Does Paid Maternity Leave Affect Infant Development and Second ‐Birth Intentions?
We examined whether paid maternity leave in South Korea, which has a fertility rate among the lowest in the world, is directly related to infant development and employed mothers' second‐birth intentions, and indirectly associated with these outcomes via parenting stress. Participants included 315 married and employed Korean mothers in the months after giving birth to their first child. Paid maternity leave was beneficial for infant development but was not a solution for promoting second‐birth intentions among employed mothers in Korea. Parenting stress adversely affected both infant development and employed mothers' se...
Source: Family Relations - September 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Woosang Hwang, Eunjoo Jung Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Race as a Moderator of Associations Between Spanking and Child Outcomes
The cultural normativeness perspective argues that parenting practices such as spanking are more beneficial for children when they occur in cultural groups within which they are normative. Research on this issue in the United States has focused on race as a marker of culture, and findings have been mixed. The present study presents meta‐analyses of five studies that reported effect sizes separately for White (n = 11,814) and Black (n = 3,065) American children (5 to 14 years of age). Mean weighted effect sizes for both groups indicated statistically significant associations with detrimental outcomes; they were not statis...
Source: Family Relations - August 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Andrew Grogan ‐Kaylor Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Older Adult Descriptions of Living Apart Together
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Much can be learned about the nature and meaning of close relationships by studying language use. This qualitative study explores the process of defining relationships and choosing partner reference terms among an understudied population—living apart together (LAT) couples in older adulthood. Twenty‐five men and women aged 60 years and older were interviewed about their LAT relationships. Grounded theory analyses demonstrated that participants chose terms by trial and error through a process of meaning making. Terms associated with youth culture (e.g., girlfriend, boyfriend) were spurned, although they were co...
Source: Family Relations - August 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jacquelyn J. Benson, Marilyn Coleman Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Pathways to Adaptive Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents from Low ‐Income Families
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The current study examined pathways to adolescent anger and sadness regulation in low‐income families. The sample included 206 families with adolescents age 10–18 years. Using a multimethod, multi‐informant approach, we assessed neighborhood violence, mutual emotional support, parental emotion coaching, and anger and sadness regulation. The findings indicated that high levels of mutual emotional support and emotion coaching and low levels of neighborhood violence were correlated with adolescent emotion regulation. In addition, the analyses demonstrated multiple pathways to emotion regulation. Specifically, n...
Source: Family Relations - August 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael M. Criss, Amanda Sheffield Morris, Elisabeth Ponce ‐Garcia, Lixian Cui, Jennifer S. Silk Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Qualities of Character That Predict Marital Well ‐Being
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A growing body of literature has examined relations among qualities of character—or marital virtues—and marital outcomes. Results of past research have suggested positive relations between qualities such as generosity, kindness, and forgiveness, and marital well‐being. We expand on previous research by examining relations between three qualities of character and marital satisfaction with 1,513 respondents randomly selected from three states. Specifically, we examined the effects of participants' perceptions of their partners' humility, compassion, and positivity on their own marital satisfaction. Results ind...
Source: Family Relations - July 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: H. Wallace Goddard, Jonathan R. Olson, Adam M. Galovan, David G. Schramm, James P. Marshall Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Can We Fix This? Parent –Child Repair Processes and Preschoolers' Regulatory Skills
The repair of difficult parent–child interactions is a marker of healthy functioning in infancy, but less is known about repair processes during early childhood. We used dynamic systems methods to investigate dyadic repair in mothers and their 3‐year‐old children (N = 96) and its prediction of children's emotion regulation and behavior problems at a 4‐month follow‐up. Mothers and children completed free play and challenging puzzle tasks. Repair was operationalized as the conditional probability of moving into a dyadic adaptive behavior region after individual or dyadic maladaptive behavior (e.g., child noncom...
Source: Family Relations - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christine J. Kemp, Erika Lunkenheimer, Erin C. Albrecht, Deborah Chen Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Boundary Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Military Family Reintegration
Although more than 2 million service members have experienced deployment since 2001, predictors of postdeployment family functioning remain unclear. Utilizing the Contextual Model of Family Stress (Boss, 2002), this study examined military‐related factors (e.g., rank, component, combat exposure, postdeployment time at home, cumulative length of deployments), boundary ambiguity, and family‐ and deployment‐related ambivalence as predictors of family functioning during reintegration. Service members (N = 228) from multiple branches of the U.S. military participated in a national survey related to family relationship...
Source: Family Relations - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: William ‐Glenn L. Hollingsworth, Megan L. Dolbin‐MacNab, Lydia I. Marek Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A Comparison of Three Online Recruitment Strategies for Engaging Parents
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Family scientists can face the challenge of effectively and efficiently recruiting normative samples of parents and families. Utilizing the Internet to recruit parents is a strategic way to find participants where they already are, enabling researchers to overcome many of the barriers to in‐person recruitment. The present study was designed to compare three online recruitment strategies for recruiting parents: e‐mail Listservs, Facebook, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Analyses revealed differences in the effectiveness and efficiency of data collection. In particular, MTurk resulted in the most demographic...
Source: Family Relations - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jodi Dworkin, Heather Hessel, Kate Gliske, Jessie H. Rudi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Patterns of Enrollment and Engagement of Custodial Grandmothers in a Randomized Clinical Trial of Psychoeducational Interventions
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Andersen's (2008) behavior model was used to investigate patterns of enrollment and treatment engagement among 343 custodial grandmothers who participated in a randomized clinical trial of three psychosocial interventions:(a) a behavioral parenting program, (b) a cognitive behavioral coping program, or (c) an information‐only condition. Treatment completion was superior to that typically found with birth parents, even though the grandmothers and their target grandchildren both had high levels of mental and physical health challenges. Compliance did not differ significantly by condition but was higher among gran...
Source: Family Relations - May 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gregory C. Smith, Frederick Strieder, Patty Greenberg, Bert Hayslip, Julian Montoro‐Rodriguez Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Historical Oppression and Indigenous Families: Uncovering Potential Risk Factors for Indigenous Families Touched by Violence
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Violence against Indigenous women in the United States is higher than for any other racial group. Indigenous women tend to rely on families for support and recovery, yet the risk factors related to Indigenous families affected by violence are unknown. Therefore, interviews from a critical ethnography were used to uncover the perspectives of Indigenous women who have experienced intimate partner violence, along with the professionals who serve them, to understand potential risk factors that create vulnerability to and impair recovery from violence. Several themes emerged from pragmatic horizon analysis of intervie...
Source: Family Relations - May 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Catherine E. Burnette Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Perceived Spousal Religiosity and Marital Quality Across Racial and Ethnic Groups
In this study, data were drawn from a nationally representative sample of married Americans (N = 1,162). Although perceived spousal religiosity predicted higher marital quality across all racial and ethnic groups, this effect was stronger for Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics than for Whites. Compared to Whites, the 3 racial and ethnic minority groups experienced a larger boost in frequency of expressive forms of love as perceived spousal religiosity increased. This effect was also found regarding marital satisfaction for Asians and Blacks relative to Whites, but not for Hispanics. Moreover, although racial and ethnic min...
Source: Family Relations - May 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Samuel L. Perry Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
