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Profiles of autonomy support and controlling parenting: Mixing the two predicts lower child-perceived autonomy support. 自主支持和控制型父母：两者混合预测较低的儿童感知的自主支持。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001346

Jiseul Sophia Ahn, Hali Kil, Catherine F Ratelle, Geneviève A Mageau

{"title":"Profiles of autonomy support and controlling parenting: Mixing the two predicts lower child-perceived autonomy support.","authors":"Jiseul Sophia Ahn, Hali Kil, Catherine F Ratelle, Geneviève A Mageau","doi":"10.1037/fam0001346","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001346","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the well-documented developmental benefits and costs of autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting, little is known about the extent to which parents engage in both types of parenting in real life and its implications for child functioning. This study aimed to examine how combinations of these two seemingly opposite parenting dimensions may contribute to children's perceptions of parenting and developmental outcomes. To this end, we used a data set pooled from six independent samples, involving 3,843 Canadian parents (Mage = 41; 68% mothers) to identify profiles of parenting, using parent-reported autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors. Parent profiles were then associated with child-perceived parenting and child outcomes, as well as parent-related predictors. A latent profile analysis found four profiles of parents: In most cases, autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors covaried, most parents simultaneously exhibiting comparable levels of these two parenting dimensions, while only 17% of the parents reported engaging predominantly in autonomy support. This subgroup of parents was perceived by their children to be most autonomy-supportive; their children also showed better school grades and fewer externalizing problems. High-earning and highly educated parents tended to be predominantly autonomy-supportive, while parents whose self-worth was tied to their child's success (i.e., ego-involved parents) tended to resort predominantly to controlling parenting. Finally, we found that when controlling parenting is present, parents and children greatly differ in their assessments of autonomy support, with children perceiving less parental autonomy support than parents' self-reports. These findings shed light on the implications of pairing controlling with autonomy-supportive behaviors within a single parenting style. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"639-651"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052101","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}

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Parental psychological control and youths' internalizing symptoms in majority world contexts: A meta-analysis. 父母心理控制与青少年内化症状：一项荟萃分析。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001315

Braima Salaam, Eric Kyere

{"title":"Parental psychological control and youths' internalizing symptoms in majority world contexts: A meta-analysis.","authors":"Braima Salaam, Eric Kyere","doi":"10.1037/fam0001315","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001315","url":null,"abstract":"Majority World societies, often called the Global South, include countries in Asia, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Prior meta-analyses primarily on Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies found a significant association between higher parental psychological control and increased youth internalizing symptoms. However, it remains unclear whether this link generalizes beyond WEIRD populations, given potential cultural differences and their influences on parenting norms. Some argue the effect of psychological control is universal, while others suggest weaker or nonexistent links in Majority World cultures. The present meta-analysis examined the association between parental psychological control and internalizing problems among children and adolescents in Majority World contexts. Data were analyzed using 37 published and unpublished studies of families with youth (k = 48; N = 27,150; 57.4% females) conducted in 18 countries/groups between 1999 and 2024. Results revealed a modest, moderate-sized effect (r = .27), indicating a link between greater parental psychological control and higher internalizing symptoms. Furthermore, moderator analyses showed the effect was stronger when psychological control and internalization were youth-reported rather than parent-reported. The association was also more pronounced when a measure did not specify which parent provided psychological control as in undifferentiated (or parental), rather than a measure that referenced a specific parental figure, and in adolescent versus child samples. These findings indicate parental psychological control is associated with internalization among youths in Majority World cultures. Implications for parenting research as well as interventions aimed at reducing harmful control while supporting youth development are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"561-581"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041136","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}

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Sexual communication and satisfaction in young adults' monogamous and consensually nonmonogamous relationships. 年轻人一夫一妻制和双方同意的非一夫一妻制关系中的性交流和性满足。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001356

Emily S Bibby, Joanne Davila

{"title":"Sexual communication and satisfaction in young adults' monogamous and consensually nonmonogamous relationships.","authors":"Emily S Bibby, Joanne Davila","doi":"10.1037/fam0001356","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001356","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growing body of literature examining sexual communication in romantic relationships, diverse relationship structures have been severely underrepresented. This study examined differences in sexual communication and multiple sexual and relational outcome variables between people in monogamous and consensually nonmonogamous relationships. Participants included 576 young adults (ages 18-35 years old) in monogamous or consensually nonmonogamous relationships with at least one committed partner. Participants were asked to complete sexual communication as well as various commonly used sexual/relational outcome measures regarding a partner. Results of t tests and linear regression analyses suggested people in consensually nonmonogamous relationships had greater sexual communication quality compared with people in monogamous relationships. There were no additional differences detected in any of the other study variables. Significant associations between sexual communication and sexual and relational outcome variables were replicated and no differences in these associations based on relationship structure emerged. Implications and directions for future research are addressed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"603-613"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052028","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}

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Core dimensions of intimate relationship quality: Network analyses from the prenatal to postnatal period. 亲密关系质量的核心维度：产前至产后的网络分析。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001338

Eric M Phillips, Erin L Ramsdell, Rebecca L Brock

{"title":"Core dimensions of intimate relationship quality: Network analyses from the prenatal to postnatal period.","authors":"Eric M Phillips, Erin L Ramsdell, Rebecca L Brock","doi":"10.1037/fam0001338","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001338","url":null,"abstract":"The pregnancy to postpartum period is a critical time for couples, characterized by adjustments and challenges that can place them at risk for relationship decline. A deeper understanding of the multidimensional nature of intimate relationship quality during this transition is needed to effectively support couples. Despite recognizing that intimate relationship quality comprises interconnected domains, less is known about which aspects are the most pivotal for maintaining healthy relationship functioning during the pregnancy-postpartum period. The present study employed network analysis to address this gap, analyzing interview data from 159 mixed-sex couples. By modeling contemporaneous and cross-lagged network models, we assessed the influence and centrality of relationship domains including emotional intimacy, conflict management, sexual quality, respect, and support from pregnancy to 6 months postpartum. Our findings revealed that emotional intimacy and conflict management are the most central and influential domains of the relationship quality networks both contemporaneously and longitudinally. Results suggest that interventions aimed at enhancing emotional intimacy and managing conflict could be particularly effective during the prenatal and postpartum periods. Future research should continue to explore these dynamics, with an emphasis on longitudinal designs and diverse samples to inform the generalizability of the present findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"614-626"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12323507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039571","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}

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Intensive parenting among mothers and fathers: Identifying profiles and examining differences in parental involvement. 母亲和父亲之间的强化育儿：识别概况和检查父母参与的差异。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001283

Elli-Anastasia Lamprianidou, Cindy Eira Nunes, Jean-Philippe Antonietti, Stijn Van Petegem

{"title":"Intensive parenting among mothers and fathers: Identifying profiles and examining differences in parental involvement.","authors":"Elli-Anastasia Lamprianidou, Cindy Eira Nunes, Jean-Philippe Antonietti, Stijn Van Petegem","doi":"10.1037/fam0001283","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001283","url":null,"abstract":"The literature reveals particularly high standards of good parenting in Western societies, especially for mothers. However, parents as active agents of their parenting may react differently to societal prescriptions, and this variability may translate into different parental practices. The present article had two aims. A first aim was to identify profiles of parents by considering their adherence to intensive parenting beliefs, their perceived societal pressure to be a perfect parent, and their gender essentialist beliefs (i.e., the idea that mothers are naturally better parents than fathers). A second aim was to examine differences between parent profiles in terms of positive and negative parental involvement. To identify clusters among mothers and fathers, we conducted model-based cluster analysis (Fraley & Raftery, 1998) on a sample of 1,002 Belgian parents (609 mothers and 393 fathers) of adolescents (Mage = 16.83, SD = 0.96; 53% girls), based on parents' scores on intensive parenting beliefs, gender essentialism, and perceived societal pressure. Differences between mothers' and fathers' clusters were examined in terms of interpersonal involvement, responsiveness, autonomy support, overprotection and controlling parenting. Analyses revealed five clusters for mothers and three for fathers. In both samples, traditional intensive profiles were associated to higher levels of parental overprotection and controlling parenting whereas no cluster differences were found in terms of positive parenting. These results suggest that demanding social prescriptions of parenthood may have an ironical effect as they might push some mothers and fathers to adopt parenting practices that are less attuned to their adolescents' developmental needs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"675-686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933127","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}

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Longitudinal links between perinatal grief and sexual well-being for couples after pregnancy loss. 流产夫妇围产期悲伤与性健康的纵向联系。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001357

David B Allsop, Kathleen Nesbitt-Daly, Katherine Péloquin, Heather Cockwell, Natalie O Rosen

{"title":"Longitudinal links between perinatal grief and sexual well-being for couples after pregnancy loss.","authors":"David B Allsop, Kathleen Nesbitt-Daly, Katherine Péloquin, Heather Cockwell, Natalie O Rosen","doi":"10.1037/fam0001357","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001357","url":null,"abstract":"Pregnancy loss disrupts couples' sexual well-being, which is crucial to health and relationship quality, yet it is unclear what predicts sexual well-being postloss. Symbolic interactionism theory and prior literature point to perinatal grief as one potential predictor. Thus, our objective was to examine how perinatal grief of either couple member relates longitudinally to both couple members' sexual well-being after a pregnancy loss. We conducted multilevel structural equation modeling assessing whether fluctuations in perinatal grief were associated with fluctuations in sexual well-being for oneself and a partner among 109 couples who experienced a pregnancy loss in the past 4 months and who completed four monthly surveys. We also tested whether those with the highest average perinatal grief had the lowest average sexual well-being. When either partner reported greater than typical perinatal grief, both couple members reported lower than typical sexual satisfaction and sexual desire, and higher than typical sexual function problems and sexual distress. Those with the highest average perinatal grief had the lowest average sexual satisfaction and highest average sexual function problems and sexual distress. Higher perinatal grief may be a risk factor for lower sexual well-being. Couples who grieve effectively postloss may better manage sexual challenges. Practitioners can screen couples for perinatal grief as they assess impacts to sexuality, refer them to grief resources to promote sexual well-being, and invite them to discuss how meanings around sex may have changed postloss. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"627-638"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144182478","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}

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The family stress model during the coronavirus-19 pandemic: Identifying parental resilience factors. 冠状病毒-19大流行期间的家庭压力模型：确定父母的恢复力因素。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001387

Casey E Pearce, Elizabeth J Kiel

{"title":"The family stress model during the coronavirus-19 pandemic: Identifying parental resilience factors.","authors":"Casey E Pearce, Elizabeth J Kiel","doi":"10.1037/fam0001387","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001387","url":null,"abstract":"The family stress model provides a theoretical framework for understanding relations among economic hardship, parental distress, family relationships and behavior, and child outcomes. The present study aimed to replicate its paths with predictors and mechanisms studied before and over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and child problematic coping as the outcome. We also examined how sources of family resilience related directly to or moderated relations among family stress model variables. Participants included 170 families of predominantly non-Hispanic White background with varying socioeconomic circumstances. Assessments occurred across early childhood (age 2-4 years, prepandemic) and at two points during the pandemic (child mean ages = 7.32 and 7.80 years, respectively). Mothers completed laboratory observation (maternal warmth) and surveys prior to (income-to-needs, social support) and during (economic stress, maternal distress, negative parenting, child coping) the pandemic. Unexpectedly, higher prepandemic income-to-needs predicted greater maternal distress early in the pandemic. Prepandemic social support (inversely) and early pandemic maternal distress (positively) are related to early pandemic negative parenting. Prepandemic income-to-needs predicted early pandemic negative parenting indirectly through early pandemic maternal distress. When mothers reported a high number of positive changes during the pandemic, negative parenting predicted child involuntary engagement coping midpandemic. Social support predicted lower child involuntary engagement coping through lower negative parenting. Results replicated the risk path between parental distress and negative parenting, and extended risk to higher income families. Findings suggest that the family stress model provides a theoretical foundation from which to study risk and resilience processes in families during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12321217/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761840","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}

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Prevalence and risk factors for intimate partner violence victimization among Arab women in Israel. 以色列阿拉伯妇女亲密伴侣暴力受害的发生率和危险因素。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001381

Shireen Sokar

{"title":"Prevalence and risk factors for intimate partner violence victimization among Arab women in Israel.","authors":"Shireen Sokar","doi":"10.1037/fam0001381","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001381","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to investigate the prevalence and risk factors associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization among Arab women in Israel. This study used social-ecological theory and attachment theory as frameworks to predict the likelihood of women's IPV victimization. In addition, the study examined several sociodemographic factors, adult romantic attachment, and two forms of childhood maltreatment (i.e., experiencing parental violence and witnessing interparental violence) as possible predictors of women's IPV victimization. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a community sample of 303 married Arab women (Mage = 31.8, SD = 6.1) using a self-administered questionnaire. During their marriage, approximately 75% of women reported experiencing some form of IPV victimization, while 65.7% indicated such experiences in the year leading up to the study. The findings from the multivariate logistic regression analyses indicate that women's higher level of education was associated with a lower risk of IPV victimization. The results also revealed a lower risk for psychological IPV victimization among women with employed husbands. Furthermore, low household income was significantly associated with women's physical IPV but not psychological IPV victimization. Conversely, women's attachment insecurities and experiences of childhood maltreatment increased the risk of IPV victimization. These findings emphasize the need to proactively address IPV victimization and its associated risk factors among Arab women across various cultural contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734037","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}

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Developmental patterns of mother-child similarity in executive function and electroencephalogram coherence. 母子执行功能相似性和脑电图一致性的发展模式。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001374

Christina Bertrand, Yelim Hong, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Martha Ann Bell

{"title":"Developmental patterns of mother-child similarity in executive function and electroencephalogram coherence.","authors":"Christina Bertrand, Yelim Hong, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Martha Ann Bell","doi":"10.1037/fam0001374","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001374","url":null,"abstract":"Frontoparietal connectivity from electroencephalograms (EEG) and executive function (EF) behavioral task performance can elucidate one's capacity for cognitive self-regulation. Knowledge of mother-child similarity of EEG and EF behavioral performance provides insight into the developmental patterns of the organization and stabilization of these physiological and behavioral processes. The present study addresses a key question: does the similarity in EEG and EF task performance between children and their mothers exhibit a developmental increase from early to middle childhood? EEG frontoparietal coherence and behavioral performance during the completion of age-appropriate EF tasks were examined in children and their mothers. A socioeconomically diverse longitudinal sample of 175 mothers with their children at ages 3, 6, and 9 years completed laboratory visits. Results indicated that by child age 6 years, child-mother similarity had begun to emerge in EEG frontoparietal coherence. Moreover, and consistent with the study hypotheses, there was evidence of a pattern of increasing similarity in EEG frontoparietal coherence with increasing child age. There was also evidence of mother-child similarity in EF performance by age 9. These findings suggest that interventions targeting EF development may be more effective when engaging both mothers and children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313208/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650910","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}

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Caregiver emotional support and youth mental health after sexual abuse. 照顾者情感支持与青少年性虐待后的心理健康。

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Journal of Family Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1037/fam0001371

Melissa J Sitton, Renee McDonald, David Rosenfield, Madeline Reedy, Benjamin Rosenfield, Ernest N Jouriles

{"title":"Caregiver emotional support and youth mental health after sexual abuse.","authors":"Melissa J Sitton, Renee McDonald, David Rosenfield, Madeline Reedy, Benjamin Rosenfield, Ernest N Jouriles","doi":"10.1037/fam0001371","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fam0001371","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional support from a caregiver is theorized to benefit adolescents after sexual abuse, yet the empirical evidence for this is inconsistent. The present study examines the cross-sectional relation between caregiver emotional support and youth mental health symptoms after sexual abuse, addressing several methodological factors that may explain why previous studies failed to find the relation (sample size, approach to measurement). Participants were 460 youth between 11 and 17 (Mage = 13.78, SD = 1.77; 92.4% female; 56.3% Hispanic/Latino/a) who presented at a child advocacy center after disclosing sexual abuse, along with their nonoffending caregiver (Mage = 39.65, SD = 8.52). Youth and caregivers completed measures of caregiver emotional support and youth mental health. Results of multivariate multilevel modeling indicated that youth reports of caregiver emotional support were associated with youth mental health symptoms regardless of the informant of the symptoms (caregiver reports of youth mental health symptoms: B = -0.11, p = .006, d = .25; youth reports of mental health symptoms: B = -0.21, p < .001, d = .50). Caregiver reports of their emotional support were not associated with youth mental health symptoms. These findings highlight the importance of obtaining youth reports of caregiver emotional support in attempts to understand and address youth mental health symptoms following sexual abuse. The sample size and approach to measurement in this study bolster confidence in the findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48381,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144609995","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}

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