow specific controlling or autonomy-supportive parental practices in toddlerhood and children’s socioemotional functioning. In particular, literature on early childhood socialization lacks sufficient evidence on the effects of the c...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dyadic parent–college student digital interaction styles.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(6), Sep 2023, 864-874; doi:10.1037/fam0001117Parents and their emerging adult children are highly connected via mobile phones in the digital age. This digital connection has potential implications for the development of autonomy and sustained parent–child relatedness across the course of emerging adulthood. The present study uses the qualitatively coded content of nearly 30,000 U.S. parent–college student text messages, exchanged by 238 college students and their mothers and fathers over the course of 2 weeks, to identify distinct dyadic parent–emerging adult digital interaction s...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“We’re treading water as best we can”: A qualitative study of parental resilience during COVID-19.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(5), Aug 2023, 581-591; doi:10.1037/fam0001123This Ontario-based study utilized modified grounded theory to consider the potential burden of chronic stressors on parents of young children during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as parental experiences of coping and resilience. Cross-sectional interviews at a single point in time do not reveal change and adaptation during an evolving pandemic; for this reason, this study conducted one interview at the end of the first wave of the pandemic in Ontario and a second interview a year and a half later. Twenty parents participated in two interviews,...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
