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Mental health, minority stress, and the Australian Marriage Law postal survey: A longitudinal study. 心理健康、少数民族压力和澳大利亚婚姻法邮政调查:一项纵向研究。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-04-27 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000455

Liam J Casey, Bethany M Wootton, John McAloon

{"title":"Mental health, minority stress, and the Australian Marriage Law postal survey: A longitudinal study.","authors":"Liam J Casey, Bethany M Wootton, John McAloon","doi":"10.1037/ort0000455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000455","url":null,"abstract":"Research indicates that marriage equality legislation is associated with improved mental health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. However, the public debate that often precedes such legislation may exacerbate psychological distress and minority stress. In 2017, the Australian Federal Government conducted a national survey to gauge support for marriage equality. The present study investigated the mental health of a sample of LGBTQ people during and after this survey period. A sample of 2,220 LGBTQ participants completed measures of psychological distress and minority stress during the survey period. Participants were invited for follow-up 1 week, 3 months, and 12 months after the postal survey results were announced. Data were analyzed using linear mixed models to evaluate change in psychological distress and minority stress across time points, and the influence of exposure to the marriage equality debate, sexual identity, and gender identity on psychological distress and minority stress. Reported symptoms of psychological distress and minority stress significantly decreased following the postal survey period. Greater exposure to the marriage equality campaign was associated with greater psychological distress and perceived stigma but not internalized stigma. Sexual and gender identity subgroups significantly differed on outcome variable means. This study documents the longitudinal effects on a minority group of a public vote and the enactment of legislation regarding their human rights. The results suggest the postal survey served as a significant stressor to Australia's LGBTQ community. Implications for policy and clinical practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"546-556"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37875925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 14

How far can stigma-based empathy reach? Effects of societal (in)equity of LGB people on their allyship with transgender and Black people. 基于耻辱感的同理心能走多远?LGB群体的社会(不)平等对他们与跨性别者和黑人结盟的影响。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000510

Eddie S K Chong, Jonathan J Mohr

{"title":"How far can stigma-based empathy reach? Effects of societal (in)equity of LGB people on their allyship with transgender and Black people.","authors":"Eddie S K Chong, Jonathan J Mohr","doi":"10.1037/ort0000510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000510","url":null,"abstract":"The shared experience of societal discrimination and affirmation can provide a basis for empathy among members of different marginalized groups. However, the potential mechanisms and moderating conditions involved in this process have been little studied. This experiment examined how perceived societal (in)equity of one's own group may influence one's reaction to other marginalized groups. We randomly assigned 310 cisgender White lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults to conditions varying in LGB (in)equity salience (discrimination, affirmation, control) and in the target outgroup identity (transgender, Black). Participants completed a survey assessing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to the outgroup, that is, indicators of allyship. Based on the emerging theory of stigma-based solidarity, we expected LGB discrimination to improve intergroup relations with transgender people (i.e. a group readily sharing a common superordinate identity with LGB people) but worsen relations with Black people (i.e. a group not readily sharing a common superordinate identity). Counter to expectations, allyship variables were not predicted by discrimination as a main effect or in interaction with outgroup identity. However, we found support for the mediating role of emotions in explaining the indirect effect of discrimination on allyship. For example, discrimination produced greater outgroup identification by elevating negative affect, but only when the outgroup was transgender people. Results for transgender and Black targets converged for outcomes requiring participants to consider societal injustice toward the outgroup. We observed only one effect for affirmation: It reduced LGB people's empathic anger for both transgender and Black people. Results may inform efforts of coalition building. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"760-771"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38280858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Parental trajectories of PTSD and child adjustment: Findings from the Building a New Life in Australia study. 创伤后应激障碍的父母轨迹和儿童适应:来自澳大利亚建立新生活研究的发现。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2019-12-12 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000434

Kyla Reid, David Berle

{"title":"Parental trajectories of PTSD and child adjustment: Findings from the Building a New Life in Australia study.","authors":"Kyla Reid, David Berle","doi":"10.1037/ort0000434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000434","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence suggests that the psychosocial adjustment of children of refugees may be compromised when a parent has symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We sought to determine whether trajectories of parental PTSD symptoms might relate to child adjustment and whether there is an additive effect when both parents, as opposed to just one, has prominent PTSD symptoms. We report data from the first three years of a prospective study of recent Australian humanitarian migrants: the Building a New Life in Australia study. Parental PTSD symptoms were assessed on three occasions, and latent class growth analysis was used to identify homogenous groups of parents based on their PTSD symptoms. The Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire was administered to assess child psychosocial adjustment. Regression analyses were then conducted to determine whether trajectories of parental PTSD symptoms predicted child adjustment. After controlling for child age and gender, the presence of either one or both parents with persistently high PTSD symptoms was associated with children's having greater emotional difficulties and poorer overall psychosocial adjustment. Children with both parents with persistently high PTSD had higher levels of emotional difficulties than did children with a single parent with high PTSD symptoms. For emotional difficulties, though not other domains of child psychosocial adjustment, there indeed appears to be an additive impact of having two parents, rather than just one, with persistently high PTSD symptoms, although the magnitude of these effects was small. The clinical and service provision implications of these findings are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"288-295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37450878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

Examining social-ecological correlates of youth gang entry among serious juvenile offenders: A survival analysis. 检视严重少年犯进入帮派的社会生态关联:生存分析。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-06-22 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000491

Gabriel J Merrin, Jordan P Davis, Katherine M Ingram, Dorothy L Espelage

{"title":"Examining social-ecological correlates of youth gang entry among serious juvenile offenders: A survival analysis.","authors":"Gabriel J Merrin, Jordan P Davis, Katherine M Ingram, Dorothy L Espelage","doi":"10.1037/ort0000491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000491","url":null,"abstract":"Decades of research have categorized risk and protective factors for youth gang involvement in social contexts that include individual, family, peer, school, and community factors. However, most studies are cross-sectional and only examine 1 or 2 social-ecological contexts. This study, which used a time-to-event model with time-variant and time-invariant predictors, adds to this literature by using longitudinal social-ecological factors to examine increases in the hazard of gang entry among serious juvenile offenders followed for 7 years during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. Lower socioeconomic status (SES), higher rates of exposure to violence, self-reported offending, and time spent in jail were associated with higher hazards rates of gang entry. Temperance (suppression of aggression and impulse control) was associated with decreases in the hazard of gang entry. Among family characteristics, higher parental hostility and having a father who had been arrested were associated with increases in the hazard of gang entry. Resistance to peer influence was a protective factor for gang entry. In addition, individuals who reported associating with delinquent peers or who had a higher proportion of friends who had been arrested had significant increases in the hazard for gang entry. School orientation was a significant protective factor, and neighborhood disorganization was associated with increases in the hazard for gang entry. Strategies for early intervention and prevention efforts are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"623-632"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38071387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Racial/ethnic discrimination: Dimensions and relation to mental health symptoms in a marginalized urban American population. 种族/民族歧视:美国城市边缘人群心理健康症状的维度及其关系

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-06-25 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000481

Dorothy Chin, Tamra B Loeb, Muyu Zhang, Honghu Liu, Michele Cooley-Strickland, Gail E Wyatt

{"title":"Racial/ethnic discrimination: Dimensions and relation to mental health symptoms in a marginalized urban American population.","authors":"Dorothy Chin, Tamra B Loeb, Muyu Zhang, Honghu Liu, Michele Cooley-Strickland, Gail E Wyatt","doi":"10.1037/ort0000481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000481","url":null,"abstract":"That racial/ethnic discrimination has adverse physical and psychological consequences, including stress, anxiety, depression, and their attendant health effects, is well documented. However, the particular dimensions within the broad construct of discrimination and their role in mental health are less well understood. This study investigates the dimensions of discrimination and explores their relation to depression and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms. Using the Brief Perceived Ethnic/Racial Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version, discrimination experiences were assessed among a community sample of African American and Latinx participants (N = 500). Factor analyses revealed 4 dimensions: Social Rejection, Stereotyping, Direct Threats/Attacks, and Police Mistreatment. In multivariate analyses, full regression models were significantly related to PTS and depression symptoms. Among the individual predictors, Social Rejection and ethnicity (Latinx) uniquely contributed to PTS symptoms in men, whereas Stereotyping and Direct Threat/Attack were associated with PTS symptoms for women. In regards to depressive symptoms, income, ethnicity (Latinx), and Social Rejection were significant predictors for men, while Social Rejection had an independent contribution for women. Thus, social rejection emerged as a significant unique predictor in 3 of the four models, suggesting that social ostracism may be a particularly harmful aspect of discrimination. Implications of these findings include the use of proactive and intervention strategies that emphasize a sense of belonging and mitigate the effects of exclusion and rejection. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"614-622"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8086842/pdf/nihms-1690723.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38089251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 16

Self and sibling care attitudes, personal loss, and stress-related growth among siblings of adults with mental illness. 患有精神疾病的成人兄弟姐妹的自我和兄弟姐妹关怀态度、个人丧失和压力相关的成长。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-09-10 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000511

Catherine H Stein, Sabrina M Gonzales, Kevin Walker, Matthew F Benoit, Sarah E Russin

{"title":"Self and sibling care attitudes, personal loss, and stress-related growth among siblings of adults with mental illness.","authors":"Catherine H Stein, Sabrina M Gonzales, Kevin Walker, Matthew F Benoit, Sarah E Russin","doi":"10.1037/ort0000511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000511","url":null,"abstract":"Although sibling ties are typically among the longest lasting family relationships, relatively little is known about how adult siblings navigate family caregiving when a brother or sister has a serious mental illness. The present study examined the role of primary caregiver status, perceived sibling illness severity, sibling relationship quality, and self and sibling caregiving attitudes in understanding reports of personal loss and stress-related personal growth among siblings of adults with serious mental illness. Online surveys were completed by 226 adult siblings (141 women; 85 men; mean age = 34 years; SD = 9.05). Results suggest that well siblings' reports of self and sibling caregiving attitudes significantly differed as a function of primary caregiver status (i.e., sibling, parents, or others as primary caregiver or no caregiver). Sibling caregiving attitudes differentially predicted well siblings' experience of personal loss and stress-related growth, regardless of demographics and primary caregiver status, perceived sibling illness severity, and sibling relationship quality. Greater ambivalence about providing care to their sibling with mental illness was associated with adults' reports of greater personal loss while higher levels of sibling balanced care priorities were significantly related to higher levels of personal growth. Greater self-care attitudes were significantly related to lower levels of both personal loss and personal growth for well siblings. Understanding sibling caregiving attitudes has important implications for research and interventions with families coping with mental illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"799-809"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38368469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Mental health professionals with mental illnesses: A qualitative interview study. 患有精神疾病的精神卫生专业人员:一项定性访谈研究。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-06-22 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000499

Marta Elliott, James M Ragsdale

{"title":"Mental health professionals with mental illnesses: A qualitative interview study.","authors":"Marta Elliott, James M Ragsdale","doi":"10.1037/ort0000499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000499","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of mental health professionals who self-identify as having a mental illness by analyzing how they describe their experiences in their own words. Twelve therapists volunteered to be interviewed for a larger study of working professionals living with mental illness that focused on perceived prejudice and discrimination in the workplace, revealing versus concealing one's mental illness on the job, and how having a mental illness impacts one's identity as a professional. This article reports on how these themes relate to practicing psychotherapists who are typically careful about with whom they share their mental health information. The results highlight that expressions of prejudice toward people with mental illnesses were commonplace among these mental health professionals and may contribute to an inclination among therapists to reveal their mental health history selectively, if at all, on the job. When it comes to sharing with clients, therapists tended to be thoughtful and deliberate about self-disclosure, only using it when they believed it would be beneficial to the client rather than to themselves. Regardless of whether they shared with clients, most of the therapists emphasized that having direct experience with mental illness enhanced their capacity to empathize with their clients, although sometimes empathy could trigger their own symptoms. The implications of these results for psychotherapists are discussed, including how psychotherapists with mental illness should care for themselves and how psychotherapists without mental illness can be more sensitive to their colleagues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"677-686"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38071391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Adjustment of children using supervised access services: Longitudinal outcomes, multiple perspectives, and correlates. 使用监督获取服务的儿童的调整:纵向结果、多视角和相关性。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-06-25 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000446

Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques, Hans Ivers, Sylvie Drapeau, Annick St-Amand, Marie-Christine Fortin

{"title":"Adjustment of children using supervised access services: Longitudinal outcomes, multiple perspectives, and correlates.","authors":"Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques, Hans Ivers, Sylvie Drapeau, Annick St-Amand, Marie-Christine Fortin","doi":"10.1037/ort0000446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000446","url":null,"abstract":"Supervised access services (SAS) allow parents who represent a risk for their children or for the other parent to maintain contact with or exchange custody of their children in the presence of a third person. Even though these services have been designed in the children's best interest, few studies have, until now, documented the evolution in the parents' and children's adjustment or in the quality of the relationships between the family members throughout the services. To better understand this evolution, a longitudinal study comprising 3 time measures was conducted with 96 parents who were beginning the services. Although the results revealed that the children's evolution was stable all throughout the service trajectory, further analyses showed that the school-age children, and more particularly the boys, experienced a high level of difficulty. Furthermore, the study showed that the parents' evaluation of their children's adjustment differed according to whether or not the parent had to see the child in a supervised context. Finally, we observed that the evolution of the children's adjustment was correlated with the parents' psychological distress, the quality of the parent-child relationship, and conflict between the parents, all processes that did not have a tendency to improve throughout the service trajectory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"600-613"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38089253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Educational trajectories of children in care across the early education and primary school years: A national cohort study in England. 幼儿在早期教育和小学阶段的教育轨迹:英国的一项全国性队列研究。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-07-16 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000505

Eran P Melkman

{"title":"Educational trajectories of children in care across the early education and primary school years: A national cohort study in England.","authors":"Eran P Melkman","doi":"10.1037/ort0000505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000505","url":null,"abstract":"The goals of this article were to (a) examine the changes in educational achievements of children in care from preschool through the end of primary school; (b) identify subgroups exhibiting distinct educational trajectories; and (c) explore key predictive individual, care, and school characteristics. To this end, the study investigated a cohort of 1,834 children in England who had been in care in their final year of preschool. Data from the National Pupil Database and from the Children Looked After Database was used to examine national assessments of literacy and numeracy in preschool and School Years 2 and 6, as well as potential child (e.g., special educational needs), care (e.g., placement changes) and school predictors (e.g., school's mean ability level). The findings indicated that as early as preschool, children in care lagged substantially behind their peers and their relative academic condition worsened over time. Latent growth analyses revealed four distinct subgroups of children. One was a relatively resilient subgroup of children with \"stable high\" achievements over time, but more than 8 out of 10 children belonged to one of the other subgroups and exhibited maladaptive educational trajectories. Risk factors for a poorer trajectory included having special educational needs and spending more time in care during primary school, whereas attending higher performing schools was found to be related to better performing trajectories. The findings underscore the crucial need for early assessment and intervention efforts to deal with the unique educational needs of children in care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"720-732"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38158792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Distress and apprehension among new parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: The contribution of personal resources. COVID-19大流行期间新父母的痛苦和担忧:个人资源的贡献。

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The American journal of orthopsychiatry Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1037/ort0000497

Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari, Ofir Ben-Yaakov

{"title":"Distress and apprehension among new parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: The contribution of personal resources.","authors":"Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari, Ofir Ben-Yaakov","doi":"10.1037/ort0000497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000497","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined parental distress and apprehension about raising an infant during the COVID-19 pandemic among new Israeli parents, investigating the role of personal resources (low attachment avoidance and anxiety, high self-mastery) and various COVID-19-related anxieties and comparing mothers and fathers. A convenience sample of 606 Israeli parents (469 mothers and 137 fathers) whose first child was 3-12 months old was recruited through social media. No significant differences emerged between mothers and fathers in level of parental distress or apprehension. Poorer health, higher attachment avoidance and anxiety, lower self-mastery, and a higher level of COVID-19-related anxiety over going for infant health checkups contributed significantly to greater parental distress. Lower level of education, being a woman, higher attachment avoidance and anxiety, and higher levels of all COVID-19-related anxieties contributed significantly to greater pandemic-related apprehension. The findings show that new parents may experience parental distress and concerns about raising a child during the crisis, and that whereas specific COVID-19-anxieties are unrelated to global parental distress, they are linked to the apprehension aroused by the pandemic. Moreover, they highlight the contribution of parents' personal resources, showing that lower attachment avoidance and anxiety are associated with lower distress and apprehension, whereas self-mastery is especially significant for lessening the apprehension about raising an infant in this period. These insights may be used in targeted interventions to reduce distress in vulnerable populations, such as individuals who recently became parents for the first time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":409666,"journal":{"name":"The American journal of orthopsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"810-816"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38384155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 18