Maternal psychological distress and children’s adjustment problems: Mediation by household chaos.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1213-1219; doi:10.1037/fam0001143Research over many decades has considered the crucial role of maternal psychological distress (e.g., depression, anxiety) for children’s psychological adjustment (externalizing and internalizing problems), suggesting bidirectional influences over time. However, little is known about the extent to which household chaos (e.g., noise, disorganization, lack of calm) may mediate this mutual association, despite an understanding that chaos is a powerful stressor in the home. Conducting secondary data analysis in a large scale, prospective longi...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Linking observing and nonreactivity mindfulness to parenting: Moderated direct and indirect effects via inhibitory control.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 71-81; doi:10.1037/fam0001152To disentangle the effects of key dimensions of dispositional mindfulness on parenting, the present study tests the hypotheses that parental Nonreactivity moderates the association between Observing and effective parenting behaviors, and that parental inhibitory control mediates the relationship between Observing and parenting depending on levels of Nonreactivity. The sample consists of 294 fathers (95.9% deployed) and 313 mothers (81.5% nondeployed) from 336 military families with a child aged between 4 and 13 years at baseline. Parents report...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Family-based and external discrimination experienced by multiracial individuals: Links to internalizing symptoms and familial support.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 48-58; doi:10.1037/fam0001153Multiracial individuals are exposed to many forms of interpersonal racial discrimination, including general discrimination against their monoracial groups and discrimination against being multiracial. Because their families include members of different racial groups, multiracial people may also be exposed to various forms of discrimination from within the family. In the present study, we leverage recent advances in latent profile analysis to identify distinct patterns of family-based and external (i.e., from outside the family unit) discriminat...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A randomized controlled trial to improve fathering among fathers with substance use disorders: Fathering in recovery intervention.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1303-1314; doi:10.1037/fam0001134In early recovery for substance use disorders (SUDs), fathers may experience a desire to become more active in their role as a parent but may need support in using effective parenting strategies. Parent management training programs may be effective for fathers in recovery from SUD as they have been shown to improve parenting knowledge, self-efficacy, parenting practices, and child behavior, as well as decrease parent substance use. Using the Parent Management Training-Oregon model, we adapted a video-based program for text delivery to fathe...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Independently planned parenthood: Sexual identity and evaluations of single-parenthood-by-choice.
This study examined attitudes toward independently planned parenthood and willingness to consider independently planned parenthood as a function of gender and sexual identity. Participants included 631 cisgender young adults (201 lesbian/gay, 430 heterosexual) living in the United States. Women had more positive attitudes toward independently planned parenthood than men, and lesbian and gay people had more positive attitudes toward independently planned parenthood than heterosexual people. Gay men were more willing to consider becoming parents independently than heterosexual men, but there were no significant differences b...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Associations between parental depression, communication, and self-worth of siblings bereaved by cancer.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1190-1199; doi:10.1037/fam0001137A child’s death from cancer may increase the risk for poor self-worth in bereaved siblings. Furthermore, bereaved parents may experience depressive symptoms and communicate differently with their surviving children. However, limited research has examined family factors associated with self-worth in bereaved siblings. Thus, we examined: (a) differences in parental depressive symptoms, parent–child communication, and sibling self-worth between bereaved and nonbereaved families and (b) indirect effects of parental depressive symptoms and c...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - September 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Family financial socialization during emerging adulthood: Insights from a cross-lagged panel model.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 161-173; doi:10.1037/fam0001139The present study tested the Gudmunson and Danes (2011) family financial socialization model (FFSM) using three waves of longitudinal data gathered from a college cohort of emerging adults in the United States. Specifically, we aimed to test the validity of this model in emerging adulthood (Aim 1), to verify whether the effect of the parent’s socialization on a child’s end financial outcome is mediated by intermediary financial outcomes (Aim 2), and to verify whether the effects found when testing the FFSM are stable across time points (A...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Couples and concealable chronic illness: Investigating couples’ communication, coping, and relational well-being over time.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 38(1), Feb 2024, 136-148; doi:10.1037/fam0001136Couples managing chronic illnesses—the leading causes of death and disability in the United States—can experience challenges in their daily lives and relationships. Both couple members have reported lower satisfaction, greater burden, and communication difficulties. Many of these illnesses are nonvisible or concealable, increasing fear and uncertainty when sharing illness information, and reducing self-disclosure. These challenges can leave couples vulnerable to dissatisfaction and distress. In this longitudinal study, we integrated dyadi...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Relationship functioning moderates the link between history of childhood maltreatment and depression during pregnancy.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1272-1281; doi:10.1037/fam0001141Prenatal depression is a significant health issue associated with increased risk for poor mental and physical health outcomes among for both parents and their children. Having a history of childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk for prenatal depression. Although research suggests that romantic relationship functioning likely plays a role in the links between childhood maltreatment and prenatal depression, it remains to be tested which aspects of relationship functioning modulate these associations. Using an actor–partner ...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is there intergenerational continuity in early life experiences? Findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1123-1136; doi:10.1037/fam0001144There has been longstanding and widespread interdisciplinary interest in understanding intergenerational processes, or the extent to which conditions repeat themselves across generations. However, due to the difficulty of collecting longitudinal, multigenerational data on early life conditions, less is known about the extent to which offspring experience the same early life conditions that their parents experienced in their own early lives. Using data from a socioeconomically diverse, White U.S. American cohort of 1,312 offspring (50% femal...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parents’ judgments of children’s gender-typed play indicate qualities of the early-life caregiving environment.
This study examined typologies of caregivers’ judgments toward their infants’ future engagement with toys and activities considered typical of same- and different-gender peers, and whether these judgments indicated qualities of the child-rearing environment. We conducted a latent profile analysis on a sample of 501 families with infant children in a large city in the Western United States (501 mothers, 388 fathers; 69% White, 16% Latinx, 8% African American). Results showed that parents could be classified as androgynous, stereotyped, counterstereotyped, or gender-impartial in their preferences for their child’s toys...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cognitive and psychophysiological predictors of inductive and physical discipline among parents of preschool-aged children.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 1115-1121; doi:10.1037/fam0001140Physical discipline increases children’s risk of showing externalizing problems, whereas inductive discipline is negatively associated with children’s risk of externalizing problems. Studies of parenting infrequently examine both positive and negative discipline techniques despite use of inductive and physical discipline being inversely related to each other and to child externalizing problems. A burgeoning literature on the biopsychosocial determinants of parenting is identifying cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying the in...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental harsh discipline in intergenerational transmission of anxiety in China: A longitudinal actor–partner interdependence analysis.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(8), Dec 2023, 1159-1168; doi:10.1037/fam0001142The present study investigated the intergenerational transmission of anxiety from both mothers and fathers to children in Chinese migrant families and the mediating roles of both parents’ harsh discipline (psychological aggression and corporal punishment). Four hundred seventy nine intact families with at least one migrant child were followed prospectively, with data collected from multiple informants at three time points half a year apart. A longitudinal multiple mediation model in combination with an actor–partner interdependent model...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 1072-1082; doi:10.1037/fam0001138Stress is a potent disruptor of parents’ emotional well-being and interactions with their children. In the context of the early months of the unfolding pandemic, parents’ stress likely fluctuated, with downstream impacts on their parenting experiences. The sample consisted of 72 Latina mothers who participated in a 15–20-min phone interview roughly once a month between March 2020 and January 2021. Mothers were asked about their experiences of stress, the quality of partner support, and their emotional experience of parenting. Analyses...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental drinking and observations of parent–child problem-solving discussions: Do drinking motives matter?
Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 37(7), Oct 2023, 993-1004; doi:10.1037/fam0001135Alcohol is often used for emotion-regulation purposes, yet there has been little research on how emotion-regulation drinking motives relate to parenting. The present study addresses this gap by investigating possible interactions between parent drinking and drinking motives in the prediction of parenting and child affectivity during a problem-solving interaction. Participants included 199 two-parent families with a child between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Mothers and fathers self-reported their drinking and drinking motivations, and each pa...
Source: Journal of Family Psychology - August 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research