Family Structure, Academic Characteristics, and Postsecondary Education
This study investigates the reasons for the gaps in educational attainment between children from married biological parents and alternative families. Socioeconomic resources and parental behaviors are well‐established reasons, but these factors do not explain the entire relationship between family structure and educational outcomes. We argue that these parental‐level factors influence children's academic socialization and thus indirectly contribute to differential educational outcomes. Hence, this study considers whether children's academic characteristics are a complementary explanation for the effect of family struct...
Source: Family Relations - March 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zheng Wu, Christoph M. Schimmele, Feng Hou Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Interdisciplinary and Innovative Approaches to Strengthening Family and Individual Resilience: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue presents interdisciplinary and innovative perspectives on family and individual resilience. In this introduction, the authors provide an overview of this collection of conceptual and empirical articles that are organized by four categories: families as contexts, families as systems, intervention and policy implications, and methodological considerations. In addition, the authors highlight how resilience was conceptualized and operationalized in these works. This special issue is intended to stimulate the further study of family and individual resilience, especially research that focuses on interdisciplin...
Source: Family Relations - January 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael M. Criss, Carolyn S. Henry, Amanda W. Harrist, Robert E. Larzelere Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Models of Resilience: Developing Psychosocial Interventions for Parents of Children with Chronic Health Conditions
Research regarding family adaption and resilience in children with chronic health conditions has resulted in the development of a number of theoretical models and data‐driven psychosocial interventions in the field of pediatric psychology, some of which may not be well known in the field of family science. These models incorporate family systems theory and multiple resiliency factors within their framework to better describe the complex process of adaptation and subsequent adjustment outcomes. In this article, three contemporary resilience models within pediatric psychology are briefly reviewed and discussed. The develop...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Larry L. Mullins, Elizabeth S. Molzon, Kristina I. Suorsa, Alayna P. Tackett, Ahna L. H. Pai, John M. Chaney Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Resilience as Regulation of Developmental and Family Processes
Resilience can be defined as establishing equilibrium subsequent to disturbances to a system caused by significant adversity. When families experience adversity or transitions, multiple regulatory processes may be involved in establishing equilibrium, including adaptability, regulation of negative affect, and effective problem‐solving skills. The authors' resilience‐as‐regulation perspective integrates insights about the regulation of individual development with processes that regulate family systems. This middle‐range theory of family resilience focuses on regulatory processes across levels that are involved in ad...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David MacPhee, Erika Lunkenheimer, Nathaniel Riggs Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Promoting Family Resilience Through Evidence‐based Policy Making: Reconsidering the Link Between Adult–Infant Bedsharing and Infant Mortality
Evidence‐based policy making often has a direct or indirect goal of promoting family resilience. The authors consider the ways in which scholarly disagreements about evidence can challenge this goal, focusing on the debate regarding whether adult–infant bedsharing increases the risk of infant mortality. A central issue is whether scholars conclude that public policy should recommend against all bedsharing or only bedsharing in particular risky circumstances. The authors use context‐based evidence‐based policy making (Dobrow, Goel & Upshur, 2004) as a framework for a review of studies of sudden infant death synd...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel A. Gordon, Hillary L. Rowe, Karina Garcia Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Methodological Considerations in Studying Individual and Family Resilience
This article considers four methodological issues in the study of family resilience. The first focus is on measurement, in which the psychometric properties of reliability, validity, and measurement equivalence are described. The second methodological consideration is on efforts to establish causality in the absence of experimental manipulation. Here, the authors present longitudinal panel models as a prototypical approach, describing the possibilities and challenges of this and other techniques toward inferences of causality, especially in the context of family resiliency. Third, the authors consider modeling resilience a...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Noel A. Card, Melissa A. Barnett Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Short‐Term Resilience Processes in the Family
This article highlights naturalistic research methods that are well suited to the study of these short‐term resilience processes and points to clinical applications of our conceptual and methodological approach. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sunhye Bai, Rena L. Repetti Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Parenting Stress, Dinnertime Rituals, and Child Well‐being in Working‐Class Families
This study examined the extent to which family dinnertime rituals serve a protective role for families experiencing high levels of stress. Using data from a longitudinal study of working‐class couples, the role of dinnertime rituals as a moderator of mothers' and fathers' parenting stress and child psychosocial outcomes was investigated. Greater dinnertime rituals reported by fathers moderated the effect of parenting stress on internalizing problems for girls, but not for boys. Fathers' reports of dinnertime rituals were related to fewer behavioral symptoms, internalizing problems and externalizing problems, and greater ...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yesel Yoon, Katie Newkirk, Maureen Perry‐Jenkins Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Impact of Economic Pressure on Parent Positivity, Parenting, and Adolescent Positivity into Emerging Adulthood
This study describes how positivity can be incorporated into the family stress model to explain resilience to disrupted family processes in the face of economic distress. Prospective, longitudinal data came from 451 mothers, fathers, and youth participating from their adolescence through early adulthood. Assessments included observational and self‐report measures. Information regarding economic pressure, parental positivity, and parenting were collected during early adolescence, positivity was collected in late adolescence and emerging adulthood. Results indicated that economic pressure was indirectly associated with ado...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tricia K. Neppl, Shinyoung Jeon, Thomas J. Schofield, M.Brent Donnellan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Child, Family, and Community Protective Factors in the Development of Children's Early Conduct Problems
This study utilized a resilience model to investigate child, family, and community protective factors in toddlerhood as they relate to low levels of conduct problems at age 5 in a sample of low‐income children at risk for early disruptive problem behavior. Child, family, and community factors were associated with lower levels of conduct problems at age 5. Child, family, and community protective factors also distinguished between children who remained below versus above a clinical threshold for aggressive problems between age 2 and 5. Finally, each domain of protective factors made small but significant unique contributio...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ella Vanderbilt‐Adriance, Daniel S. Shaw, Lauretta M. Brennan, Thomas J. Dishion, Frances Gardner, Melvin N. Wilson Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Family Functioning, and Resilience in Military Families: A Pattern‐Based Approach
Linkages between adverse childhood experiences and long‐term consequences in servicemen and servicewomen were examined in relation to family‐level resiliency processes predicted to mitigate this link. Using a pattern‐based, multi‐informant approach, resilience was explored through a systemic lens in relation to family‐level processes. Latent family profiles were identified using diverse dimensions of family functioning guided by the circumplex model. Data were collected from parents and their adolescents, age 11 to 18, living in the continental United States (N = 273 military families). Variations in adverse chil...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Assaf Oshri, Mallory Lucier‐Greer, Catherine Walker O'Neal, Amy Laura Arnold, Jay A. Mancini, James L. Ford Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Family Resilience: Moving into the Third Wave
Family resilience has progressed through two waves and is poised for Wave 3. During Waves 1 and 2, family resilience perspectives were conceptualized, researched, and applied as a strengths‐based approach focused on positive family adaptation despite significant risk using an integration of concepts from individual resilience, general systems perspectives on families, and family stress theory. For Wave 3, the authors advocate for increased consistency in terminology and present the family resilience model (FRM) within which existing models interface with family adaptive systems (meaning systems, emotion systems, control ...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carolyn S. Henry, Amanda Sheffield Morris, Amanda W. Harrist Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Child and Family Resilience: A Call for Integrated Science, Practice, and Professional Training
Science and practice focused on child resilience and family resilience have deep and intertwined roots, yet there have been surprisingly few efforts to systematically integrate the theory, findings, and implications of these two traditions of work. In this article, the authors discuss parallels in concepts and processes that link the sciences of child and family resilience and the potential of relational developmental systems theory to provide an integrative framework for understanding and promoting resilience in children and families. The authors describe components of an integrated approach to child and family resilience...
Source: Family Relations - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann S. Masten, Amy R. Monn Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Family Coaching: An Emerging Family Science Field
Although there is a rich history of collaboration and distinction among family practitioners, to remain progressive, the domains of family practice must continue to evolve based on the current practices of family professionals. Recently, family coaching (FC) has captured the professional attention of practitioners as another collaborative yet distinct field in family science. FC seeks to foster the achievement of family‐identified goals through a process‐driven relationship between a family and professional coach. In this article, the authors introduce FC and explore it as an extension to the domains of family practi...
Source: Family Relations - November 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kimberly Allen, Nichole L. Huff Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Characteristics of Individuals Associated with Involvement in Different Types of Marriage Preparation Interventions
Recent research has shed light broadly on the individual, couple, and contextual characteristics of audiences that are predictive of their involvement in marriage preparation. This research investigates the individual personality characteristics and emotional readiness factors associated with the selection of specific types of marriage preparation interventions. Operating from an ecosystemic‐developmental perspective and the Five‐Factor model of personality, this study assessed eight individual personality and emotional health characteristics (anxiety, depression, extroversion, flexibility, kindness, maturity, organiza...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen F. Duncan, Jeffry H. Larson, Shelece McAllister Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
