CJ Eubanks Fleming, Abbey Rose, Kerry Barba, Marli Siciliano
Objective
The current study asked U.S.-based participants to describe how the pandemic had changed their relationship with their intimate partner during the initial lockdown in March–May 2020, and then again in February–March 2021.
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major stressor for couples and families.
Method
The study includes 592 partnered individuals drawn from a larger study evaluating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on life at home. Participants were 84.5% women, and 89.8% were White. Responses were coded by a four-person team using a pragmatic coding approach with good reliability.
Results
Codes were grouped together into five categories: stated emotion words, positive changes, negative changes, changes described with mixed emotional descriptors by different participants, and changes in parenting (that did not always have a specific valence). At Time 1, 52% of respondents noted positive changes and 60% of respondents described negative changes. At Time 3, 68% indicated positive changes and 65% indicated negative changes.
Conclusion
Findings suggest great variability in experiences that couples and families have had over the past few years.
Implications
This combination of open-ended inquiry and longitudinal study offers a unique perspective on the effects of the pandemic on family life.
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Chih-Wen Wu, Li-Tuan Chou, Ching-Ling Cheng, Miao-Ju Tu
Objective
In the present study, the cognitive theory of stress and coping was adopted as a framework and a mediation model was developed to investigate the long-term effect of fathers' involvement in child care and mothers' appraisal of a supportive coparenting partnership (SCP) on postpartum depressed mood (PDM) and parenting self-efficacy (PSE) in Taiwanese new mothers.
Background
Due to the risk of PDM and low PSE, many new mothers struggle with first-time motherhood. It is therefore meaningful to investigate the benefits of potential protective factors that can reduce the risk of PDM and enhance PSE, such as fathers' involvement in child care and mothers' appraisal of an SCP, to improve new mothers' postpartum adjustment.
Method
Using secondary data from the nationwide longitudinal project Kids in Taiwan, we analyzed data provided by 2,020 Taiwanese new mothers at 3 and 6 months after delivery. We conducted structural equation modeling to test our hypothetical mediation model.
Results
Fathers' involvement in child care was significantly positively related to mothers' appraisal of an SCP, which in turn had a significant effect on reducing the risk of PDM and increasing PSE in Taiwanese new mothers both concurrently and 3 months later.
Conclusion
This study highlighted the concurrent and long-term benefits of fathers' involvement in child care for new mothers' postpartum adjustment and the importance of new mothers' appraisal of an SCP as a significant mediator.
Implications
These findings warrant the attention and efforts of family life educators, marriage counselors, and other experts in related fields to promote better parenting experiences for new parents.
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We examine the relationship between shared placement and parenting stress for low-income fathers.
Background
Shared placement (joint physical custody), a living arrangement in which children whose parents live apart spend a significant amount of time living with each, has increased among families in the United States. Little is known about how this placement affects fathers' well-being, especially fathers with lower incomes and who have had a nonmarital birth.
Method
Our sample included 5,755 noncustodial fathers who enrolled in the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration. Using regression approaches, we estimate associations between measures of self-reported placement and parenting stress.
Results
We found that shared placement was statistically significantly associated with lower parenting stress levels (estimated magnitude of 5%–10%) compared with fathers without shared placement. This held for fathers with equal placement and those with substantial, but not equal, time. These results were consistent when accounting for confounding characteristics, suggesting the association may not be fully explained by selection into shared placement.
Conclusion
Shared placement is associated with lower levels of parenting stress for low-income noncustodial fathers compared with those fathers without it. We find that this holds true for any shared placement, equal placement, mother primary shared placement, and father primary shared placement.
Implications
Given the potential benefits of shared care, examining whether policy and practice are supporting this for lower resourced families may be particularly important. Fatherhood and other family-strengthening programs can support fathers in navigating potential stress driven by shared parenting arrangements.
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Sumbleen Ali, Ronald P. Rohner, Preston A. Britner, Andrew Jahn
Objective
This study tested the hypothesis that adults who report having been unloved/rejected in childhood are likely to show greater activation in specific brain regions than adults who report a history of parental love/acceptance.
Background
Interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory) argues that a specific set of effects of perceived parental acceptance and rejection appear with such near invariance across populations worldwide that it is likely that they are related to humankind's common biocultural evolution. If this is true, specific brain mechanisms are likely to differentially characterize responses to parental acceptance versus rejection.
Method
Using fMRI, the study experimentally manipulated rejection during a computer-based ball-toss game among 40 young adults. One group reported having been loved/accepted by both parents in childhood and self-reported being psychologically well-adjusted (AcceptedAdjusted, n = 20). The other group reported having been unloved/rejected by both parents in childhood and self-reported being psychologically maladjusted (RejectedMaladjusted, n = 20).
Results
Members of the RejectedMaladjusted group—as compared to members of the AcceptedAdjusted group—had increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, insula, cuneus, precuneus, and amygdala. These brain regions critically support emotion processing.
Conclusion
This study provides a foundation for understanding neural mechanisms underlying emotion processing, as influenced by adults' memories of parental love or lack of love (acceptance-rejection) in childhood.
Implications
Findings may help clinicians and practitioners design therapeutic interventions that can lead to structural and functional changes in brain areas associated with emotion regulation, possibly counteracting some of the negative effects of early emotional trauma.
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Juliane Gessulat, Katharina Kluczniok, Elisa Oppermann, Yvonne Anders
Objective
To investigate relationships among parental self-efficacy, home learning activities, and children's socioemotional and language skills for preschool children.
Background
Higher parental self-efficacy is often related to better child skills and with more home learning activities. However, the relationships between parental self-efficacy, home learning activities, and children's skills have not yet been investigated.
Method
The path models draw on data from 727 parents of preschool children (full sample: 85.1% female, 50.9% employed, 24.8% non-German family language) and a subsample of 108 parents of preschool children who soon transition to elementary school in Germany. The self-report data come from the German evaluation study “Language Daycare Centers.”
Results
We found significant positive links among (a) general parental self-efficacy with home learning activities and children's language skills, (b) language supporting parental self-efficacy with home learning activities and children's socioemotional skills, and (c) a negative link between language supporting parental self-efficacy and children's socioemotional problems.
Conclusion
The more self-efficacious parents felt, the more often they offered home learning activities and the higher they rated their children's language skills at age 5 years.
Implication
The findings highlight the importance of parental self-efficacy for engaging with children and the positive parental assessment of children's skills. Promoting parental self-efficacy might stimulate home learning activities and improve the home learning environment.
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Jeremy B. Yorgason, Dikla Segel-Karpas, Ashley Ermer, Hailey Weller, Shenan Owens, Brandan E. Wheeler
Objective
This study explored how marital financial collaboration and approval along with financial constructs predicted midlife couples' reports of retirement financial concerns.
Background
Retirement is an expected time of life that many couples plan for in advance. Despite knowing that years of life without regular income are anticipated, many people experience financial strain in retirement, which can impact their marital happiness.
Method
Data for this study came from a sample of 324 midlife (Mage = 44 years) couples that participated in the Flourishing Families study. We examined predictors of financial worries for retirement using dyadic probit regression models.
Results
Results suggested that both husbands and wives worried about having insufficient income and heavy debt in retirement, and that husbands had particular concerns about excess spending. Findings from predictive models suggested that husbands and wives both reported that better financial collaboration, husbands' approval of partners' financial behaviors, better physical health, and to some degree higher income, higher education, and having retirement savings, were protective against financial worries for retirement. In contrast, wives' reports of having retirement benefits and working more hours per week were risk factors.
Conclusion
Marital financial collaboration and approval of partner financial responsibility by both members of dyads may have lifelong benefits, including as couples prepare for retirement.
Implications
Efforts to provide greater access to retirement savings plans may also support couples from various social and economic backgrounds. Findings suggest that marital happiness in retirement could be increased as spouses work together in financial aspects of their lives.
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This study examined the journey back to routine of mothers of children who died by suicide.
Objective
This research was aimed at understanding mothers' thoughts, emotions, and coping strategies with the loss of their child, using the salutogenic approach and examining their perceptions of available coping resources to study their sense of coherence and thereby promote relevant professional interventions.
Method
Semistructured in-depth interviews with 30 mothers aged 50 to 65 years who had lost a child in the preceding 4 to 18 years.
Results
Following content analysis, data were structured into three themes: (a) understanding of the new reality through the difficulty of returning to one's routine or choosing life, adjusting to social life, and finding new recreational activities; (b) coping with the help of others, avoiding coping, and dealing with the family by open conversations and managing with the rest of the children; and (c) emotional processing of the loss seen through the shock and the sense of having overlooked something, guilt, and relief.
Conclusions
Mothers were found to be on a complex journey to restore routine after an upsetting event. They built a routine for themselves with an awareness of the difficulty of this process as they attempted to return to their routine or to change it.
Implications
Informed and tailored interventions could provide a partial sense of relief for mothers of children who have committed suicide.
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Matthew T. Saxey, Ashley B. LeBaron-Black, Naomi F. Inman, Jeremy B. Yorgason, Erin K. Holmes
Objective
We examined associations among couples' first financial discussion, healthy financial communication, marital satisfaction, and financial disagreements with cross-sectional and longitudinal dyadic data.
Background
Prior research on these associations has only used cross-sectional data from one respondent.
Method
We used actor–partner interdependent structural equation modeling with a sample of 1,079 mixed-gender, newlywed dyads to estimate cross-sectional and longitudinal models.
Results
Cross-sectionally, both husbands' and wives' reports of their first financial discussion predicted better marital satisfaction and fewer financial disagreements through their own report of healthy financial communication. Longitudinally, only husbands' report of the couple's first financial discussion positively predicted between-person changes in both husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction two waves later. Additionally, whereas husbands' healthy financial communication predicted changes in their own marital satisfaction, financial disagreements, and wives' financial disagreements over time, wives' healthy financial communication only predicted changes in their own perception of financial disagreements.
Conclusion
Future relational and financial outcomes for mixed-gender newlyweds appear to benefit from an earlier first financial discussion in their relationship.
Implications
Therapists and educators should focus on the timing and quality of couples' financial communication to help couples mitigate financial disagreements and improve marital satisfaction.
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Antonius D. Skipper, Cassandra D. Chaney, Andrew H. Rose, Richard W. Wiley Jr, Chelsey C. Wooten, Tamecia Myers Curry, Debra Lavender-Bratcher, TJ Moore, Jordan Kennedy
Objective
Using participant responses from 525 different-sex married and cohabiting African American couples, we examined the dyadic association between relational sanctification and relational forgiveness.
Background
Religion has a central role in the lives of many African Americans because it traditionally has been a place of refuge against stressors that disproportionally impact African Americans. However, little is known about how African American couples utilize relational sanctification as a strength.
Method
Data were collected from African American couples between October 2019 and January 2020 as part of a larger study called the Strong African American Couples Project. Utilizing dyadic panels from Qualtrics, this project specifically targeted African American couples who were cohabiting (n = 233) or married (n = 292) thus, enabling us to analyze a multigroup actor–partner interdependence model.
Results
Significant actor effects were found between sanctification and individual as well as perceived partner forgiveness in married and cohabiting couple relationships. No significant partner effects were found.
Conclusion
These findings highlight the importance of recognizing various aspects of religiosity and spirituality within relationships, especially for African American couples with historically high rates of dissolution and self-rated religiosity.
Implications
As interventionalists work with religious and spiritual African American couples, they need to understand the role that sanctity may have within these partner relationships and the positive impact it can have on relational outcomes.
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Bahman Baraie, Mehdi Rezaei, Haidar Nadrian, Hossein Matlabi
Objective
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of religion and law on child marriage in Sanandaj, Iran.
Background
The prevalence of child marriage is 16.65% in Iran and 11% in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj. This study considers the legality and legitimacy of this practice in Iran.
Method
Eligible participants were selected through purposive sampling. Participants included three groups: parents of a married child (n = 7), women who were child brides (n = 19), and experts (sociologists, marriage concluders, and marriage counselors; n = 7). The research question was “What impact do religious and legal factors have on the decision of families in child marriage?” The data were gathered using semistructured in-depth interviews and analyzed by conventional content analysis method.
Results
The findings were generally categorized into four main themes including law–religion issues (subthemes: marriageable age in civil law, Sharia principles), predisposed religious interpretations (subthemes: religious interpretations confirming child marriage, interpretations rejecting child marriage), institutional factors (subthemes: official agencies, religious factors), and religious viewpoint of families toward child marriage (subthemes: avoidance of sin, reference of parents/children to religious rules).
Conclusions
The intersection of law, religion, and family institutions, with their interconnected rules, encourage child marriage (particularly for girls) in Sanandaj, Iran. Any change in these factors (mostly civil law and Sharia) may influence the demands of families for child marriage.
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