Journal of Family Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Exploring gender beyond labels: Uncovering diverse gender groups with latent profile analysis.","authors":"Katharine K Chang, Sloan Okrey-Anderson, Lisa R Starr, Ronald D Rogge","doi":"10.1037/fam0001545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender is a variable of great interest to couples and family researchers who frequently use gender labels in individual, dyadic, and systems-level analyses. Labels are unsatisfactory representations of gender as a whole, as they may obfuscate nuanced gender experiences that impact health disparities for both transgender and cisgender respondents. However, there is a lack of consensus on how to model the multidimensionality of gender in quantitative analysis. The present study seeks to assess whether latent profile analysis can identify subgroups that could be used to observe patterns in disparities that would be unobserved by single-item gender measures. A sample of 2,404 U.S.-based respondents (79% White, 40% heterosexual, 20% gender minority) completed online surveys assessing the following indices: (a) sex assigned at birth, (b) degree of identification with binary labels (i.e., male and female), (c) expression/roles, and (d) fluidity. A parsimonious seven-group solution revealed four groups representing gender experiences aligned within a binary framework (strongly aligned masculine/feminine, moderately aligned masculine/feminine) and three groups representing experiences outside of the binary (aligned nonbinary feminine, aligned nonbinary/agender, aligned gender fluid). Cisgender and transgender participants appeared in each of the extracted gender classes, highlighting the limitations of gender labels for people across the gender spectrum. Health disparities also emerged across the gender groups, revealing unique challenges with regard to seeking counselling, microaggression exposure, internalized shame, depressive symptoms, and total lifetime suicide attempts. The results of this study provide a preliminary framework for integrating multiple dimensions into more inclusive subgroups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149220972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family interactions in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P).","authors":"Mary P O'Brien, Danielle M Denenny, Andrea M Auther, Jamie L Zinberg, Tyrone D Cannon, Jean M Addington, Carrie E Bearden, David J Miklowitz","doi":"10.1037/fam0001546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined family interactions in 162 youths at clinical high risk for psychosis and their mothers and fathers, using both observational data (a family problem-solving task) and self-report measures. We evaluated the association between family communication and youths' symptoms of psychosis, depression, and anxiety. Youths, mothers, and fathers rated family communication as one of the top three sources of family tension. During a 10-min problem-solving discussion, parents communicated significantly more constructively than clinical high risk for psychosis youths. Constructive communication was moderately correlated across parents and youth, suggesting reciprocity. There was moderate convergence between observed and self-reported communication. Mothers' constructive communication was positively associated with youths' unusual thoughts, perceptual abnormalities, and blunted affect and negatively associated with youths' depression. Youth with more internalizing symptoms perceived family communication more negatively. In line with attribution theory, mothers may respond more supportively to symptoms they see as uncontrollable and more critically to symptoms viewed as controllable. The sensitivities to social stimulation observed in many clinical high risk for psychosis youths, particularly those with negative symptoms and depression or anxiety, may contribute to feeling overwhelmed and aggravated by family interactions. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disentangling the effect of maternal mental health on children's academic achievement: A random intercept approach.","authors":"Frode Stenseng, Nina F Mikalsen, Mona Risnes, Silje S Skaug, Jay Belsky, Lars Wichstrøm, Vera Skalicka","doi":"10.1037/fam0001525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A wealth of transactional mother-child effects has been proposed in developmental research, including the potential influence of maternal mental health on children's academic development and vice versa. However, longitudinal multi-informant studies spanning several years remain scarce. In the present study, two birth cohorts were followed from ages 8 to 14 (<i>N</i> = 747, 49.4% girls) to examine whether maternal anxiety and depression differentially predicted children's academic achievement and vice versa. A cross-lagged random-intercept model was applied to biennially collected data, controlling for stable, unmeasured, time-invariant factors (e.g., shared genetics, parental education) as well as time-varying covariates (e.g., negative life events). Results showed that higher levels of self-reported maternal anxiety and depression consistently predicted-at comparable magnitudes-lower teacher-reported academic achievement across all time points. These effects persisted after adjusting for prior levels of children's emotional problems, school performance, and exposure to negative life events. Moreover, lower academic achievement predicted increased maternal depressive symptoms between ages 10 and 12. The findings underscore the long-term impact of maternal mental health difficulties on children's functioning beyond the immediate family context, likely representing one of several mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of social marginalization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The strain behind the smile: Temporal dynamics between parental burnout and emotional labor.","authors":"Ziwen Teuber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Theresa Dicke, Samuel Greiff, Elouise Botes","doi":"10.1037/fam0001550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001550","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parents routinely engage in emotional labor to meet caregiving demands by faking emotions (surface acting) or by genuinely cultivating expected ones (deep acting). The association between emotional labor and parental burnout is an emerging question, yet predominantly cross-sectional evidence leaves directionality and temporal dynamics unclear. We therefore conducted two studies spanning different parent samples and timescales. Study 1 applied models from the cross-lagged panel family to a four-wave design with 4-month intervals among 1,373 U.S. parents of young adolescents. From an individual-differences perspective, surface acting and burnout were positively and reciprocally related, whereas the two emotional labor strategies were negatively so. From a within-person perspective, the only effect to emerge was that deep acting predicted lower subsequent surface acting. Study 2 applied dynamic structural equation modeling to a 35-day experience sampling design with 293 U.K. parents of younger children. Within parents, surface acting and burnout were positively and reciprocally related, burnout predicted more deep acting, and deep acting predicted less surface acting. Across parents, average levels during the experience sampling phase mediated baseline-to-follow-up associations for all constructs. We drew three conclusions. First, surface acting and parental burnout reinforce one another, whereas the effects of deep acting appear context-dependent. Second, timescale matters: Intensive longitudinal methods captured within-person processes that longer lagged panel designs missed. Third, patterns differed between our samples of parents of younger and older children, tentatively suggesting a developmental-stage influence; this finding needs confirmation before it can justify developmentally tailored family support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to \"Maternal sensitivity and child behavior problems in the context of intimate partner violence\" by Marvin et al. (2026).","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/fam0001553","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001553","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reports an error in \"Maternal sensitivity and child behavior problems in the context of intimate partner violence\" by Matthew J. Marvin, Amy K. Nuttall, G. Anne Bogat, Joseph S. Lonstein, Cecilia Martinez-Torteya, Maria Muzik and Alytia A. Levendosky (&lt;i&gt;Journal of Family Psychology&lt;/i&gt;, Advanced Online Publication, Aug 10, 2026, np; see record 2028-10690-001). In the article, there was an error when CBCL scores were calculated. Affected rows of Tables 2 and 3 provided in the erratum report these corrections. Also, in the second paragraph of the Results section, the association of the interaction between postnatal IPV and maternal sensitivity and child externalizing behavior was previously non-significant (β = -.19, p = .08) but is now significant (β = -.21, p = .04), as hypothesized. Corrected Figure 2 now depicts regions of significance for that significant interaction. The fifth paragraph of the Discussion section should have discussed the buffering effect of maternal sensitivity for both internalizing and externalizing behaviors and concluded that maternal sensitivity can be a factor that buffers the effect of postnatal IPV on internalizing along with externalizing behaviors. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2028-10690-001). Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as physical, sexual, or psychological violence perpetrated by a romantic partner. When IPV occurs prenatally, it can affect the developing stress regulatory system of the fetus and confer risk for later behavior problems. Postnatal exposure to IPV is also linked to greater behavior problems in children, potentially due to the way that high-stress home environments can interfere with the development of self-regulation. Maternal sensitivity, on the other hand, is an important parenting factor that promotes children's adaptive self-regulation. The present study (&lt;i&gt;N&lt;/i&gt; = 446) examined whether maternal sensitivity influences the impact of maternal prenatal and postnatal IPV exposure on children's behavior. Findings revealed that prenatal IPV exposure predicted greater externalizing and internalizing behavior at child age 2.5 years. Postnatal IPV exposure was not associated with children's externalizing and internalizing behavior. However, the interaction between maternal sensitivity and postnatal IPV was significantly associated with child internalizing behavior. Follow-up analyses identified a significant positive association between postnatal IPV and child internalizing behavior at low levels of maternal sensitivity but a negative association between postnatal IPV and child internalizing behavior at high levels of maternal sensitivity. This suggests that some mothers can be highly sensitive caregivers or perhaps become even more sensitive caregivers, in the face of IPV exposure, which may protect children from the detrimental effects of IPV exposure on some aspects of adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149197365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions of relationship changes during pregnancy in Latinas: A qualitative study.","authors":"Isabel F Almeida, Ilona S Yim, Belinda Campos","doi":"10.1037/fam0001561","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001561","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pregnancy is shaped by complex social dynamics and interpersonal changes that influence how expecting mothers connect with their families and others around them. While social support has been linked to better maternal mental health, less is known about how relationships themselves change during pregnancy. This study explores how pregnant Latinas living in the United States perceive changes in their family, partner, and peer relationships and how these evolving connections influence their sense of support. A subset of 48 pregnant Latinas who participated in a larger study took part in a one-on-one interview conducted in English or Spanish. Participants were recruited from community-based and institutional settings. Thematic analysis revealed three key themes and six subthemes. First, participants described strengthened maternal bonds with their own mothers and other close family members, along with increased relatability with other pregnant women. Second, participants often reported social withdrawal and isolation. This was driven by pregnancy symptoms, exclusion from social activities, and changes in how others treated them as a result of the pregnancy. Third, participants described varied changes in romantic relationship dynamics, including increased emotional distance for some, stability for others, and a desire for greater partner involvement. This study highlights the role of interpersonal relationships in shaping Latina's pregnancy experiences. Changes in family relationships, especially with maternal figures, as well as with partners and peers, influenced participants' emotional well-being and belonging during pregnancy. These findings highlight the need to consider relational dynamics in support efforts for Latinas and their families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13674009/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149197323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying parent-sibling socialization profiles and their prospective associations with adolescents' interpersonal competence.","authors":"Yichun Liu, Mengya Xia","doi":"10.1037/fam0001543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001543","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family socialization plays a key role in adolescents' social development, yet little is known about how adolescents are socialized across different family subsystems beyond parental socialization. By using latent profile analysis to capture a holistic view of co-occurring family dynamics, this study aimed to identify different emotion socialization patterns in parent-adolescent and sibling subsystems and their longitudinal associations with adolescent interpersonal competence. Participants were 175 families with at least two children (target adolescent <i>M</i>_age = 14.09, 47.4% female). At baseline (Time 1), caregivers reported emotion coaching and adolescents' sibling companionship and aggression; at 6-month follow-up (Time 2), adolescents reported interpersonal competence. Latent profile analysis was used to identify distinct profiles of family-level socialization at Time 1 and how adolescents' interpersonal competence differs across profiles at Time 2. A five-profile solution of parent-sibling socialization provided the best fit: low-support (4%), sibling-positive (29%), parent-positive (11%), overall-negative (29%), and overall-positive (27%). Significant differences emerged in all dimensions of interpersonal competence: Overall-positive adolescents reported higher scores of asserting influence, self-disclosure, and conflict resolution than all other profiles and higher scores of initializing relationships than those in all profiles except low-support. In addition, sibling-positive adolescents scored higher than overall-negative adolescents in providing emotional support and conflict resolution. Findings highlight the importance of concurrently considering multiple family subsystems, particularly the sibling subsystem, in socialization processes and their collective implications on adolescents' interpersonal competence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Work-to-family conflict and family role performance among employed adult child caregivers: A moderated mediation model.","authors":"Yang Jia, Yanyan Zhang","doi":"10.1037/fam0001544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Work-to-family conflict has significant implications for adult child caregivers and the older parents they care for, and cultural values such as filial piety play a critical role in shaping these dynamics. By integrating the work-home resources model with the dual filial piety framework, this study offers a novel perspective on how filial piety shapes the resource-depletion processes linking work-to-family conflict with family role performance. We conducted two empirical studies to test our hypotheses. Study 1 employed a time-lagged survey design and included 292 full-time employees who regularly provided care to their aging parents. Study 2 adopted a weekly experience sampling design, involving 256 participants and yielding 1,265 observations over a 5-week period. The results reveal that work-to-family conflict is negatively associated with family role performance. Informal caregiver burnout mediates this relationship. Moreover, reciprocal filial piety buffers the indirect effect of work-to-family conflict on family role performance through caregiver burnout, whereas authoritarian filial piety amplifies it. These findings highlight the role of culturally embedded filial norms in shaping resource dynamics and provide actionable insights for promoting caregiver well-being and eldercare quality in rapidly aging societies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intergenerational stress proliferation in sexual and gender minority families: A stress accumulation model.","authors":"Qimin Liu, Kiyan Irani, John P Standring, Mingcong Tang, Violeta J Rodriguez","doi":"10.1037/fam0001523","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001523","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual and gender minority families navigate complex stress exposures that span developmental periods and social contexts, including early-life adversity, ongoing discrimination, and minority stress. This study tested competing models of stress accumulation and stress sensitization in a diverse, United States national sample of sexual and gender minority parents (<i>N</i> = 568) with children under the age of 18. Using multivariate distance matrix regression, we examined how parent-reported adverse childhood experiences, everyday discrimination, and internalizing symptoms were associated with multivariate profiles of parent and child mental health. Parent adverse childhood experiences, discrimination, anxiety, and depression were each independently associated with variation in child mental health outcomes, consistent with a stress accumulation model. No interaction effects consistent with stress sensitization emerged. These findings underscore the cumulative impacts of trauma-related stressors in sexual and gender minority families and highlight the utility of person-centered, multivariate methods for capturing co-occurring symptom patterns in intergenerational trauma research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1039-1050"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining relationship quality dimensions in couples raising autistic and nonautistic children.","authors":"Whitney Sullivan, Chrystyna D Kouros, Jacqueline Fidellow, Abbie Heidenreich, Naomi V Ekas","doi":"10.1037/fam0001490","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although there is a public perception that couples raising autistic children experience lower relationship quality, the existing body of research is inconsistent and focuses almost exclusively on couple conflict and relationship satisfaction. The present study extended prior research by comparing multiple dimensions of relationship quality between couples raising a child on the autism spectrum (<i>n</i> = 108) and couples raising a nonautistic child (<i>n</i> = 109). Couples were recruited from across the United States and fathers and mothers individually reported on their relationship quality (i.e., couple conflict, communication style, relationship satisfaction, power dynamics, intimacy, and dyadic coping) and participated in a virtually observed conflict interaction. Results indicated that parents of autistic and nonautistic children were not significantly different on any measure of relationship quality. Overall, mothers reported lower relationship satisfaction compared to fathers. The results of the study highlight the importance of focusing on individual differences within parents rather than differences between parents of autistic and nonautistic children. A notable strength of the study was a diverse sample in the United States. Implications for couples therapy and relationship education are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1185-1195"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148200687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}