Pretreatment relationship characteristics predict outcomes from an uncontrolled trial of intensive, multicouple group PTSD treatment.
This study investigated whether pretreatment partner accommodation and relationship satisfaction predicted patient and partner treatment outcomes from an uncontrolled trial of an abbreviated, intensive, multicouple group version of CBCT for PTSD conducted with 24 active-duty military or veteran couples (96% male patients/female partners). In general, changes in patients’ PTSD and comorbid symptoms and relationship satisfaction did not vary by pretreatment partner accommodation or patients’ own pretreatment relationship satisfaction. In contrast, pretreatment relationship characteristics predicted partner outcomes. Part...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Longitudinal associations between inhibitory control, gratitude, and positive parenting during early childhood.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 495-501; doi:10.1037/fam0001201Children’s inhibitory control, which refers to the capability to recognize social and task demands by suppressing inappropriate behavior, is a key element closely related to both external and internal issues in preschoolers. The protective roles of parenting factors and social and moral functions, such as gratitude, remain unknown in the mechanism of inhibitory control. The present study employed a general cross-lagged panel model to explore the relationships between positive parenting, child gratitude, and inhibitory control. The research ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parenting behaviors, inhibitory control, and aggression: Moderation by serotonin receptor 2A haplotypes.
This study utilized a longitudinal sample of adolescents (n = 1,047, 50.2% females, Mage = 13.32 ± 0.48 years at Time 1) to examine the effects of positive and negative parenting on aggression, as mediated by inhibitory control and moderated by the serotonin receptor 2A (5-HTR2A) haplotype. Mediation analysis revealed that inhibitory control indirectly mediated the link between both positive and negative parenting and overt aggression but not relational aggression. Further, the indirect effect of negative parenting on overt aggression via inhibitory control was moderated by the 5-HTR2A haplotype. Compared to adolescents c...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - February 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Worrying about our children: Parental worry and psychological well-being among Korean middle-aged couples.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 476-483; doi:10.1037/fam0001190When children reach a certain age of maturity, middle-aged parents often reflect on their parenting, harboring continuous worries about their adult children. These parenting experiences are also shared within couples and continue to impact parents’ well-being. Utilizing couple data from the 2010 Korean Baby Boomer Panel Study, we examined the dyadic associations of worry about child issues and psychological well-being among middle-aged couples (N = 1,091; aged 47–55) who have at least one adult child (Mage = 23.13 years). Results from the...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Predictors of veteran attendance in an intimate partner violence intervention.
This study examined session attendance data from 2,754 veterans who participated in a national implementation of a trauma-informed intimate partner violence intervention, Strength at Home, across the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Potential correlates of attendance were demographic characteristics, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity, alcohol use, court involvement, current military involvement, and intervention modality (in-person vs. virtual). Given the trauma-informed nature of the intervention, it was expected that trauma-relevant risk factors, specifically PTSD symptom severity and racial minori...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal autonomy support and child defeat predicting child behavioral adjustment.
This study examines mother–child mutual regulation processes during a challenging puzzle task as predictors of preschoolers’ behavioral adjustment 6 months later in a Chinese sample (N = 101, 46 boys, Mage = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). Mother–child mutual regulation was measured by the moment-to-moment bidirectional within-person associations between maternal autonomy support and child defeat (i.e., expression of frustration, incapacity to complete the task, or giving up). Children whose mother provided more autonomy support after increases of child defeat showed lower levels of externalizing problems 6 months later, a...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental differential warmth, hostility, and sibling differences in internalizing and externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 387-399; doi:10.1037/fam0001194Parental differential treatment (PDT) of siblings is associated with differences in children’s behavioral adjustment. The current meta-analysis examined the extent to which associations between relative PDT and sibling differences in behavior problems differ by type of parenting behavior (i.e., differential hostility vs. differential warmth) and type of behavior problems (i.e., differential externalizing vs. internalizing behavior problems). In September 2021, we systematically searched APA PsycInfo and Web of Science, yielding 2,259 unique...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A day in the life: Couples’ everyday communication and subsequent relationship outcomes.
This study tested associations between data-driven categories of couple communication behaviors and relationship outcomes (i.e., relationship aggression, satisfaction, and dissolution) at Time 2 (T2), approximately 1 year later. Emerging adults in different-gender dating couples (n = 106 couples; 212 individuals; Mage = 22.57 ± 2.44; M relationship length = 30.49 months ± 24.05; 72.2% non-White) were each provided a smartphone programmed to audio record approximately 50% of a typical day. Interactions between partners were transcribed and coded for location, activity, affect, and a range of positive and negative communic...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Maternal executive function and stress and children’s behavior problem treatment outcomes.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 377-386; doi:10.1037/fam0001191This prospective, observational study was designed to investigate the relationship of mothers’ executive function capacities and parenting stress to early dropout, appointment attendance, and outcomes of in-clinic delivery of parent management training to address children’s behavior problems. We hypothesized that mothers’ executive functions (EFs) would be prospectively and positively associated with adherence to children’s behavioral treatment appointments and reduction in children’s behavior problems and that mothers’ stress lev...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Undoing mothers’ avoidant coping with children’s negative emotion: A randomized controlled trial of relational savoring.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 365-376; doi:10.1037/fam0001186Some mothers report using avoidant coping strategies (minimizing, punishing) in response to their young children’s negative emotion, an aspect of insensitive parenting that places children at risk for emotional or behavioral dysregulation (Fabes et al., 2001) and insecure attachment (De Wolff & van Ijzendoorn, 1997). In prior work, an in-home attachment-based relational savoring (RS) intervention, administered over a month’s time, positively affected maternal emotion and sensitive behavior with young children (Borelli et al., 2023); furth...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Self-expansion perceptions and behaviors uniquely contribute to relationship quality over time.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 484-494; doi:10.1037/fam0001188Self-expansion refers to the process of broadening the self via engaging in novel activities, gaining new skills, and acquiring new perspectives and is proposed to be driven in large part by one’s close relationships. Self-expansion experiences include perceptions of potential (i.e., beliefs about how self-expanding a relationship could be in the future), perceptions of current experiences (i.e., beliefs about how self-expanding a relationship is present), and enacted behaviors (i.e., engagement in novel, interesting activities). In two pre...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Discrimination, gender, and class: An intersectional investigation of Black Americans’ personal and relational well-being.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 466-475; doi:10.1037/fam0001173Discrimination is a chronic stressor for Black Americans that occurs alongside other social positions and has implications for personal and relational well-being. Using data from the Survey of Midlife in the United States, this study examined the relative and multiplicative effects of gender and financial strain on the links between discrimination and personal and relational well-being among Black Americans in romantic relationships (N = 443). Results indicate that financial strain was associated with poorer personal well-being and that being...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Developmental pathways of the family bereavement program to promote growth 15 years after parental death.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(3), Apr 2024, 355-364; doi:10.1037/fam0001189Although parental death increases the risks of negative developmental outcomes, some individuals report personal growth, an outcome that has received little attention. We tested a developmental cascade model of postloss growth in 244 parentally bereaved youth (ages 8–16 at baseline) from 156 families who participated in a randomized controlled trial of a family-based intervention, the Family Bereavement Program (FBP). Using five waves of data, the present study examined the prospective associations between the quality of parenting immediate...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parenting young children during COVID-19: Parenting stress trajectories, parental mental health, and child problem behaviors.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 296-308; doi:10.1037/fam0001181Parenting stress reflects a discrepancy between a parent’s perception of their resources, the demands of their child’s needs, and the caregiving relationship and contexts (Abidin, 1992). Parenting stress can increase the risk of issues in the parent–child relationship, as well as child behavioral and emotional outcomes (Neece et al., 2012; Spinelli et al., 2021). Chronic stressors, such as living through the COVID-19 pandemic, have the potential to increase the demands of parenting and thus parenting stress. Using latent growth curve mo...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parenting and disruptive child behavior: A daily diary study during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We examined how mothers’ daily parenting cognitions and behaviors implicated by different theoretical perspectives (i.e., relational, learning theory, and cognitive perspectives) associated in linear or nonlinear ways with disruptive child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined levels of heterogeneity between families in these patterns and whether this heterogeneity could be explained by mother and child characteristics. Mothers of 150 children, 3–8 years; 48% girls; 68% (sub)clinical conduct problems, completed 14 daily assessments (Nassessments = 1,993). Multilevel models indicate significant associations...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research