Intergenerational Transmission of Rumination via Parenting Behaviors and Family Characteristics: The Impact on Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms

Parental monitoring is a set of correlated parenting behaviors involving attention to and tracking of the child’s whereabouts, activities, and adaptations. The impact of parental monitoring is ubiquitous and has broad relevance for youth outcomes. Similarly, although less commonly investigated, youth behaviors can impact parents’ or caregivers’ responses or behaviors. Longitudinal analysis was used to assess the gendered effects of youth behaviors—defined as internalized anger, externalized anger, and delinquency—on parent behaviors (i.e., parental monitoring). Results showed that adolescent’s levels of internalized anger, externalized anger, and delinquency were predictive of parental monitoring. Specifically, as the adolescents aged, parental monitoring decreased and parental monitoring was differentiated based on gender. Results and implications for the parent–child relationship are discussed.

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Prevalence of internalizing disorders, symptoms, and traits across age using advanced nonlinear models

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291721001148 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Hanna M. van Loo ◽

Lian Beijers ◽

Martijn Wieling ◽

Trynke R. de Jong ◽

Robert A. Schoevers ◽

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Keyword(s):

Internalizing Symptoms ◽

Nonlinear Models ◽

Generalized Additive Models ◽

Population Sample ◽

Internalizing Disorders ◽

Relative Difference ◽

Additive Models ◽

Point Prevalence ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background Most epidemiological studies show a decrease of internalizing disorders at older ages, but it is unclear how the prevalence exactly changes with age, and whether there are different patterns for internalizing symptoms and traits, and for men and women. This study investigates the impact of age and sex on the point prevalence across different mood and anxiety disorders, internalizing symptoms, and neuroticism. Methods We used cross-sectional data on 146 315 subjects, aged 18–80 years, from the Lifelines Cohort Study, a Dutch general population sample. Between 2012 and 2016, five current internalizing disorders – major depression, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder – were assessed according to DSM-IV criteria. Depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, neuroticism, and negative affect (NA) were also measured. Generalized additive models were used to identify nonlinear patterns across age, and to investigate sex differences. Results The point prevalence of internalizing disorders generally increased between the ages of 18 and 30 years, stabilized between 30 and 50, and decreased after age 50. The patterns of internalizing symptoms and traits were different. NA and neuroticism gradually decreased after age 18. Women reported more internalizing disorders than men, but the relative difference remained stable across age (relative risk ~1.7). Conclusions The point prevalence of internalizing disorders was typically highest between age 30 and 50, but there were differences between the disorders, which could indicate differences in etiology. The relative gap between the sexes remained similar across age, suggesting that changes in sex hormones around the menopause do not significantly influence women's risk of internalizing disorders.

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Testing Invariance of Measures of Internalizing Symptoms Before and After a Major Life Stressor: The Impact of COVID-19 in an Adolescent and Young Adult Sample

Assessment ◽

10.1177/10731911211015315 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107319112110153

Author(s):

Thomas M. Olino ◽

Julia A. C. Case ◽

Mariah T. Hawes ◽

Aline Szenczy ◽

Brady Nelson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Internalizing Symptoms ◽

Adolescent And Young Adult ◽

Measurement Properties ◽

Major Life ◽

Longitudinal Measurement Invariance ◽

Longitudinal Measurement ◽

Before And After ◽

Life Stressor ◽

The Impact ◽

Consistent Support

There are reports of increases in levels of internalizing psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, these studies presume that measurement properties of these constructs remained unchanged from before the pandemic. In this study, we examined longitudinal measurement invariance of assessments of depression, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) in adolescents and young adults from ongoing longitudinal studies. We found consistent support for configural and metric invariance across all constructs, but scalar invariance was unsupported for depression and IU. Thus, it is necessary to interpret pandemic-associated mean-level changes in depression and IU cautiously. In contrast, mean-level comparisons of panic, generalized, and social anxiety symptoms were not compromised. These findings are limited to the specific measures examined and the developmental period of the sample. We acknowledge that there is tremendous distress accompanying disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, for some instruments, comparisons of symptom levels before and during the pandemic may be limited.

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Quality of Life in Flemish Families with a Child with an Intellectual Disability: a Multilevel Study on Opinions of Family Members and the Impact of Family Member and Family Characteristics

Applied Research in Quality of Life ◽

10.1007/s11482-017-9558-z ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 779-802 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lien Vanderkerken ◽

Mieke Heyvaert ◽

Patrick Onghena ◽

Bea Maes

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Intellectual Disability ◽

Family Member ◽

Family Members ◽

Family Characteristics ◽

Multilevel Study ◽

The Impact

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The Project TALENT Twin and Sibling Study

Twin Research and Human Genetics ◽

10.1017/thg.2012.71 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 437-448 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Carol A. Prescott ◽

Deanna Lyter Achorn ◽

Ashley Kaiser ◽

Lindsey Mitchell ◽

John J. McArdle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Genetic Research ◽

Original Data ◽

Family Characteristics ◽

Shared Environment ◽

Occupational Outcomes ◽

School Based ◽

The Family ◽

Specific Factors ◽

The Impact

Project TALENT is a US national longitudinal study of about 377,000 individuals born in 1942–1946, first assessed in 1960. Students in about 1,200 schools participated in a 2-day battery covering aptitudes, abilities, interests, and individual and family characteristics (Flanagan, 1962; www.projectTALENT.org). Follow-up assessments 1, 5, and 11 years later assessed educational and occupational outcomes. The sample includes approximately 92,000 siblings from 40,000 families, including 2,500 twin pairs and 1,200 other siblings of twins. Until recently, almost no behavior genetic research has been conducted with the sample. In the original data collection information was not collected with the intent to link family members. Recently, we developed algorithms using names, addresses, birthdates, and information about family structure to link siblings and identify twins. We are testing several methods to determine zygosity, including use of yearbook photographs. In this paper, we summarize the design and measures in Project TALENT, describe the Twin and Sibling sample, and present our twin-sib-classmate model. In most twin and family designs, the ‘shared environment’ includes factors specific to the family combined with between-family differences associated with macro-level variables such as socioeconomic status. The school-based sampling design used in Project TALENT provides a unique opportunity to partition the shared environment into variation shared by siblings, specific to twins, and associated with school- and community-level factors. The availability of many measured characteristics on the family, schools, and neighborhoods enhances the ability to study the impact of specific factors on behavioral variation.

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The Gaols of Guyana: Hauntology and Trauma in the soundscape of Prison

LIAS Working Paper Series ◽

10.29311/lwps.202143755 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

Author(s):

Tammy Ayres ◽

Dylan Kerrigan

Keyword(s):

Economic System ◽

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Social Action ◽

Structural Violence ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma ◽

The Past ◽

Political Analysis ◽

Transmission Of Trauma ◽

The Impact

Using Hauntology, this paper illustrates how the supposed demise of a socio-political and economic system – colonialism – still impacts on and has something to offer contemporary political analysis in Guyana’s gaols. Drawing on Fiddler’s spatio-hauntology alongside the work of Derrida and Gordon this paper shows how hauntology provides an alternative theoretical framework to look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma, which can be traced back to colonialism and slavery. It acknowledges the impact structural violence has on the collective imaginary and how this – consciously and unconsciously – shapes the psychosocial material underpinning contemporary Guyanese identities, desires, experiences, social action, and systems of punishment which includes prisons – its buildings, space, regimes, processes, sounds, laws and rationale. Guyana’s prisons contain phantoms of the past. Only by acknowledging Guyana’s ghosts and the phantasm of past trauma is it that we can begin to understand contemporary Guyana and Guyanese society, which includes their jails.

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The Impact of Migration Controls on Urban Fiscal Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in China

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3687920 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Holger Sieg ◽

Chamna Yoon ◽

Jipeng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Intergenerational Transmission ◽

Fiscal Policies ◽

The Impact

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Positive Parenting Behaviors: Impact on the Early Vocabulary of Infants/Toddlers With Cochlear Implants

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2020_jslhr-20-00401 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 64 (4) ◽

pp. 1210-1221

Author(s):

Edith L. Bavin ◽

Julia Sarant ◽

Luke Prendergast ◽

Peter Busby ◽

Greg Leigh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cochlear Implants ◽

Repeated Measures ◽

Maternal Education ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

Vocabulary Development ◽

Parenting Behaviors ◽

Information Criterion ◽

Positive Parenting ◽

The Impact ◽

Parent Child

Purpose To extend our knowledge about factors influencing early vocabulary development for infants with cochlear implants (CIs), we investigated the impact of positive parenting behaviors (PPBs) from the Indicator of Parent Child Interaction, used in parent–child interactions during everyday activities. Method Implantation age for the sample recruited from CI clinics in Australia ranged from 6 to 10 months for 22 children and from 11 to 21 months for 11 children. Three observation sessions at three monthly intervals were coded for use of PPBs. Children's productive vocabulary, based on the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories parent checklist, was collected approximately 6 and 9 months later. A repeated-measures negative binomial generalized linear mixed-effects model was used to investigate associations between the total PPBs per session, covariates (maternal education, gender, and time since implant), and the number of words produced. In follow-up analyses with the PPBs entered separately, variable selection was used to retain only those deemed informative, based on the Akaike information criterion. Results As early as Session 1, associations between the PPBs and vocabulary were identified. Time since implant had a positive effect. For different sessions, specific PPBs (descriptive language, follows child's lead, and acceptance and warmth) were identified as important contributors. Conclusions Complementing previous findings, valuable information was identified about parenting behaviors that are likely to impact positively the early vocabulary of infants with CIs. Of importance is providing parents with information and training in skills that have the potential to help create optimal contexts for promoting their child's early vocabulary development.

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