Journal of Family Psychology最新文献

{"title":"Residence time, children's mental health, and parent-child relationships in separated families: A longitudinal study.","authors":"Maria Morbech, Kristin Gustavson, Tonje Holt","doi":"10.1037/fam0001493","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the longitudinal association between the division of children's residence time between parents and their depressive and anxiety symptoms using children's self-reports. We also explored whether the quality of mother-child and father-child relationships moderated the associations between residence time with the father and children's mental health symptoms. The sample included 266 children aged 6-16 years at baseline from 217 families recruited through family counseling offices across Norway. Mixed-effects regression models were used to assess associations between a continuous measure of division of residence time and children's depressive and anxiety symptoms across four time points. Results indicated that a more equal division of residence time between parents was associated with a weaker increase in anxiety symptoms over time compared to a less equal division of residence time. Children with a conflictual father-child relationship had higher levels of depressive symptoms when division of residence time was more equal between parents. These findings suggest that equal division of residence time may help buffer against increasing anxiety symptoms. However, if the father-child relationship was conflictual, increased residence time with the father was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. The results highlight the importance of considering relational dynamics when advising on residence arrangements for children when parents live apart. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346828","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":"Time in online education predicted parental involvement in their children's education during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Rachelle M Johnson, Hongcui Du, Callie W Little, Sara A Hart","doi":"10.1037/fam0001498","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-reaching, global impacts on families that continue to be felt, particularly in education. Past research has documented changes in parents' involvement in their children's education during, as compared to before, the COVID-19 pandemic. It is often assumed that these changes are due to the increased burden placed on parents due to education being moved online in an effort to prevent disease spread. Despite this widely accepted assertion, the present study is the first to empirically investigate and support that the amount of time children were in online education predicted parents' involvement in their children's learning during the pandemic. This was done in the present preregistered study with data on 833 parents from across the United States with twin children in kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2020-2021 school year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that parents of children who spent a higher percentage of the school year in online education demonstrated more agency in education than parents of children who spent less of the school year in online education. In addition, time spent in online education was associated with parents' school partnership confidence. These results held when controlling for parents' education level and children's grade level, each of which also predicted parental involvement. However, the association between online education and parent involvement differed by age group. We conclude that time spent in online education predicted parents' involvement in their children's education during the COVID-19 pandemic, but this differed by various factors of parental involvement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13317710/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346910","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":"Supportive parenting moderates the link between parents' and children's internalizing symptoms in families of color.","authors":"Kristin E Rabil, Elizabeth R Wiggins, Julie M Brisson, Tianyi Yu, Katherine B Ehrlich","doi":"10.1037/fam0001508","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent and child internalizing symptoms are linked, and recent efforts have been made to identify protective factors that may disrupt this association. We examined whether children's perceptions of their parent as a secure base and parents' perceptions of their nurturant-involved parenting moderate the links between parent and child internalizing symptoms. Participants included children (<i>N</i> = 167, <i>M</i>_age = 11.5 years, <i>SD</i> = 2.6 years; 49.1% girls) who identified as Black/African American (60%) or Hispanic/Latino (40%) and their parents. Children reported on their depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety symptoms, and secure base use. Parents reported on their depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety symptoms, and nurturant parenting practices. Analyses revealed that children's secure base use and parent-reported nurturant-involved parenting mitigated the associations between parent and child internalizing symptoms, such that links between parent and child symptoms were significant only when children reported low secure base use or parents reported low nurturant-involved parenting. These findings suggest that involved and dependable parenting can serve as a protective factor for Black and Latino youth when parents experience elevated internalizing symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13308154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148319867","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":"Trait responses after interpersonal offending: A dyadic examination of effects on romantic relationship quality.","authors":"Marilyn A Cornish, Shilpa R Maddikunta, Cassandra J Grey, Aleah J Horton, Latifat O Cabirou","doi":"10.1037/fam0001448","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As with all types of relationships, romantic relationships will involve at least occasional instances of interpersonal harm. When one partner commits a transgression against the other, how they respond next may influence whether the situation resolves or escalates. Research has identified three main response patterns to interpersonal transgressions-self-forgiveness, self-exoneration, and self-condemnation-each with potential relationship consequences that may either support or hinder the relationship. We examined these three response tendencies with romantic partners to understand their dyadic effect on relationship quality. In our sample of 216 adults in 108 heterosexual romantic relationships of at least 1 year, we found actor and partner effects for both trait self-forgiveness and trait self-exoneration. One partner's level of trait self-forgiveness positively predicted both their own and their partner's relationship quality, and the level of trait self-exoneration negatively predicted both their own and their partner's relationship quality. Self-condemnation was not a significant predictor in our model. We did not find any sex differences in our models. We discuss the implications of these findings for couples counseling and other contexts. We also discuss the potentially complicated nature of self-condemnation in relationship functioning, addressing ways it could both help and hinder some aspects of the relationship. Overall, this study highlights the potential benefits of promoting self-forgiveness and reducing self-exoneration tendencies on relationship quality for both partners in romantic relationships where one partner has transgressed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"625-632"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146087759","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":"Attachment network, interparental conflict, and older siblings' behavior predicting toddler behavior problems.","authors":"Myriam Al Bcherraoui, Brenda L Volling, Lin Tan, Richard Gonzalez","doi":"10.1037/fam0001442","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Secure infant-father and infant-mother attachments are associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in childhood. The attachment network underscores relationships with both fathers and mothers to form four distinct configurations of attachment security (e.g., both secure, both insecure). This exploratory study had three aims: (a) to confirm the four classifications of the attachment network with fathers and mothers, (b) to examine whether longitudinal trajectories of toddler behavior problems differed as a function of the attachment network from 18 to 36 months, and (c) to test whether the attachment network would predict toddler behavior problems when other family risk factors (interparental conflict, older siblings' behavior problems) were added as predictors. Participants were 184 second-born, 12-month olds (55.9% girls) who participated in the strange situation procedure with fathers and mothers and were classified into four attachment configurations: both secure, both insecure, secure-mother/insecure-father, insecure-mother/secure-father. Longitudinal linear mixed models were conducted on a subsample of 150 families with both parent reports on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems when toddlers were 18-, 24-, and 36-month old, and interparental conflict and the older siblings' behavior problems when toddlers were 12-month old. Results revealed no effects of attachment in predicting toddlers' behavior problems; only the older siblings' behavior problems predicted toddler behavior problems from 18 to 36 months. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"494-503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12823040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146012940","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":"Psychological distress and partnership quality in parents: A 20-year longitudinal study.","authors":"Yan Li, Jallu Lindblom, Mervi Vänskä, Raija-Leena Punamäki, Philipp Kanske, Marjo Flykt","doi":"10.1037/fam0001446","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This preregistered study examined bidirectional associations between parental psychological distress (PD) and relationship quality (RQ) from pregnancy to children's adolescence, assessing both within-individual and cross-partner effects, and testing the strength and gender differences in these associations. Previous studies have analyzed the links between parental PD and RQ, but research covering the whole range of active parenting years in both parents is limited. Moreover, prior research has primarily focused on relationship intimacy, often overlooking autonomy and the balance between the two. This longitudinal study involved 375 intact Finnish couples who answered questionnaires on PD and RQ during pregnancy, postpartum, and the child's middle childhood and late adolescence. The associations between PD and RQ were assessed with random intercept cross-lagged panel models based on both sum and balance scores of intimacy and autonomy, and individual scales. At the state level, PD was associated with higher overall RQ (i.e., a combination of intimacy and autonomy) and higher autonomy at unique parenting stages. However, PD predicted lower intimacy and less relationship enmeshment (i.e., a combination of more autonomy than intimacy) during early parenting years. PD predicted RQ more than the reverse and fathers' RQ was more strongly predicted by mothers' distress than the corresponding prediction from fathers to mothers. At the trait level, PD and RQ showed consistently negative associations. Our findings highlight the importance of understanding how PD shapes RQ over time, emphasizing the dynamic interplay between autonomy and intimacy in family relationships throughout the parenting years. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"591-602"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146054640","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":"Parental depressive symptoms and parent-infant interactive synchrony: An actor-partner interdependence mediation model.","authors":"Nilo Puglisi, Nicolas Favez, Valentine Rattaz, Manuella Epiney, Chantal Razurel, Hervé Tissot","doi":"10.1037/fam0001429","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the influence of parental depressive symptoms on interactive synchrony, an indicator of parent-infant interaction quality. Although research has shown the negative impact of maternal depressive symptoms-both prenatal and postnatal-on interactive synchrony, little is known about the impact of paternal depressive symptoms, particularly prenatal ones. From a family systems perspective, parental mental health is interdependent, with one parent's symptoms often associated with their partner's. However, it has not been investigated whether prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms in one parent are associated with their partner's interactive synchrony with the infant. We hypothesized that higher prenatal depressive symptoms reported by both parents would be associated with reduced interactive synchrony in their own (actor effects) and in their partner's (partner effects; no directional hypothesis was specified based on previous findings) interactions with the infant. We also hypothesized postnatal depressive symptoms as mediators of target associations. Using an actor-partner interdependence mediation model, we analyzed data from 86 families. Both parents reported their symptoms at 36-38 weeks of pregnancy and 3-4 months after birth. Interactive synchrony was observed during a lab visit at the postnatal assessment. For mothers only, we found significant actor effects between higher prenatal symptoms and reduced interactive synchrony. No partner effects emerged nor did postnatal symptoms play a mediator role. A total effect from paternal prenatal symptoms to mother-infant interactive synchrony emerged. These findings highlight the importance of both parents in research on interactive synchrony to improve the understanding of reciprocal influences within the family. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"534-543"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991129","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":"Testing the generalizability of couple communication typologies: A multisite replication and extension study.","authors":"Alexandra K Wojda-Burlij, Amy K Otto, Richard E Heyman, Shu Xu, Natalia Lapshina, Maija Reblin","doi":"10.1037/fam0001438","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001438","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on couple typologies has advanced our understanding of the communication patterns that distinguish happy from distressed partners. However, this work has suffered from a lack of conceptual and methodological cohesion and replication in large, heterogeneous samples, resulting in idiosyncratic typologies with limited generalizability beyond their initial development. The present study replicates and extends prior research by testing the external validity of previous communication typologies in a multisite sample of couples. We combined data from 13 studies that used the Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System to observe communication during mixed-gender couples' 10-min conflict interactions (<i>N</i> = 1,957). We used latent profile analysis to examine men's and women's (a) positive, negative, and neutral behavior and (b) positive and negative reciprocity. Groups were compared on relationship satisfaction and intimate partner violence to further characterize differences among couple subtypes. A five-class solution revealed couples whose communication can be described as (a) task-oriented (low positivity/negativity, high neutral problem discussion; 53%), (b) warm (high positivity/low negativity; 24%), (c) hostile (low positivity/high negativity; 9%), (d) expressive (high positivity/negativity; 7%), and (e) warm-but-reactive (high positivity/low negativity, high negative reciprocity; 6%). Men and women reported the highest levels of satisfaction in the warm, task-oriented, and warm-but-reactive groups. Intimate partner violence was highest in the hostile and expressive groups. These outcomes are largely concordant with the previous findings and should increase the field's confidence in the generalizability of earlier typologies. Our findings also raise new questions about the heterogeneous nature of communication among happy couples. We discuss these questions and their clinical implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"603-613"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12834490/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146012935","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":"Impact of children's self-harm on caregivers' mental health and family functioning.","authors":"Ana Ortin-Peralta, Beverlin Rosario-Williams, Ateret P Frank Brauner, Aimee M Starr, Sajel Arya","doi":"10.1037/fam0001427","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001427","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined cross-sectional and prospective differences in mental health and family functioning among caregivers aware of their child's self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs), caregivers unaware of their child's SITBs, and caregivers of children without SITBs. Data were drawn from an epidemiological U.S. sample of children (ages 9-10) and their caregivers who participated in three yearly assessments as part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (<i>N</i> = 11,303, 47.6% female). Caregivers reported on their own mental health problems and SITBs, their child's SITBs, and family conflict. Children reported on their own SITBs, family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental acceptance. Compared to caregivers of children without SITBs (81%), both aware (9.9%) and unaware (9.1%) caregivers reported more externalizing problems at baseline. Their children reported more family conflict and lower parental monitoring and acceptance across assessments. Relative to unaware caregivers and caregivers of children without SITBs, aware caregivers reported elevated internalizing problems at baseline and greater odds of engaging in SITBs at baseline and follow-up. Compared to children of unaware caregivers, children of aware caregivers reported lower family conflict and higher parental monitoring and acceptance at baseline. In contrast, aware caregivers reported higher family conflict at baseline and 1 year later compared to unaware caregivers. Overall, caregivers of children with SITBs, whether aware or unaware, experienced more mental health problems and long-term effects on family functioning. Aware caregivers also reported higher SITB risk. Family-based interventions with a focus on caregivers' mental health may help reduce children's SITBs and family suffering. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"523-533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13488864/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146054647","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":"Introducing the social relations model for undirected data.","authors":"Lara Stas, William L Cook, Leila Van Imschoot, Tom Loeys","doi":"10.1037/fam0001440","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of dyadic data has become essential to understanding family relationships. While directed dyadic data capture a person's relationship to a partner, resulting in two scores per dyad, undirected dyadic data measure something that is common to two people using a single score, for example, the distance two people stand from each other while conversing. This article introduces a modification of the family social relations model specifically developed for undirected data, a new framework to analyze undirected data for distinguishable dyad members. The model allows researchers to determine the contribution of individual-, dyadic-, and family-level components on undirected measures. We illustrate the model using data on shared family meals among dyad members in 99 two-parent two-child families. The analysis reveals that factors at all three levels of analysis determine how often two family members share a meal, but characteristics of the family as a group are most important. We also introduce an innovative approach to estimating the family factor, one that allows different dyadic scores to be affected differently by the family climate. Finally, we introduce an online app that implements the analysis of the family social relations model for undirected data, minimizing the need for confirmatory factor analysis skills. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"633-650"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146054583","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}