On categorizing intimate partner violence: A systematic review of exploratory clustering and classification studies.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(5), Aug 2023, 743-752; doi:10.1037/fam0001075Many theorists have proposed that intimate partner violence (IPV) is not one homogeneous phenomenon but instead has several distinct types. For example, Johnson (1995) typology described some perpetrators’ violence as stemming from a desire to control and others’ violence stemming from emotional dysregulation, whereas Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart’s (1994) typology classified perpetrators by severity of violence, whether violence was specific to intimate partners and perpetrators’ psychopathological profiles. Other typologies are based...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Caregiver emotion regulation predicts trajectories of psychopathology during pediatric cancer treatment.
This study examines whether caregivers’ resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and observed emotion regulation (ER) are protective against caregiver and child psychopathology during the first year of pediatric cancer treatment. Primary caregivers of children recently diagnosed with cancer (N = 159; child Mage = 5.6 years; children 48% male, 52% female) completed 12 monthly questionnaires. At Month 3, primary caregivers were interviewed about their experiences of emotions, and their resting RSA was measured. Data were analyzed using multilevel models. Observed ER was associated with lower caregiver anxiety, depression...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parent and adolescent emotional variability and adolescent psychopathology.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(4), Jun 2023, 538-546; doi:10.1037/fam0001069Emotional variability has been posited as a risk factor for adolescent psychopathology. However, it is unclear whether parent emotional variability may also function as a risk factor that heightens adolescent mental health problems. To fill this gap, the present study examined whether parent and adolescent emotional variability in both positive emotion (PE) and negative emotion (NE) is associated with adolescent psychopathology and potential sex differences in these associations. Participants were 147 adolescents and their parents in Taiwan w...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Household income differentiates quantity and quality of shared spousal time.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(4), Jun 2023, 528-537; doi:10.1037/fam0001078Shared time is a centrally important component of relationship maintenance, and over the past few decades, couples have reported spending increasingly more time together. However, over this same time period divorce rates have risen much higher for lower income couples compared to higher income couples. One theorized explanation for the disparity in divorce rates between lower and higher income couples is a difference across the socioeconomic strata in the quantity and quality of time couples spend together. This theory argues that lower incom...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Digital location tracking: A preliminary investigation of parents’ use of digital technology to monitor their adolescent’s location.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(4), Jun 2023, 561-567; doi:10.1037/fam0001067The emergence of digital technologies has changed the dynamic of parent–adolescent relationships. Parents can now use digital technologies to monitor their adolescent’s physical location. Yet, to date, no known research has examined the extent to which digital location tracking occurs in parent–adolescent dyads, and how tracking links to adolescent adjustment. The current research examined digital location tracking in a large sample of adolescents (N = 729; Mage = 15.03). Overall, about half of parents and adolescents reported digital l...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Household chaos and mother–adolescent communication.
This study examined how mother and adolescent perceptions of daily household chaos relate to adolescent disclosure of information to mothers. We also explored indirect effects through mother and adolescent responsiveness. Participants included 109 mother–adolescent dyads who completed a 7-day diary study (adolescent age 14–18 years, 49% female, 38% White, 25% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 7% Black, 13% multiple/other ethnicities). Multilevel models revealed that on days when adolescents reported more household chaos than usual, they were more likely to disclose information to their mothers. On days when mothers and adolescents ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - March 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Conflict and negotiation with preschoolers during family meals.
This study examined the occurrence of conflict and negotiation during the understudied context of family meals, examining both mother–child and father–child interactions with children aged 3–5 (n = 65). We investigated differences in parents’ sensitivity and children’s affect based on the occurrence of conflict and negotiation. Results indicated conflict was common with both parents, but particularly with mothers. Negotiation occurred less often: half of the time with mothers and a third of the time with fathers. Mothers were less sensitive and children more negative when mother–child conflict occurred; mothers...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental sensitivity predicts parent–adolescent agreement about peer victimization.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(4), Jun 2023, 554-560; doi:10.1037/fam0001066Effective parental responses to peer victimization may hinge on parental awareness of youths’ peer victimization experiences, yet predictors of parental awareness are understudied. We investigated the extent of parent–adolescent agreement about early adolescents’ peer victimization experiences as well as predictors of parent–adolescent agreement. Participants included a diverse community sample of early adolescents (N = 80; Mage = 12.36 years, SD = 1.33; 55% Black, 42.5% White, 2.5% other race/ethnicity) and their parents. Observer-ra...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Postmigration stress compromises refugee parents’ self-efficacy and autonomy-supportive parenting: An experience sampling study.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 295-304; doi:10.1037/fam0001059Refugee parents raise their adolescent children in a world that is different from the world they themselves grew up in, often experiencing postmigration stress. This may hamper parents’ confidence in their parenting skills and make it difficult for them to grant adolescent children the autonomy they desire and need. In this preregistered study, we aimed to advance our understanding of this process by examining, in daily life, whether postmigration stress contributes to less autonomy-supportive parenting through compromised feelings of paren...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Maternal executive function, authoritarian attitudes, and hostile attribution bias as interacting predictors of harsh parenting.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 388-397; doi:10.1037/fam0001065Executive function (EF) plays a key role in healthy development and human functioning across multiple domains, including socially, behaviorally, and in the self-regulation of cognition and emotion. Prior research has associated lower levels of maternal EF with harsher and more reactive parenting, and mothers’ social cognitive attributes like authoritarian child-rearing attitudes and hostile attribution biases also contribute to harsh parenting practices. There have been few studies that explore the intersection of maternal EF and social cog...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental burnout features and the family context: A temporal network approach in mothers.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 398-407; doi:10.1037/fam0001070Many parents have days where they encounter emotional exhaustion, emotional distance from their children, and feeling fed up with being a parent. Some parents experience these characteristics to a severe extent—a clinical phenomenon termed parental burnout. Parental burnout arises when parents chronically endure severe stress without sufficient resources to cope, which may lead to detrimental consequences not only for the parent but also for their partner (e.g., marital conflict) and children (i.e., neglect and violence). However, uncertain...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Correction to Ku and Feng (2021).
This study examined the prospective associations among the trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms, maternal sensitivity, and child executive function (EF) across early and middle childhood, and tested the mediating role of maternal sensitivity in the links between change in maternal depressive symptoms and the growth of child EF. Participants included 1,364 children and mothers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD). We found that maternal depressive symptoms (from 6 months to Grade 5) and sensitivity (from 36 months to ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
COVID-related stressors and their impact on parental sleep, parenting behaviors, and child functioning.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 305-317; doi:10.1037/fam0001061This longitudinal study examined the impact on families of multiple stressors that emerged due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, we modeled the indirect effects of three stressors (i.e., the stress of new childcare and work demands, financial stress, and health-related stress assessed within the first month of the pandemic in the United States) on children’s functioning over the next 8 weeks via the mediating pathways of parental sleep quality and two forms of parenting (i.e., angry/hostile, constructive). The longitudinal sample of 70...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Transactional associations between infant negative emotionality and maternal sensitivity: Maternal emotion dysregulation as a moderator.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(3), Apr 2023, 369-379; doi:10.1037/fam0001060The relations between maternal sensitivity and infant negative emotionality have been tested extensively in the previous literature. However, the extent to which these associations reflect unidirectional or bidirectional effects over time remains somewhat uncertain. Further, the possibility that maternal characteristics moderate the extent to which infant negative emotionality predicts maternal sensitivity over time has yet to be tested in cross-lag models. The goal of the present study is to address these gaps. First time mothers (N = 259; 5...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Sexual health communication among Black father–daughter dyads: A grounded theory study.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(4), Jun 2023, 464-474; doi:10.1037/fam0001058Black young adults have disproportionately high rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) when compared with the national average. Although parent–child sexual health communication among Black families has been shown to reduce sexual risk-taking behaviors, far less is known about father–daughter sexual health communication when compared with communication among gender-congruent dyads and mothers. This dearth of knowledge hinders the development of sexual health interventions involving fathers that are sensitive to both the g...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
