This study explored the relationship between perceived stress and parental burnout in mothers of children aged 4 to 6 years, with a focus on the roles of coparenting and mindful parenting.
Background
Coparenting and mindful parenting are two strategies that may buffer the impact of stress, yet their specific roles in mitigating parental burnout are not fully understood.
Method
A cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted involving 834 mothers in Türkiye (mean age = 35.2 years, SD = 3.9 years) who had children aged 4 to 6 years. Participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale, Parental Burnout Assessment, Coparenting Scale, and Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire.
Results
Findings showed a significant negative relationship between perceived stress levels and parental burnout. Perceived stress directly related to parental burnout and had indirect effects through coparenting (10.26%) and mindful parenting (10.99%), which together explained more than 20% of the total association observed in the model, indicating that these parenting processes may statistically mediate, but not causally determine, the link between perceived stress and parental burnout.
Conclusion
Coparenting and mindful parenting may be associated with a reduction in the relationship between stress and parental burnout.
Implications
Enhancing coparenting and mindful parenting strategies in family support programs could help alleviate stress and improve parental well-being.
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Kelly Blaus, Megan L. Haselschwerdt, Alison C. Cares
Objective
This study explored how motherhood, intimate partner violence (IPV), and COVID-19 interacted in the early weeks of the pandemic.
Background
IPV often increased during the pandemic. Yet although most women who experience IPV are mothers and mothers faced unique pandemic-related stressors, little is known about how mothers who experienced IPV weathered the early days of the pandemic.
Method
This study used thematic analysis of survey responses from 55 U.S. mothers who had experienced IPV. Data were organized by COVID's impact (positive, negative, no impact) on interactions with abusive partners, well-being, and feelings of safety.
Results
COVID had a mixed impact on mothers' lives. More than half experienced some negative impact, such as coparenting challenges or worsening verbal and emotional abuse; many reported no impact, often among those no longer in contact with abusive partners; and some experienced a positive impact, like feeling safer because of reduced interactions with abusive partners.
Conclusion
The pandemic's impact was complex and multilayered. Although some partners adapted their abuse tactics to exploit pandemic circumstances, mothers remained resilient, working strategically to preserve their families.
Implications
Findings can be used to support mothers in future pandemics, natural disasters, wars, and similar environmental conflicts.
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The objective of this study was to examine how household chaos is associated with parents' positive and negative parenting behaviors through the mediating roles of emotional distress and diminished self-control capacity.
Background
Recent societal changes have increased household chaos, potentially impacting family functioning. Although research has documented chaos's effects on children, less is known about its impact on parents through emotional and cognitive pathways.
Method
The study analyzed two waves of longitudinal data from 696 parents (88% mothers) of adolescents in North Carolina. Using structural equation modeling, researchers tested mediation models examining how household chaos influenced positive parenting and inconsistent discipline through parents' emotional states and self-control capacity.
Results
The results showed that self-control mediated the effects of household chaos on both positive parenting and inconsistent discipline. Negative emotions (depression, anxiety, stress) only mediated the relationship between chaos and inconsistent discipline, not positive parenting. The strongest indirect effect was in the pathway through self-control to positive parenting.
Conclusion
Household chaos primarily affected parenting by diminishing parents' self-control capacity, whereas negative emotions mainly influenced inconsistent discipline rather than positive parenting behaviors.
Implications
Interventions should focus on supporting parents' self-control capacity and emotional regulation to improve parenting practices, particularly in maintaining consistent discipline.
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This study explored risk and protective factors at individual and family levels for understanding maladjustment in sons and daughters of incarcerated fathers.
Background
Family researchers have emphasized fathers' contribution to their children's adaptation. Yet, little research has examined whether paternal absence due to imprisonment poses unique risks for sons' and daughters' adjustment difficulties beyond those experienced by other high-adversity families.
Method
Participants were 82 child–mother dyads including children ages 9–12 years (M = 9.66 years, SD = 1.33; 43 boys = 52%), divided into two groups: 41 with and 41 without incarcerated fathers. The study measured protective factors (secure attachment with fathers/mothers), risk (maternal depression), and maladjustment (children's depression and four aggression subscales).
Results
Significant group differences emerged on all study variables. Sex differences during paternal imprisonment showed girls' greater vulnerability to depression and boys' higher aggressive behavior. Regression analyses demonstrated significant risk posed by maternal depression, alongside protection offered by attachment with fathers and mothers, in explaining incarcerated fathers' children's maladjustment.
Conclusion
Children of incarcerated fathers showed lower protective factors (attachment with parents) and higher risk factors (maternal depression) than children from underprivileged families without incarcerated fathers, demonstrating gender-specific maladjustment features.
Implications
Protective and risk factors hold possibly distinct and complementary roles, suggesting educational or family interventions focused on improving parent–child interactions and parenting practices for children with incarcerated fathers.
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This study aimed to explore and describe Black young adults’ perceptions of psychological services regarding biological father absence in a South African context.
Background
It is evident from numerous studies both internationally and in South Africa that father absence—full or partial—may have negative effects on the overall well-being of young adults. There has not been any research done on young adults’ perceptions of psychological services in dealing with their father's absence.
Method
A qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research design was implemented within a sample of eight Black young adults (aged 18–40 years) who experienced father absence during a crucial developmental period. Data were collected using a demographic information form and semistructured individual interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis.
Results
The researchers found different types of father absence experienced, the role of father absence in well-being, perceptions regarding psychological services, and suggestions regarding psychological services.
Conclusion
The study highlights Black young adults’ perceptions regarding different types of father absence they have experienced, the role of father absence in their well-being, and psychological services.
Implications
The findings suggest that psychological services can play a valuable role in mitigating the negative effects of father absence while also providing suggestions regarding psychological services.
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Judit Végh, Bogdan Voicu, Margarida Martins Barroso, Alexandra Deliu, Tali Heiman, Iulia-Elena Hossu, Sviatlana Karpava, Armela Maxhelaku, Dorit Olenik-Shemesh, Magdalena Ślusarczyk, Martina Wilsch, Anna Wojtyńska, Brunilda Zenelaga
Objective
The article reviews literature on the implications and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on transnational families (TNFs), gathering up-to-date evidence of how the pandemic changed the dynamics of TNFs in different life dimensions, how these families have coped with adversity, and how the academic debate is recognizing the complexity of transnationality in situations of crisis.
Background
Transnational families consist of members who live in multiple countries while maintaining a sense of familyhood (Bryceson & Vuorela, 2002). The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges for TNFs as crisis responses prioritize national borders and institutions.
Method
A scoping review was conducted using Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) framework, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for Scoping Reviews (Tricco et al., 2018), and Peters et al.'s (2015) guidance for systematic reviews. Of the 113 references identified, 29 met the scoping review's inclusion criteria.
Results
The effects of the pandemic on TNFs were particularly noticeable in terms of uncertainty, psychological health, communication, social networks, care, and time use.
Conclusion
Mobility restrictions and concerns about disease spread were significantly challenging. Although TNFs were able to adapt rapidly by using technology and innovative solutions to maintain their relationships, social inequalities were also exposed by the pandemic.
Implications
Robust support systems are needed for TNFs, both at their point of origin and destination, to assist them in managing challenging circumstances that disrupt their daily routines and interactions. Future research could further explore and develop these support systems to better address these challenges.
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To address the gap in evidence-based resources for improving children's sibling relationships, this study examined the differential effectiveness of an established program for families seeking prevention versus intervention services.
Background
The More Fun With Sisters and Brothers Program has been shown in multiple randomized control studies to strengthen sibling relationships and child and parent emotion regulation. However, similar to other programs, little is known about its effectiveness for helping families improve versus maintain sibling relationship quality. With distinct goals, these two groups may require disparate resources that target different interpersonal processes.
Method
Based on a holistic assessment, 86 mothers of two children aged 4 to 8 years were classified as either seeking prevention (n = 38) or intervention (n = 48) services. The two groups' reports of program implementation, sibling relationship quality, child and maternal emotion regulation, and coparenting were compared across the four-lesson online program.
Results
Repeated measures analysis of covariance revealed that, after participation, the intervention-seeking group perceived greater gains in sibling warmth and reduced agonism and rivalry along with better maternal emotional regulation than the prevention-seeking group, who reported stable levels of these processes. Both groups reported gains in collaborative coparenting and older child emotion regulation.
Conclusion
Results highlight the program's utility for promoting sibling relationship quality and maternal emotional regulation for intervention-seeking families while also helping prevention-seeking families maintain satisfactory levels of these processes.
Implications
A “one size fits all” approach should give way to more personalized methods for providing siblings with the specific competencies they need to establish or maintain rewarding relationships.
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This study aimed to explore the prospective associations among filial piety, intergenerational contact and support for grandparents, and ageism in Chinese adult grandchildren.
Background
Growing evidence shows the negative impacts of ageism, and filial piety may help reduce such age-related prejudice. However, few longitudinal studies have explored this phenomenon among Chinese adult grandchildren, and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Method
A 3-year longitudinal study (each wave at a year) was conducted with 301 participants (Mage = 22.74 years; SD = 7.07, 54.20% males).
Results
The main results are as follows: (a) youth reciprocal filial piety at T1 was negatively correlated with ageism at T2, and reciprocal filial piety at T2 was negatively correlated with ageism at T3. However, authoritarian filial piety showed no significant association with ageism, nor was there evidence of reciprocal effects of ageism on either type of filial piety; (b) the contact and support for grandparents at T2 mediated the association between T1 reciprocal filial piety and T3 ageism; and (c) a reciprocally negative association between ageism and the contact and support for grandparents at T2 and T3 was found.
Conclusion
This study reveals that adult grandchildren with more reciprocal filial piety are more likely to contact and support their grandparents, which in turn contributes to less ageism.
Implications
These findings have implications for establishing a positive aging society and implementing systematic social governance to reduce age-related prejudice. In particular, reciprocal filial piety should be highlighted in modern Chinese culture because it may foster stronger family bonds and a society that values and respects older adults.
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We examined the directionality among child routines, noncompliance, parental stress, and harshness using a cross-lagged model.
Background
Child routines foster development and are associated with lower noncompliance and parenting stress, correlating with less harsh discipline. Transactional parent–child interactions imply bidirectional associations warranting thorough analysis.
Method
The study used data from Years 3 and 5 of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,353; 48% female). Child routines, noncompliance, parenting stress, and harsh parenting were reported by mothers.
Results
Child routines at 3 years old predicted a decrease in noncompliance at 5 years old (β = −.04, p < .001), but not the reverse (β = −.01, p = .54). Noncompliance at 3 years old predicted parenting stress at 5 years old (β = .05, p = .007), and parenting stress at 3 years old predicted harsh parenting at 5 years old (β = .07, p < .001). Parenting stress (β = −.06, p < .001) and harsh parenting (β = −.05, p < .05) at 3 years old predicted fewer routines at 5 years old, but routines did not predict stress or harsh parenting.
Conclusion
Promoting child routines at a young age may be associated with improved compliance behaviors in children. Reduced compliance issues may lower parenting stress, which can decrease the use of harsh parenting practices.
Implications
The findings suggest that interventions promoting child routines could foster positive behavior and reduce parenting stress, ultimately contributing to healthier parent–child relationships and better developmental outcomes for preschoolers.
目的采用交叉滞后模型研究儿童日常行为、不服从、父母压力和严厉之间的方向性。儿童惯例促进发展，与较低的不服从和养育压力有关，与较轻的严厉纪律有关。事务性亲子交互意味着双向关联，需要进行彻底的分析。方法采用家庭未来与儿童健康研究3、5年的数据（N = 2353，女性占48%）。母亲们报告了孩子的常规、不服从、父母的压力和严厉的父母。结果3岁时的儿童常规预测5岁时不遵医嘱的减少(β = -。04、p <；001)，但不是相反(β =−。01, p = .54)。3岁时的不服从预测5岁时的父母压力（β = 0.05, p = 0.007）， 3岁时的父母压力预测5岁时的父母严厉（β = 0.07, p < 0.001）。育儿压力(β =−。6、p <；001)和严厉的父母教育(β = -。05, p <；05) 3岁的孩子在5岁时的日常生活较少，但日常生活并不意味着压力或严厉的父母。结论在幼儿时期促进儿童日常活动可能与儿童依从性行为的改善有关。减少依从性问题可能会降低养育压力，这可以减少使用严厉的养育方法。研究结果表明，促进儿童常规的干预可以培养积极的行为，减少父母的压力，最终有助于健康的亲子关系和学龄前儿童更好的发展结果。
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This study explored the caregiver burden of adults caring for aging parents during wartime, its relationship to war-related stress, and the roles of filial piety and resilience as potential protective factors.
Background
Family members face significant psychological stress during wartime. Although filial piety and resilience have been found to alleviate caregiver burden, their effects in emergencies are underexplored.
Methods
Participants were 398 Israelis aged 40 and older caring for aging parents after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Participants completed a structured online questionnaire and analysis was conducted using a moderated mediation model.
Results
Findings indicated that filial piety partially mediated the relationship between war-related stress and caregiver burden. Although resilience did not moderate direct relationships between war-related stress and caregiver burden, or between war-related stress and filial piety, it did moderate the relationship between filial piety and caregiver burden.
Conclusion
This study highlights the complex interplay between war-related stress, resilience, filial piety, and caregiver burden, indicating that resilience alone is insufficient to alleviate caregiver burden during wartime.
Implications
The study enhances understanding of caregiving dynamics in crisis situations and underscores the need for more comprehensive interventions to support adult-child caregivers during emergencies.
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