Stigma and anxiety and depressive symptoms in parents of sexual and gender minority youth.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 201-211; doi:10.1037/fam0001183Parents of sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth play an important role in supporting their SGM child’s mental health in the face of stigma. Yet, parents of SGM youth may themselves experience stigma, including discrimination/rejection, and its emotional consequences, including vicarious stigma and shame. The present cross-sectional study leveraged a national sample of parents of SGM youth to investigate associations between parents’ stigma experiences and self-reported anxiety and depression symptoms. Further, we additionally explored s...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - January 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Couples communication and cancer: Sequences and trajectories of behavioral affective processes in relation to intimacy.
This study aims to expand our understanding of dyadic communication and intimacy to adapt and/or develop more effective interventions for couples coping with cancer. To accomplish this goal, the present study examined affective and behavioral processes associated with intimacy using the valence–affective–connection (VAC) framework and observational coding methods. Participants were 134 couples in which a patient was diagnosed with breast, colorectal, or lung cancer. Couples completed a battery of questionnaires, including a self-report measure of intimacy. Couples also completed a 15-min videotaped interaction about a ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Bidirectional associations between maternal homework involvement, adolescents’ academic motivation, and school well-being.
This study examined bidirectional associations between mothers’ homework involvement (autonomy support and psychological control in homework situations), Finnish adolescents’ academic motivation (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, amotivation), and school well-being (school satisfaction, school-related stress) across the transitions to lower and upper secondary school. The sample consisted of Finnish adolescents (n = 841; 457 girls; age 12 at T1) and their mothers (n = 652; T1). The results showed that increased levels of maternal psychological control in Grade 7 predicted adolescents’ decreased school satis...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Satisfaction with parental responsibilities and disorganized attachment among infants of mothers at risk for depression.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 212-222; doi:10.1037/fam0001179Growing attention has been placed on examining the family environment as antecedent of attachment, including the coparenting relationship. Parents’ satisfaction with the coparenting relationship may be particularly of interest when parents are at heightened risk for depression, as depression has been consistently linked to negative coparenting, poor quality of parenting, and insecure infant attachment. However, no study has examined the effects of parents’ satisfaction with the coparenting relationship on attachment. The present study exa...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental burnout, coparenting, and internalized sexual stigma during COVID-19 in parents with minoritized sexual identities.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 189-200; doi:10.1037/fam0001171The COVID-19 pandemic acted as a model of stressful situations for parents insofar as it led to unprecedented difficulties in childcare and caregiving, resulting in increased levels of parental burnout, worldwide. To date, research on parental burnout has mainly involved heterosexual parents. However, parents with minoritized sexual identities face partially different stressors, including internalized sexual stigma, and they also have partially different resources, including a more egalitarian division of childcare labor. Between April 2020 a...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To maintain or conceal one’s cultural identity? Chinese American parents’ ethnic–racial socialization during COVID-19.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 26-37; doi:10.1037/fam0001169Ethno-racially minoritized parents’ ethnic–racial socialization may center on encouraging their children to maintain or conceal their ethnic–racial identity, particularly during the period of heightened racism of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the underlying mechanisms that could explain Chinese American parents’ specific ethnic–racial socialization practices and the role of children’s developmental stage are not well understood. The present study examined: (a) the association between Chinese American parents’ racial discriminati...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - December 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Longitudinal pathways of maltreated young children: Family stress processes and adverse childhood experiences.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 309-319; doi:10.1037/fam0001163An important issue associated with at-risk families in the child welfare system is the impact of familial stress processes on child developmental outcomes. The present study used the family stress model (FSM) to examine the impact of economic hardship, economic pressure, caregiver emotional distress, caregiver/partner conflict, caregiver harsh parenting, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on child’s cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes. Data from the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being II were utilized, and 1,363 ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The “what” and “how” of father–teen talks about sex and relationships.
This study explored topics of and approaches to fathers’ talk with their teens about sex and relationships in interviews with a diverse sample of 43 fathers of high school-aged adolescents from across the United States. Interview data were analyzed using content analysis. The results showed how fathers talked with their adolescent children about topics of sexual behavior, risks of sex, dating and relationships, as well as less studied areas of diverse sexual and gender identities and consent, and how these conversations differed with male and female teens. Findings also showed that fathers took multiple approaches to tal...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood interpersonal trauma and postpartum parenting alliance: The role of mindfulness in couples.
This study provides insight on how parents of an infant may influence each other’s perceived parenting alliance through their dispositional mindfulness. Results also highlight mindfulness as a relevant mechanism for CCIT survivors who struggle to establish or maintain a positive parenting alliance, as well as the need to involve both parents in research and intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Family Psychology)
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental self-control facilitates adolescent psychological adjustment sequentially through parents’ perceived stress/mindful parenting and adolescent self-control.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 59-70; doi:10.1037/fam0001172Adolescence is a unique developmental period marked with significant changes and challenges. As such, maintaining optimal psychological adjustment is crucial for young people, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when their adjustment became more challenging. Self-control is a vital ability assisting individuals to navigate difficulties and stay well-adjusted during turbulent times. While the associations between adolescent self-control and adjustment have been well-documented, parental self-control has been considered to play a more fundame...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evaluating the effects of prenatal intervention on parenting in women exposed to intimate partner violence.
This study was a quasirandomized trial of the effects of PMEP on parenting. Participants were 137 pregnant women exposed to IPV in the past year; 82 received PMEP and 55 were in a no-treatment control condition. Participants completed four assessments (pretest [T1], posttest [T2], 3-month postpartum[T3], and 12-month postpartum [T4]). At T1–T4, women self-reported on their parenting attitudes (i.e., expectations of children, parental empathy, corporal punishment, parent–child family roles) and parenting confidence. At the postpartum assessments, mother–infant dyads participated in a videorecorded free play session th...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parenting of siblings in Latinx families during middle childhood.
This study’s goals were to describe dimensions of sibling-focused parenting and to examine sociocultural resources and challenges as potential correlates among Latinx mothers and fathers in 262 families with two children in middle childhood. Families were recruited from 11 public elementary schools, and caregivers (248 mother figures; 118 father figures) participated in a home visit and phone interviews at the onset of the study. Sibling-focused parenting included three dimensions: positive guidance (10 items), nonintervention (four items), and authoritarian control (five items). Parents rated positive guidance as their ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Connection at your fingertips: A first look at the Agapé app’s contributions to healthy relationships.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 1-16; doi:10.1037/fam0001166Although a range of relationship enhancement interventions have shown benefits, programs involving trained facilitators are difficult to scale and self-directed programs tend to suffer from low rates of adherence (i.e., nonuse/disuse attrition). The present study evaluated Agapé, a relationship wellness smartphone app optimized for broad dissemination through 4 years of persuasive system design driven by user feedback. Agapé builds moments of connection by providing daily prompts to couples and then showing them one another’s answers when bo...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of parenting program components on parental stress: A systematic review and component network meta-analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 320-332; doi:10.1037/fam0001161The present study tested the effectiveness and ranking of the different combinations of parenting program components in reducing parental stress at the first posttreatment measurement in treatment settings for parents of children with disruptive behaviors. Fifty-seven studies were identified. Six different combinations of parenting program components were compared to the inactive component (control group), based on five active components (psychoeducation [PE], behavior management [BM], relationship enhancement [RE], parental self-management [...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Maternal personality change from pregnancy until 12 months postpartum: Associations with parenting.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 129-135; doi:10.1037/fam0001168Although many studies have shown that personality—as a relatively stable characteristic—is a predictor of parenting behavior, personality changes occur during adulthood. Therefore, we do not know whether previous findings based on personality assessed (long) after the birth of the child indicate that personality as assessed before the child is born predicts behaviors parents eventually display. Possibly, personality changes are additionally predictive for parenting behavior. With this three-wave longitudinal study, we aimed to examine whe...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
