To put asunder: Are there perils of partialing in actor–partner interdependence models?
This study of 300 couples utilized participants’ interpersonal circumplex ratings of partners’ typical behavior during marital interactions to evaluate the interpersonal meaning of unadjusted and partialed forms of the Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), a measure of overall relationship quality, and the Quality of Relationships Inventory-Support (QRI-S) and Conflict (QRI-C) scales, which measured perceived support from and conflict with the partner. After partialing partners’ scores, MAT and QRI-S scores were substantially less closely associated with ratings of partners’ warmth, their primary expected interpersonal co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Daily relationship satisfaction and depressed mood: The moderating roles of support satisfaction, over- and underprovision.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(8), Dec 2022, 1439-1450; doi:10.1037/fam0000998Research on the impact of romantic partner social support on depressed mood and relationship satisfaction focuses primarily on the discrepancies between actual and desired frequency of support behaviors, which are conceptualized as social support over- and underprovision. However, frequency counts of support behaviors neglect other potentially important qualities of those behaviors, such as whether the support behaviors, however frequent, are satisfying, or even occurring in relevant domains. In the present study, 62 opposite-sex couples co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dyadic associations between perceived social support and psychological well-being in caregivers and older care recipients.
This study aimed to determine dyadic associations between caregivers’ and care recipients’ perceived social support from others (e.g., family and friends) and psychological well-being as a dyad. Caregivers and care recipients (N = 215 dyads) in this cross-sectional study were recruited by pensioner trade unions in Italy. Both members of the dyad completed the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5). Social support was measured with the Carers of Older People in Europe Index for caregivers and the Oslo-3 Scale for care recipients. Dyadic data were analyzed with the actor–partner interdependence model. ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

To put asunder: Are there perils of partialing in actor–partner interdependence models?
This study of 300 couples utilized participants’ interpersonal circumplex ratings of partners’ typical behavior during marital interactions to evaluate the interpersonal meaning of unadjusted and partialed forms of the Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), a measure of overall relationship quality, and the Quality of Relationships Inventory-Support (QRI-S) and Conflict (QRI-C) scales, which measured perceived support from and conflict with the partner. After partialing partners’ scores, MAT and QRI-S scores were substantially less closely associated with ratings of partners’ warmth, their primary expected interpersonal co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Daily relationship satisfaction and depressed mood: The moderating roles of support satisfaction, over- and underprovision.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(8), Dec 2022, 1439-1450; doi:10.1037/fam0000998Research on the impact of romantic partner social support on depressed mood and relationship satisfaction focuses primarily on the discrepancies between actual and desired frequency of support behaviors, which are conceptualized as social support over- and underprovision. However, frequency counts of support behaviors neglect other potentially important qualities of those behaviors, such as whether the support behaviors, however frequent, are satisfying, or even occurring in relevant domains. In the present study, 62 opposite-sex couples co...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dyadic associations between perceived social support and psychological well-being in caregivers and older care recipients.
This study aimed to determine dyadic associations between caregivers’ and care recipients’ perceived social support from others (e.g., family and friends) and psychological well-being as a dyad. Caregivers and care recipients (N = 215 dyads) in this cross-sectional study were recruited by pensioner trade unions in Italy. Both members of the dyad completed the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5). Social support was measured with the Carers of Older People in Europe Index for caregivers and the Oslo-3 Scale for care recipients. Dyadic data were analyzed with the actor–partner interdependence model. ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The influence of children’s effortful control on parent–child behavioral synchrony.
Discussion centers on the importance of children’s individual differences in shaping parent–child synchrony and potential implications for children’s developing self-regulation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Family Psychology)
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Effects of parental involvement programs on young children’s academic and social–emotional outcomes: A meta-analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(8), Dec 2022, 1329-1339; doi:10.1037/fam0000992Parental involvement is a key ingredient in school policy and various parental involvement programs aim at raising children’s school success. Adding to existing meta-analyses summarizing the findings on the effectiveness of parental involvement programs, we included academic and nonacademic outcomes, and analyzed the correspondence between changes in parents’ involvement and changes in children’s outcomes. We synthesized findings regarding the effectiveness of parental involvement interventions for children’s academic and nonacademi...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Examining social genetic effects on educational attainment via parental educational attainment, income, and parenting.
In this study, we incorporated genotypic and phenotypic information from fathers, mothers, and offspring to disentangle the genetic and socioenvironmental pathways underlying this association. Data were drawn from a sample of individuals of European ancestry from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (n = 4,089; 51% female). Results from path analysis indicated that paternal and maternal educational attainment genome-wide polygenic scores were associated with offspring educational attainment, above and beyond the effect of offspring education polygenic score. Parental educational attainment, income, and par...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ideas about family formation among Chinese international students of diverse sexual identities.
In this study, we investigated ways in which ideas about family formation among Chinese international students were associated with personal, interpersonal, and cultural factors. In total, 265 childless Chinese international students (Mage = 23 years; all cisgender) in the United States participated in an online survey; 210 self-identified as heterosexual and 55 as sexual minority individuals. Results showed that sexual minority students chose older ideal ages for marriage and parenthood than did heterosexual students. Moreover, sexual minority students were more likely to see the United States and other regions where same...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Future parenting aspirations and minority stress in U.S. sexual minority adults.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 36(7), Oct 2022, 1173-1182; doi:10.1037/fam0001004Parenthood is an aspiration shared by a majority of U.S. adults. However, previous research has found that sexual minority adults (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual [LGB]) are less likely than heterosexual counterparts to be parents or desire to become parents in the future. To date, few studies have examined how minority stress (i.e., everyday discrimination [ED], felt stigma [FS], and internalized homophobia [IH]) influences parenting desire, parenting likelihood, and expectation a gap between the two. Even fewer studies have examined the pare...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ideas about family formation among Chinese international students of diverse sexual identities.
In this study, we investigated ways in which ideas about family formation among Chinese international students were associated with personal, interpersonal, and cultural factors. In total, 265 childless Chinese international students (Mage = 23 years; all cisgender) in the United States participated in an online survey; 210 self-identified as heterosexual and 55 as sexual minority individuals. Results showed that sexual minority students chose older ideal ages for marriage and parenthood than did heterosexual students. Moreover, sexual minority students were more likely to see the United States and other regions where same...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Future parenting aspirations and minority stress in U.S. sexual minority adults.
Parenthood is an aspiration shared by a majority of U.S. adults. However, previous research has found that sexual minority adults (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual [LGB]) are less likely than heterosexual counterparts to be parents or desire to become parents in the future. To date, few studies have examined how minority stress (i.e., everyday discrimination [ED], felt stigma [FS], and internalized homophobia [IH]) influences parenting desire, parenting likelihood, and expectation a gap between the two. Even fewer studies have examined the parenting aspirations of sexual minority individuals following nationwide legalization o...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research