A qualitative analysis of black mother preparation for bias messages following incidents of racism-related violence.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 38-47; doi:10.1037/fam0001162Preparation for bias messages (PFB), represent a specific form of racial socialization, used to inform youth about racism and how to cope with racism-related adversity. Although research commonly examines how frequently PFB are delivered to children, few studies have qualitatively explored the heterogeneity in the content of such messages, making it difficult to ascertain how caregivers prepare and coach their children to negotiate incidents of racism-related violence. To address this gap in the literature, the present study qualitatively exami...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Correction to Ju et al. (2023).
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 - October 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beyond success: Understanding the characteristics of long-term relationships in older age.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 17-25; doi:10.1037/fam0001157Prior research has focused on couples who were successful in maintaining a long-term relationship. However, there is a knowledge gap in what characterizes late-life long-term partnerships and what holds them together. Using the grounded theory, we analyzed 29 interviews with 65+ year olds (11 men, age median = 72) who were in relationships of 25+ years. We explored the present state of the relationship, looking beyond the understanding that long-term relationships, by virtue of being long, are successful. Older people saw their partnerships as ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Nonresidential fatherhood and father–child relationships among Curaçaoan and Dutch adolescents and young adults.
This study examined associations between nonresidential fatherhood and father–child relationship quality and fathers’ parenting behaviors among Curaçaoan and Dutch adolescents and young adults. Curaçaoan (n = 450) and Dutch (n = 585) participants completed a digital questionnaire in class, using the same procedures on Curaçao and in the Netherlands. We estimated structural equation models of perceived avoidant and anxious father–child attachment and paternal emotional warmth, rejection, and monitoring for both groups separately because of measurement variance across countries. Nonresidential fatherhood was unrelat...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intergenerational patterns of attachment in custodial grandfamilies.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1148-1158; doi:10.1037/fam0001150The present study aimed to identify intergenerational patterns of attachment insecurity among grandmothers, adolescent grandchildren, and birth mothers in custodial grandfamilies and to test the relations among triadic attachment patterns and grandchild socioemotional outcomes. Prior research with custodial grandfamilies has found distinct “profiles” reflecting patterns of closeness between grandmothers, grandchildren, and birth mothers. However, no studies have tested patterns of attachment insecurity among members of the triad, despit...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
I should not have had a child: Development and validation of the Parenthood Regret Scale.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1282-1293; doi:10.1037/fam0001158Parenthood is one of the most important social roles, but the consequences of becoming a parent are not always as expected. It is estimated that in developed countries, up to 5%–14% of parents regret their decision to have children and if they could turn back time, they would choose childlessness. While such a situation can have serious consequences for the entire family system, our knowledge of the causes and consequences of regretting parenthood is very limited. Beyond the possible taboo, one factor that is certainly responsible for the...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coparenting, parental anxiety/depression, and child behavior problems: The actor–partner interdependence model with low-income married couples.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1230-1240; doi:10.1037/fam0001160A considerable amount of research has suggested significant associations among perceived coparenting relationships, parental anxiety/depression, and children’s adjustment. Although family members’ function is influenced by other members in a shared context, much of the prior work relied on one parent’s perspective to examine the relationship between both parents. To address this important limitation, we applied the actor–partner interdependence model and accounted for the interdependence between fathers and mothers in examining the ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The intergenerational transmission of economic adversity, BMI, and emotional distress from adolescence to middle adulthood.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1137-1147; doi:10.1037/fam0001155The present study examined the intergenerational transmission of economic adversity, as well as physical and mental health across generations. Specifically, we examined the effects of parental economic adversity, body mass index (BMI), and emotional distress during the child’s adolescence on their economic adversity, BMI, and emotional distress in middle adulthood. The study included 366 Generation 1 (G1) mothers and fathers and their adolescents (Generation 2; G2) in middle adulthood. G1 behavior was examined when G2 was 16 years old and...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - October 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental guilt and children’s internalizing and externalizing behavior: The moderating role of parental reflective functioning.
In this study, we examined the association between children’s externalizing and internalizing problems and different aspects of parental guilt, assessing whether parental reflective functioning (PRF) would moderate these associations. One hundred six parents of children aged 1.30–9.30 years were recruited from child daycare centers and community clinics. The Parent Development Interview was administered to measure PRF. Based on this interview, we created a new coding system, to quantify three aspects of parental guilt: intensity, reparation, and internal reaction to guilt. Children’s difficulties as well as parents...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The association between marital satisfaction and coparenting quality: A meta-analysis.
The objective of this study was to summarize and analyze current evidence regarding the association between MS and coparenting quality (CQ). Meta-analyses of 108 published and unpublished articles were conducted to evaluate the association between MS and CQ. In the meta-analysis of samples including both mothers and fathers, a medium association was found between MS and CQ, r = .41; 95% CI [.37, .44]; Q(88) = 1253.42. Separate meta-analyses of samples including only mothers and only fathers and an analog analysis of variance examining the moderating effect of parent gender found larger effects for mothers (r = .48) than fa...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Hispanic adolescents’ internalizing symptoms and positive family functioning: A bidirectional examination of associations over time.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 345-354; doi:10.1037/fam0001154Open communication with parents, defined as perceived ease of adolescent–parent disclosure, and family support are components of positive family functioning linked with fewer adolescent internalizing symptoms. However, relatively little is known about bidirectional pathways over time. Even less is known about bidirectional pathways for Hispanic adolescents or about the role of adolescent and parent gender. Therefore, this study examined bidirectional pathways between positive family functioning and adolescent internalizing symptoms over tim...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(2), Mar 2024, 333-344; doi:10.1037/fam0001133Parenting that is high in rejection and low in acceptance is associated with higher levels of internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) problems in children and adolescents. These symptoms develop and can increase in severity to negatively impact adolescents’ social, academic, and emotional functioning. However, there are two major gaps in the extant literature: (a) nearly all prior research has focused on between-person differences in acceptance/rejection at the expense of examining intraindividual variability (IIV) across time in accept...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trauma-informed parenting intervention for veterans: A preliminary uncontrolled trial of Strength at Home–Parents.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1294-1302; doi:10.1037/fam0001131Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly prevalent in military and veteran populations and are associated with parenting difficulties. Unfortunately, there is a lack of accessible, trauma-informed, and evidence-based parenting support interventions within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Strength at Home–Parents (SAHP) is a trauma-informed psychotherapy group that aims to improve parenting behaviors and overall parent–child and family functioning among U.S. military veterans with PTSD symptoms. SAHP wa...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A longitudinal study of families created using egg donation: Family functioning at age 5.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1253-1265; doi:10.1037/fam0001145Findings are reported from Phase 2 of a longitudinal study of family functioning in heterosexual-couple families with 5 year olds conceived using identity-release egg donation. Seventy-two egg donation families were compared to 50 in vitro fertilization (IVF) families (ethnicity: 93% White British) using standardized observational, interview, and questionnaire measures. There were no differences between family types in the quality of mother–child or father–child interaction, apart from lower structuring by fathers in egg donation famili...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral adjustment: The role of negative parental emotional states.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1220-1229; doi:10.1037/fam0001151The contribution of fathers and family dynamics to the deleterious effects of mothers’ depressive symptoms on children’s behavioral adjustment has been evaluated in this study. Using longitudinal data spanning from toddlerhood to grade school (N = 1,311), this study examined whether negative emotional states in both parents related to mothers’ cumulative depressive symptoms during the early years of children were associated with children’s later internalizing and externalizing problems in grade school. A random intercept cross-lagge...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
