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{"title":"Contextual Influences on Parenting and Adversity: An Examination of Multisystemic Effects.","authors":"Sierra N Walters, Jacqueline B Duong, Kayla E Carta, Grace A Jumonville, Alyssa S Carrasco, Daniela N Romero, Matthew W Ahle, Theodora Chaspari, Shrikanth S Narayanan, Jonathan S Comer, Adela C Timmons","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03345-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-026-03345-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability of a child to demonstrate resilience is a complex outcome influenced by multiple interconnected social systems. One system important to child resiliency is the family system, specifically parenting and the parent-child relationship. However, less is known about how macrosocial systems may affect the family system and, in turn, resiliency at the individual level. This study explored the effect of warm/responsive parenting and involvement on the association between adversity exposure and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Additionally, we examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and acculturation on the interaction between parenting, adversity, and child mental health to examine how contextual systems may influence the family-level system. Our sample was comprised of 308 mother-child dyads from racially, ethnically, and economically diverse backgrounds (47.1% had an income falling at or below the 33rd percentile for their county, 79.9% of mothers self-identified as belonging to either a racial or ethnic minoritized group) and included children aged 6-9 (<i>M</i> = 7.74 years, 49.4% male). Results showed that child adversity was associated with increased internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Warm/responsive parenting moderated the link between adversity and externalizing symptoms. When including SES and acculturation as moderators, the associations between adversity, parenting, and child mental health varied in complex ways. Findings highlight the importance of examining factors that promote resiliency across multiple systems and their implications for building interventions with greater relevance, accessibility, and effectiveness for families from diverse backgrounds.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10826-026-03345-7.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 8","pages":"1787-1801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13469487/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148762386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of Maternal and Paternal Adverse Childhood Experiences on Parenting Satisfaction and Parenting Stress.","authors":"Linghua Jiang, Sara Vasilenko, Xiafei Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03351-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-026-03351-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research has suggested that mothers who experienced a higher number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be more likely to have higher levels of parenting stress (Lange et al., 2019; Steele et al.,2016). However, few studies have examined fathers' roles in the association. Also, it remains unclear how different combinations of maternal and paternal ACEs may affect parenting satisfaction and parenting stress. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; N = 2,578, 60.4% female), this study identified a five-class model for maternal ACEs: (1) Low ACEs (58.32%), Parental Substance Use and Divorce (20.22%), (3) Violence (10.52%), (4) Abuse (7.65%), and (5) Multiple ACEs (3.29%). For paternal ACEs, five-class models were identified: (1) Low ACEs (48.51%), (2) Parental Substance Use and Divorce (21%), (3) Violence Victimization (12.99%), (4) Household and Environmental Dysfunction (10.68%), and (5) Physical and Emotional Abuse (6.82%). LCA results revealed that parenting satisfaction differed across ACEs classes for both mothers and fathers, even though some ACEs classes might not differ from the Low ACEs class in the post-hoc tests. ACEs class memberships were not significantly associated with parenting stress at the omnibus level, although a pairwise comparison indicated higher stress in the Multiple ACEs class relative to the Low ACEs class. These findings suggest that prevention and intervention programs should target specific groups of parents exposed to different combinations of ACEs and address various aspects of parenting.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 9","pages":"2149-2162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13593720/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Square Pegs in Round Holes: How Strict Policies and Standardization of Mental Health Treatment Practices Complicate Youth Care Seeking.","authors":"David A A Miller, Scott T Ronis","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03273-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-026-03273-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public mental health practices related to treatment assignment and delivery are increasingly becoming standardized, yet little is known about which standardized practices affect youth treatment seeking. Although standardization introduces consistency in procedures, diagnoses, and treatment, and is considered beneficial to institutions and individuals for a variety of reasons (e.g., reliability of administration, predictability of outcomes), it often reduces individuals to diagnostic or symptom-specific classifiers and disproportionately affects care seeking among youth due to their marginalized position in care delivery. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 34 youth, ages 10 to 21 years, as part of the Atlantic Canada Children's Effective Service Strategies Mental Health (ACCESS-MH) project to assess the impact of standardized care practices on youth mental health care seeking. Based on analyses using Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Commonplace (P-SEC) methodology, findings highlight the struggle of marginalised individuals (i.e., youth in need of mental health services) when trying to navigate mental health systems. Findings indicate that standardization of care can act as a barrier for youth due to shortcomings in the appropriateness and timeliness of interventions, and that treatment monitoring and the use of modalities less reliant on categorical diagnosis could help to address the negative impact. Recommendations related to policy change [e.g., treatment monitoring, the use of modalities less reliant on categorical diagnosis] are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":"812-827"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13061788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dyadic Context of Preadolescent Girls' Depressive Symptoms: Elucidating The Role of Biobehavioral Synchrony.","authors":"Jennifer A Somers, Elena Cannova, Gabrielle R Rinne, Chengzhen Angelina Meng, Kyra Fisher, Yussof Khalilian, Gabrielle MacNaughton, Tiffany C Ho, Steve S Lee","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03300-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-026-03300-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biobehavioral synchrony represents a dynamic interpersonal mechanism that influences parent and child depression risk via parent-child interactions, which may operate directly or in concert with depression-related impairments in parenting. We hypothesized that parent depressive symptoms and unsupportive emotion-related socialization behavior (ERSB) would negatively predict positive affect and physiological synchrony, and that these parent factors would moderate the effects of dyadic synchrony on daughters' depressive symptoms. Eighty parent (87.5% female)-daughter (<i>M</i> _{child age} = 8.26 years, <i>SD</i> _{child age} = 1.51 years; 38.0% White) dyads participated in a 5-minute conflict discussion task, during which second-by-second estimates of parent unsupportive ERSB and parent and daughter affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were obtained. Parent self-reported depressive symptoms and rated child behavior problems. Contrary to hypotheses, path models suggested that neither parent depressive symptoms nor unsupportive ERSB was associated with dyadic synchrony of positive affect or RSA. However, as expected, parent depressive symptoms and unsupportive ERSB moderated predictions of daughters' depression symptoms from dyadic synchrony. The nature of these interactive effects depended on the synchrony modality (i.e., positive affect, RSA) and parent factor under investigation. RSA synchrony during parent-daughter conflict discussion buffered against the adverse effects of parent depressive symptoms on daughters. Importantly, these patterns were specific to daughters' depressive symptoms rather than general dimensions of child psychopathology. These results underscore the centrality of multimodal, dynamic processes through which parent-daughter interactions may shape depression risk in daughters.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10826-026-03300-6.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 5","pages":"1178-1195"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13156177/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147869952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predictors of Racial Socialization among Black Families: Neighborhood Factors, Racial Discrimination, and Depressive Symptoms.","authors":"Latisha M Swygert, Justin A Lavner, Steven R H Beach","doi":"10.1007/s10826-026-03284-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-026-03284-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Racial socialization is a common parenting strategy among Black American caregivers in which they transmit messages about Black American heritage, preparation for discrimination, self- esteem, and connectedness with other racial-ethnic groups. Racial socialization messages foster the development of an understanding of race in Black youth. Racial socialization has been linked to positive outcomes among Black youth, including higher self-esteem and improved mental health outcomes. However, less is known about factors that predict Black caregivers' use of different racial socialization strategies. To better understand variability in racial socialization messages among Black families, this study examined neighborhood disorder and social cohesion, parents' and their children's experiences of racial discrimination, and parents' depressive symptoms as predictors of caregivers' transmission of messages of cultural socialization, racial barriers, and preparation for bias using data from a sample of Black families living in the rural Southern U.S. Results revealed several direct and indirect effects and suggest that it is important to further consider linkages between parents' experience of contextual stressors, their mental health, and their racial socialization practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"35 5","pages":"1153-1164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13156097/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147870025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constellations of Family Qualities and Links with Psychological and Behavioral Health in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.","authors":"Anna K Hochgraf, Mikayla R Barry, Stephanie T Lanza, Marlena Jacobsen, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03154-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03154-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Positive family qualities, including low parent pressure to control weight, high physical activity support, frequent family meals, family connectedness, healthy family functioning, and parental monitoring, may promote youth psychological and behavioral health. We aimed to identify naturally occurring patterns of family qualities during adolescence and examine links with body satisfaction, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, disordered eating, and substance use during adolescence and young adulthood. Our goal was to inform family-centered interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes impacting youth. Data were from a longitudinal study of 1,568 youth (53% female; 20% Asian, 29% Black, 17% Latinx, 19% White), that spanned adolescence (<i>M</i> age = 14.4 years) to young adulthood (<i>M</i> age = 22.2 years). Results from latent class analysis indicated that 8% of families were thriving, with low probability of parent pressure to control weight and high probabilities of physical activity support, frequent family meals, family connectedness, healthy family functioning, and parental monitoring. Other classes were distinguished by weight-specific risk (23% of families), broad risk (34% of families), disengagement (18% of families), and high risk (16% of families). Youth in thriving families reported better psychological and behavioral health than their peers concurrently in adolescence and longitudinally in young adulthood; yet this pattern of family qualities was rare. Family-centered interventions that target parent pressure to control weight, physical activity support, family meals, family connectedness, family functioning, and parental monitoring may help prevent multiple psychological and behavioral health problems. Heterogeneity in family qualities suggests that family-centered interventions could be tailored based on family strengths.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12470379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145186951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Qualitative Study of the Saving and Banking Experiences of Adolescent Girls and Their Caregivers in Ghana.","authors":"Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Alice Boateng, Abdallah Ibrahim, Portia Nartey, Kingsley Kumbelim, Meti Abdella, Proscovia Nabunya, Fred M Ssewamala, Mary M McKay","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03125-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03125-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Financial inclusion is critical to poverty reduction, but significant challenges remain. The impact of family economic empowerment interventions has not been tested among adolescent girls at risk of dropping out of school. Additionally, studies exploring adolescent girls' (and their caregivers') experiences with saving and depositing are limited. Hence, we qualitatively explored the saving and banking experiences of Ghanaian adolescent girls and their caregivers (<i>n</i> = 20 dyads) who participated in a combination intervention that included an economic empowerment component. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. Results showed that most families did not have bank accounts due to lack of knowledge, limited literacy, and the belief that banks were for \"rich\" people. Forgetting necessary documents was a barrier and program support was a facilitator to account opening during the intervention. Stable income, matched savings, future planning, and small savings were facilitators whereas income fluctuation was a barrier to saving. Fund availability, filling deposit forms, and long lines were identified as challenges and support from bank personnel, relatives, and the program facilitated the depositing process. Our results identify the facilitators and barriers to saving and using bank services; and have programmatic and policy implications in Ghana.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12434932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145076361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Characterizing delinquent behavior in early adolescence: Results from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development- Social Development study.","authors":"Sarah J Brislin, Maia Choi, Brian M Hicks","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03148-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-025-03148-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined associations among early delinquent behaviors and key personality traits, psychopathology, and environmental factors among youth enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development - Social Development (ABCD-SD) study, a substudy of the national ABCD study. Establishing these associations at baseline is an important step for identifying early risk factors for delinquent behavior. The ABCD-SD study includes annual assessments of delinquency, victimization, and personality features for participants from five sites (<i>N</i> = 2,426). We used all data from the ABCD-SD baseline assessment (<i>M</i> age = 11.7 years, 48% female). Self-reported race was 53% White, 31% Black, 12% multiracial, with 11% self-identified as Hispanic. Thirty-six percent reported their annual household income was under $50,000. Linear regression models were used to examine the association between delinquency and a variety of personality, psychopathology, and environmental risk factors. We also tested associations between each risk factor and Delinquency scores were moderated by sex, race (Black compared to White youth), ethnicity, or household income. We found that delinquency was associated with low empathy and fear, impulsivity, aggression, and other externalizing problems. Delinquency was also associated with antisocial peer affiliation and lack of positive parenting practices and low neighborhood cohesion and school engagement. Nearly all the interactions between key risk factors and sex, race, ethnicity, and household income failed to reach statistical significance. These results provide a comprehensive characterization of associations between delinquency in emerging adolescence and key outcomes across multiple domains in a large, geographically diverse sample.</p>","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"34 8","pages":"2081-2099"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13431260/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148670959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parents’ Perspectives Regarding Support for Raising a Child on the Autism Spectrum in Switzerland: A Mixed-Methods Study","authors":"Isabella Mutschler, Mathias Durrer, Jasmine Deraita, Andrea H. Meyer","doi":"10.1007/s10826-025-03108-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-025-03108-w","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) play a pivotal role in securing adequate services and supports. This study examined, from a Swiss parental perspective, (a) the support needs of families raising a child with ASD, (b) the broader impact of ASD on family functioning, and (c) parents’ psychological resources. A convergent parallel mixed methods cross-sectional design was used, in which qualitative and quantitative data were collected simultaneously, analyzed independently, and then integrated during interpretation. A total of 88 parents participated in the qualitative part of the study, and within that sample, 60 also completed the quantitative part. Thematic analysis of interview data yielded seven major themes: (1) services for children with ASD, (2) social support, (3) help and services for parents, (4) ASD diagnosis and its impact on the family, (5) sibling relationships, (6) schooling, and (7) societal attitudes. Parents consistently expressed the need for more specialized ASD providers, enhanced recreational opportunities for their children, counseling and parent-training programs, and implementation of a case-management system to coordinate care. Quantitative analyses indicated that higher parental resilience was significantly associated with greater parenting self-efficacy, lower parenting stress, and fewer symptoms of depression and psychological distress. Integration of qualitative and quantitative results revealed that, despite higher resilience and better psychological functioning, parents faced substantial unmet needs when navigating support systems. These findings underscore the necessity of targeted, family-centered interventions—such as early screening and diagnosis, evidence-based treatment and parent training, and case management—to enhance support for families of children with ASD. Practical implications of these findings for supporting families of children on the autism spectrum are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"34 7","pages":"1952-1971"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10826-025-03108-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147887437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pandemic-related stress and access to caregivers and healthcare among parents-to-be.","authors":"Olivia Veira, Shreya Bhise, Nicolette Stelter, Kathryn Van Eck, Sara B Johnson, Tim Nelson, Alain B Labrique, Sara Skelton, Dustin G Gibson, Arik V Marcell","doi":"10.1007/s10826-024-02966-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10826-024-02966-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child and Family Studies","volume":"34 6","pages":"1516-1526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12320943/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}