Jinjin Yan, Xin Li, Jun Wang, Barbara Bolick, Su Yeong Kim
{"title":"Sociocultural stress and warmth in Mexican immigrant mothers: The protective role of family obligation values.","authors":"Jinjin Yan, Xin Li, Jun Wang, Barbara Bolick, Su Yeong Kim","doi":"10.1037/fam0001382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guided by the Family Stress Model, this study investigated the moderating role of a culturally resilient factor (i.e., family obligation values) in the associations between maternal sociocultural stress (i.e., cultural stress and economic stress) and maternal warmth across two waves. Participants included 595 mothers (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 38.39, <i>SD</i> = 5.74) and adolescents (54% female, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.41, <i>SD</i> = 0.97) as dyads in Central Texas, United States. The results showed that maternal family obligation values played a protective role in both concurrent and longitudinal associations between cultural stress and warmth and in the concurrent link between economic stress and warmth among Mexican immigrant mothers. The findings suggest that a culturally resilient factor may buffer the negative impact of sociocultural stress on maternal warmth both concurrently and longitudinally. The findings offer significant insights for developing intervention programs aimed at enhancing maternal warmth despite experiencing high sociocultural stress. By emphasizing the importance of promoting maternal warmth and highlighting the value of promoting a culturally resilient factor (i.e., family obligation values), these programs may empower Mexican immigrant mothers to maintain resilience in the context of stress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145138578","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 continuity of childhood sexual and physical abuse: Using network analysis to explore risk.","authors":"Stephanie Gusler, Adrienne Whitt, Ginny Sprang, Jessica Eslinger","doi":"10.1037/fam0001400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The experience of childhood physical and sexual abuse has been consistently associated with a number of deleterious effects that extend across the lifespan, which has increased research interest in the risk for intergenerational continuity of abuse (i.e., a parent with a history of abuse who has a child who also experiences abuse). Although a number of potential risk factors have been posited or examined individually, prior literature often fails to account for associations among these risk factors, which limits intervention and prevention efforts. In the present study, secondary data were analyzed from 410 mother-child dyads. These data came from a deidentified clinical database of families with substantiated cases of child maltreatment. The present study used network analysis to explore the interconnection between risk factors associated with the continuity of sexual and physical abuse. Results showed that intergenerational continuity of sexual abuse was present for 8.5% of the sample, and intergenerational continuity of physical abuse was present for 7.8% of the sample. Mothers' substance use disorder and greater symptoms of hostility were directly associated with the intergenerational continuity of sexual abuse. No factors aside from the mother's and child's experience of physical abuse were directly associated with intergenerational continuity of physical abuse, in the network analysis. However, multiple patterns of risk emerged as indirectly connected to the intergenerational continuity of both sexual and physical abuse, which emphasized the importance of maternal mental health and adversity across the lifespan. Future research and clinical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145137536","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}
Carlos Vara-García, María Del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Celia Nogales-González, Ariadna de la Vega-Castelo, Tânia Brandão, Rosa Romero-Moreno
{"title":"Development of the Family Interference With Leisure Scale on parents of children aged 0-6.","authors":"Carlos Vara-García, María Del Sequeros Pedroso-Chaparro, Celia Nogales-González, Ariadna de la Vega-Castelo, Tânia Brandão, Rosa Romero-Moreno","doi":"10.1037/fam0001403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A newborn in the family results in several life changes, including the emergence and stress of conflicts between family roles and other roles. However, family interference with leisure has not been addressed in the scientific literature yet. The aim of this study was to develop and analyze the psychometric properties of the Family Interference with Leisure Scale (FILS) in a sample of parents of children between 0 and 6 years old. One hundred sixty-four parents of at least one child between 0 and 6 years old participated in this study. Participants completed a self-assessment protocol, which included the FILS, along with measures of parental stress, frequency of leisure activities, and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted for the FILS, along with correlational and hierarchical regression analyses between FILS scores and the other variables of the study. The results suggest a unidimensional structure of the FILS, explaining 74% of the variance of family interference with leisure. Good reliability was found (Cronbach's α = .88). Additionally, results show that higher scores on FILS were associated with higher levels of parental stress, more depressive and anxiety symptoms, and a lower frequency of leisure activities. These findings suggest good psychometric properties of the FILS, endorsing its use for measuring family interference with leisure in parents. In addition, the results suggest that the role conflict between family and leisure activities may play a key role in the understanding of parental stress and parents' psychological distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082247","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 family stress model across diverse family structures in the United States.","authors":"Yushan Zhao, Todd M Jensen, Ashley Munger","doi":"10.1037/fam0001401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The family stress model (FSM) posits that socioeconomic status affects child developmental outcomes through parental mental health and parenting practices. Although the FSM has been validated in various contexts, there is limited research on its applicability across diverse family structures in the United States. This study uses multigroup structural equation modeling to test the FSM across three family types: biologically connected/adopted two-parent families (T-B/A), stepfamilies (ST), and single-parent families (SP) among a representative sample of children in the United States (<i>N</i> = 28,234; <i>M</i>age = 12.5 years; 13,671 females and 14,563 males). The results show that family structure moderates three of the nine pathways in the FSM. Specifically, the association between socioeconomic status and parental mental health and the association between parental aggravation and children's grades are stronger in T-B/A families than in ST and SP families. The association between parental aggravation and children's mental health is similar between T-B/A families and ST but weaker for SP families. The remaining associations in the FSM are consistent across the three family structures. Overall, these findings confirm the theoretical utility of the FSM across common family structures and also highlight the need to incorporate family structure-related variables, such as stressors unique to ST and SP families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065906","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}
Phil Sternberg Lamb, Or Dagan, Keely A Dugan, Maria E Bleil, Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Glenn I Roisman
{"title":"Childhood interpersonal antecedents of adult romantic relationship adjustment: Prospective evidence from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.","authors":"Phil Sternberg Lamb, Or Dagan, Keely A Dugan, Maria E Bleil, Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Glenn I Roisman","doi":"10.1037/fam0001398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001398","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report leveraged the subsample of romantically involved participants in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at the most recent assessment of the cohort (<i>n</i> = 505; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 28.6 years; 58.1% female; 81.7% White/non-Hispanic) to study the role of three theoretically salient childhood interpersonal experiences as potential antecedents of self-reported romantic relationship adjustment in early adulthood. Predictors were measured multiple times prospectively in childhood through adolescence and included (a) direct observations of maternal sensitivity in dyadic interactions with participants from age 1 month through 15 years, (b) participants' reports of the quality of their best friendships from Grade 3 to age 15 years, and (c) participants' primary caregivers' reports about the quality of their own romantic relationships when target participants were being reared. Composite assessments of these three childhood interpersonal exposures were each uniquely predictive of participants' romantic relationship adjustment in young adulthood after accounting for demographic covariates, though the overall effect size was modest (Δ<i>R</i>² = .05). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034400","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":"Religion as a basis for the intergenerational transmission of altruistic values to emerging adults.","authors":"Seonhwa Lee, Merril Silverstein, Tae Kyoung Lee, Wencheng Zhang, RianSimone Orissa Harris","doi":"10.1037/fam0001396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001396","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research suggests that parents are effective transmitters of altruistic values to their children, and this transmission can flow through the route of religion. However, trends of weakening religious identification and strengthening prosocial values in contemporary emerging adults suggest a decoupling of religion from prosociality in the contemporary family context. This study examines the ways parents' religiosity influences their children's altruistic values, explicitly focusing on the religious pathways by which these values are transmitted in mother-child and father-child relationships. This study addressed the role of religion in the intergenerational transmission of altruistic values using data from 123 mothers, 76 fathers, and 233 adolescent/young adult children in 149 families who participated in the 2021-2022 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Generations. Results revealed a significant influence of mothers' and fathers' religiosity on the altruistic values of children but each through a different pathway. Mothers' religiosity influenced children's altruistic values by promoting their children's religiosity, while fathers' religiosity influenced their children's altruistic values by transmitting their own religiously formed altruistic values. Findings support that mothers inculcate altruistic values in their children through religious means, while fathers' religious influence on the altruistic values of children is potentially hidden from them. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034418","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}
Jingyi Wang, Julianna R Calabrese, Minjung Kim, Sarah J Schoppe-Sullivan
{"title":"Coparenting from multiple perspectives and associations with child and family functioning.","authors":"Jingyi Wang, Julianna R Calabrese, Minjung Kim, Sarah J Schoppe-Sullivan","doi":"10.1037/fam0001402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coparenting relationships play an important role in shaping marital satisfaction, parenting behavior, and children's social-emotional adjustment. Coparenting relationship quality can be measured via parent self-report and direct observation. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses, providing different perspectives on coparenting relationships. However, most studies rely on one method-typically mother report-to assess coparenting quality, yielding an incomplete picture of coparenting dynamics. The present study obtained maternal reports, paternal reports, and observations of coparenting relationships in 160 dual-earner different-sex parent families (86% White, 88% married) with infants. Latent profile analysis was conducted to identify patterns in coparenting relationships and their associations with child and family functioning. Four distinct coparenting relationship profiles were identified: high-convergent (42%), high-reported, moderate-observed (34%), moderate-high-reported, mother less positive, low-observed (13%), and moderate-reported, father less positive, moderate-high observed (11%). Profile membership was associated with parents' marital satisfaction, positive parental engagement, and children's social-emotional adjustment. Overall, families in the high-convergent profile had the best family and child outcomes. Even though parents in the high-reported, moderate-observed profile perceived their coparenting relationships just as positively, these families experienced greater risk for compromised family functioning and child adjustment compared to families in the high-convergent profile. Obtaining observations and fathers' reports of coparenting in addition to mothers' reports appears desirable to understand the roles of coparenting in family functioning, particularly in children's social-emotional adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034354","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":"Individual resilience and family resilience in left-behind children: A longitudinal network analysis.","authors":"Mengyao Yang, Lu Ao, Yuanyuan An, Guangzhe Yuan","doi":"10.1037/fam0001359","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001359","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The left-behind children are children aged below 16, who remain in their hometowns without one or both parents' presence. Both individual resilience and family resilience play a crucial role in how left-behind children cope positively with adversity. Few studies have attempted to explore the dynamic processes of individual resilience and family resilience of left-behind children from a dimensional perspective. To address this gap, this study employed a cross-lagged panel network model to examine the complex interactions among various resilience components. A total of 2,259 left-behind children completed the survey in December 2018 (T1), and 1,991 of them completed the assessments 4 months later (T2). A final sample of 1,708 Chinese left-behind children (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.94, <i>SD</i> = 1.56; 47.50% girls) completed a survey at both waves. The results indicated that \"maintaining a positive outlook\" is the most critical dimension of beliefs connecting children's individual resilience and family resilience. Perceived beliefs about maintaining a positive outlook across the whole family at T1 were found to be associated with the three dimensions of individual resilience at T2, rather than the reverse. This suggests that family belief systems may represent a pivotal point of intervention for left-behind children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"806-815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200462","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}
Oana Bucsea, David Flora, Dillon T Browne, Heather Prime
{"title":"Reciprocal processes linking marital conflict and sibling relationship challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Oana Bucsea, David Flora, Dillon T Browne, Heather Prime","doi":"10.1037/fam0001336","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During times of stress, families are tasked with maintaining or reestablishing a state of equilibrium in order to cope with stress on the family system. The pandemic context represents an opportunity to study the interdependencies between family members and relationships under duress. The present study examined the transactional effects linking the marital and sibling subsystems throughout the early months of the pandemic. It was hypothesized that more marital conflict would predict more sibling relationship challenges, and vice versa, across the pandemic and that COVID-19 stress would moderate this relationship. Participants included 505 caregivers who reported on two children (sibling dyads) in the home at four time points (T1: May 2020; T2: July 2020; T3: September 2020; T4: November 2020). Caregivers reported on pandemic-related stress at T1, and marital conflict and sibling relationship challenges (conflict and lack of support) at T1-T4. Using a four-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel model, results showed that, on average, more marital conflict was related to more sibling relationship challenges (<i>p</i> < .001). However, negative cross-lagged effects linked marital and sibling relationship challenges throughout the pandemic, such that greater sibling challenges at T1 predicted less marital conflict at T2 (<i>p</i> = .04), which in turn predicted greater sibling relationship challenges at T3 (<i>p</i> = .03). Degree of pandemic-related stress did not moderate the cross-lagged effects between marital conflict and sibling relationship challenges (<i>p</i> = .22). Differential mechanisms linking sibling and marital functioning may account for stable between-family differences (i.e., spillover) as compared with within-family fluctuations over time (i.e., compensation). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"756-766"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804546","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 psychological needs, parenting practices, and adolescent internalizing mood in daily life.","authors":"Gizem Keskin, Nancy L Sin, Jessica P Lougheed","doi":"10.1037/fam0001375","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autonomy-supportive parenting is essential for positive developmental outcomes for youth, whereas psychological control can have detrimental effects. When parents' psychological needs are met, they are more likely to show autonomy-supportive parenting, and when parents report greater psychological need frustration, they are more likely to parent with psychological control. We tested how parental psychological needs can predict adolescent internalizing mood through parenting practices in daily life. Parent-adolescent dyads (<i>N</i> = 171) completed daily diaries for 14 days to rate parental psychological needs, parenting practices, and adolescent internalizing mood. We conducted multilevel mediation analyses (i.e., 1-1-1 and 2-2-2 design) to examine the effect of parental psychological needs on adolescent internalizing mood through parent parenting practices. When parents' daily psychological needs were met, they practiced more supportive parenting practices in daily life, which in turn was associated with better adolescent mood. Most of these mediation effects were not found when examining long-term characteristics. Our findings point toward the importance of disentangling day-to-day fluctuations in behaviors and experiences than to long-term associations between them in families' daily lives to better understand family dynamics and adolescent well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"861-872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144676196","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}