Family instability as a unique risk factor for children's adjustment problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jesse L. Coe ◽  
Stephanie H. Parade
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 545-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana J. Lengua ◽  
Stephanie F. Thompson ◽  
Lyndsey R. Moran ◽  
Maureen Zalewski ◽  
Erika J. Ruberry ◽  
...  

AbstractAdditive and bidirectional effects of executive control and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis regulation on children's adjustment were examined, along with the effects of low income and cumulative risk on executive control and the HPA axis. The study utilized longitudinal data from a community sample of preschool age children (N = 306, 36–39 months at Time 1) whose families were recruited to overrepresent low-income contexts. We tested the effects of low income and cumulative risk on levels and growth of executive control and HPA axis regulation (diurnal cortisol level), the bidirectional effects of executive control and the HPA axis on each other, and their additive effects on children's adjustment problems, social competence and academic readiness. Low income predicted lower Time 4 executive control, and cumulative risk predicted lower Time 4 diurnal cortisol level. There was little evidence of bidirectional effects of executive control and diurnal cortisol. However, both executive control and diurnal cortisol predicted Time 4 adjustment, suggesting additive effects. There were indirect effects of income on all three adjustment outcomes through executive control, and of cumulative risk on adjustment problems and social competence through diurnal cortisol. The results provide evidence that executive control and diurnal cortisol additively predict children's adjustment and partially account for the effects of income and cumulative risk on adjustment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Vitaro ◽  
Mara Brendgen ◽  
Michel Boivin ◽  
Stéphane Cantin ◽  
Ginette Dionne ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Hungerford ◽  
Richard L. Ogle ◽  
Caroline M. Clements

The current study examined the extent to which seventy-five 5- to 13-year-old children and their mothers agreed about whether children had been exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) and the association between parent–child agreement and children’s psychological adjustment. One type of disagreement (i.e., parents failed to report IPV exposure that children reported) was associated with children’s perceptions of less positive family relationships. Parents of these children, however, reported fewer child adjustment problems than did parents who agreed with their children about children’s IPV exposure. The findings suggest the importance of obtaining children’s reports of their own exposure to IPV in addition to parental reports. Moreover, parent–child concordance with respect to children’s IPV exposure may be an important variable to examine in understanding variations in children’s adjustment.


Author(s):  
Jan M. Nicholson ◽  
Matthew R. Sanders ◽  
W. Kim Halford ◽  
Maddy Phillips ◽  
Sarah W. Whitton

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