scholarly journals Maternal prenatal mood problems and lower maternal emotional availability associated with lower quality of child's emotional availability and higher negative affect during still‐face procedure

Infancy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riikka Korja ◽  
Catherine McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Still Face Procedure

scholarly journals Short-term test–retest reliability and continuity of emotional availability in parent–child dyads

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-277
Author(s):  
Joyce J. Endendijk ◽  
Marleen G. Groeneveld ◽  
Maja Deković ◽  
Carlijn van den Boomen
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Child Involvement ◽  
Parenting Dimensions ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Parent Child

The emotional availability scales (EAS), 4th edition, are widely used in research and clinical practice to assess the quality of parent–child interaction. This study examined the short-term reliability and continuity of the EAS (4th ed.) assessed in two similar observational contexts over a one-week interval. Sixty-two Dutch parents (85% mothers) and their 9- to 12-month-old infants ( Mage = 10.07 months, SD = 0.47, 53% boys) were videotaped twice while they interacted with each other during several tasks (free play, structured play, book reading, toys taken away). The videotapes were coded with the EAS 4th edition by two reliable coders. Moderate to strong test–retest reliability was found for the three EA parent-dimensions: sensitivity, structuring, and nonintrusiveness. Child involvement was not reliable over a one-week period, and child responsiveness could only be reliably assessed in boys. Test–retest reliability of structuring was also higher for boys than for girls. Regarding continuity, mean levels of sensitivity, structuring, nonintrusiveness, and involvement did not change over a one-week interval, but responsiveness increased for girls only. Thus, the parenting dimensions of the 4th edition of the EAS reflect stable and consistent characteristics of the parent–child dyad on the short term, but the child measures do not.

scholarly journals Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Atiqah Azhari ◽  
Ariel Wan Ting Wong ◽  
Mengyu Lim ◽  
Jan Paolo Macapinlac Balagtas ◽  
Giulio Gabrieli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Dyadic Interaction ◽  
Child Play ◽  
The Past ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Play Interactions ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Mother’S Age

Healthy dyadic interactions serve as a foundation for child development and are typically characterised by mutual emotional availability of both the parent and child. However, several parental factors might undermine optimal parent–child interactions, including the parent’s current parenting stress levels and the parent’s past bonding experiences with his/her own parents. To date, no study has investigated the possible interaction of parenting stress and parental bonding history with their own parents on the quality of emotional availability during play interactions. In this study, 29 father–child dyads (18 boys, 11 girls; father’s age = 38.07 years, child’s age = 42.21 months) and 36 mother–child dyads (21 boys, 15 girls; mother’s age = 34.75 years, child’s age = 41.72 months) from different families were recruited to participate in a 10-min play session after reporting on their current parenting stress and past care and overprotection experience with their parents. We measured the emotional availability of mother–child and father–child play across four adult subscales (i.e., sensitivity, structuring, non-intrusiveness, non-hostility) and two child subscales (i.e., involvement and responsiveness). Regression slope analyses showed that parenting stress stemming from having a difficult child predicts adult non-hostility, and is moderated by the parents’ previously experienced maternal overprotection. When parenting stress is low, higher maternal overprotection experienced by the parent in the past would predict greater non-hostility during play. This finding suggests that parents’ present stress levels and past bonding experiences with their parents interact to influence the quality of dyadic interaction with their child.

Measuring the quality of life in mild to very severe dementia: Testing the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the German version of the QUALIDEM

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 825-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nikolaus Dichter ◽  
Christian G. G. Schwab ◽  
Gabriele Meyer ◽  
Sabine Bartholomeyczik ◽  
Olga Dortmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
Severe Dementia ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Single Measure ◽  
Care Relationship

ABSTRACTBackground:Quality of life (Qol) is an increasingly used outcome measure in dementia research. The QUALIDEM is a dementia-specific and proxy-rated Qol instrument. We aimed to determine the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability in residents with dementia in German nursing homes.Methods:The QUALIDEM consists of nine subscales that were applied to a sample of 108 people with mild to severe dementia and six consecutive subscales that were applied to a sample of 53 people with very severe dementia. The proxy raters were 49 registered nurses and nursing assistants. Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability scores were calculated on the subscale and item level.Results:None of the QUALIDEM subscales showed strong inter-rater reliability based on the single-measure Intra-Class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for absolute agreement ≥ 0.70. Based on the average-measure ICC for four raters, eight subscales for people with mild to severe dementia (care relationship, positive affect, negative affect, restless tense behavior, social relations, social isolation, feeling at home and having something to do) and five subscales for very severe dementia (care relationship, negative affect, restless tense behavior, social relations and social isolation) yielded a strong inter-rater agreement (ICC: 0.72–0.86). All of the QUALIDEM subscales, regardless of dementia severity, showed strong intra-rater agreement. The ICC values ranged between 0.70 and 0.79 for people with mild to severe dementia and between 0.75 and 0.87 for people with very severe dementia.Conclusions:This study demonstrated insufficient inter-rater reliability and sufficient intra-rater reliability for all subscales of both versions of the German QUALIDEM. The degree of inter-rater reliability can be improved by collaborative Qol rating by more than one nurse. The development of a measurement manual with accurate item definitions and a standardized education program for proxy raters is recommended.

scholarly journals Negative Affect, Type D Personality, Quality of Life, and Dysfunctional Outcomes of Total Knee Arthroplasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Vogel ◽  
Christian Riediger ◽  
Martin Krippl ◽  
Jörg Frommer ◽  
Christoph Lohmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Total Knee Arthroplasty ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Knee Arthroplasty ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Fear Avoidance ◽  
Type D ◽  
Total Knee

Background. Type D personality (TDP) is a sign of tapered stress and compromises treatment outcomes including those of hip arthroplasty. The common dissatisfaction with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is predicted by fear avoidance, pain catastrophizing and emotional lability, with poor quality of life (QoL) reflecting these strains. This study is the first to investigate the influence of TDP on TKA assuming (1) negative affect (NA) to be linked to fear avoidance and to increased dissatisfaction with TKA and (2) the expression of NA and social inhibition (SI) to not be stable over time. Method. We studied 79 participants using the brief symptom inventory-18, the pain-catastrophizing scale, the Tampa scale of kinesiophobia, the SF-36, and the WOMAC preoperatively and 12 months postoperatively. T-test and regression were used to compare the variables of interest between groups built based upon outcome severity. Result. NA at follow-up predicted knee pain (p=0.02) and knee function (p<0.01) at follow-up. Contrarily, increased expressions of NA/SI at follow-up were predicted by NA (p=0.04) and rumination (p=0.05) at the baseline. Conclusion. The present results suggest the postoperative increase of NA to be linked to dysfunctional outcomes of TKA due to an interaction with pain catastrophizing. Baseline self-rated physical health did not connect to the dissatisfaction with TKA 1-year postoperatively.

scholarly journals Negative affective reaction to partner’s dominant behavior influences satisfaction with romantic relationship

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1324-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gentiana Sadikaj ◽  
D. S. Moskowitz ◽  
David C. Zuroff
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Affective Reaction ◽  
Cohabiting Couples

Dominant behavior has been related to lower quality romantic relationships. The present study examined two processes through which dominant behavior affects the quality of romantic relationships: (1) the extent to which the partner’s dominance increases the person’s negative affect by thwarting the person’s sense of autonomy and (2) the degree to which the person’s negative affect in reaction to the partner’s dominant behavior affects relationship satisfaction. Using an event-contingent recording (ECR) methodology, 92 cohabiting couples reported their dominant behavior, negative affect, and autonomy in interactions with each other during 20 days. Relationship satisfaction was measured at the end of the ECR period. The results indicated that when a partner engages in dominant behavior, the person experiences greater negative affect in part due to a sense of thwarted autonomy and that greater negative affective reaction in association with the partner’s dominant behavior is related to lower relationship satisfaction in the person.

Emotional availability: Research advances and theoretical questions

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Disorganized Attachment ◽  
Emotional Quality ◽  
Coding Systems ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Attachment Research ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe commentary opens by highlighting the contribution of the Emotional Availability Scales (EAS) in providing developmental researchers with a clinically sensitive and reliable assessment of the emotional quality of caregiver–child interactions that takes into consideration their coregulated nature. The numerous studies that have used the EAS attest to their usefulness and to the way they balance complexity and attention to emotional nuances with clarity. Several issues with regard to the EAS are discussed subsequently. First, I propose that looking at patterns of the EA scales might be a way to capture the quality of each dyad's emotional dialogue. Second, I suggest that the description of attachment research as concerned almost exclusively with the regulation of distress is inaccurate, in light of Ainsworth's broad assessment of naturalistic home observations. Third, I raise the possibility that additional specialized coding systems beyond the EAS may be needed for predicting certain specific psychopathological outcomes (e.g., disorganized attachment). Fourth, I propose that it is important to explore cross-culturally the meaning of the behaviors on which the EAS focus, rather than assume cross-cultural equivalence. Fifth and finally, I point out the importance of placing the EAS in the context of the existing literature on early intervention and treatment.

Arthritis and perceptions of quality of life: An examination of positive and negative affect in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Zautra ◽  
Mary H. Burleson ◽  
Craig A. Smith ◽  
Susan J. Blalock ◽  
Kenneth A. Wallston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect

scholarly journals Spillover Effects When Taking Turns in Dyadic Coping: How Lingering Negative Affect and Perceived Partner Responsiveness Shape Subsequent Support Provision

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Sarah Pauw ◽  
Suzanne Hoogeveen ◽  
Christina Jessica Breitenstein ◽  
Fabienne Meier ◽  
Valentina Rauch-Anderegg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Dyadic Coping ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Support Provider ◽  
Perceived Partner Responsiveness ◽  
Partner Responsiveness

When experiencing personal distress, people usually expect their romantic partner to be supportive. However, when put in a situation to provide support, people may at times (still) be struggling with issues of their own. This interdependent nature of dyadic coping interactions as well as potential spillover effects are mirrored in the state-of-the-art research method to behaviorally assess couple’s dyadic coping processes. This paradigm typically includes two video-taped eight-minute dyadic coping conversations in which partners swap roles as sharer and support provider. Little is known about how such dyadic coping interactions may feed back into one another, impacting the motivation and ability to be a responsive support provider. In three behavioral studies, we examined how sharers’ experiences may spill over to affect their own support provision in a subsequent dyadic coping interaction. We hypothesized that the extent to which sharers perceive their partner as responsive to their self-disclosure increases the quality of their own subsequent support provision (Hypothesis 1), whereas sharers’ lingering negative affect reduces the quality of their subsequent support provision (Hypothesis 2). In line with our first hypothesis, perceived partner responsiveness predicted the provision of higher-quality support, though primarily as perceived by the partner. Sharers who perceived their partner to have been more responsive were somewhat more likely to subsequently engage in positive dyadic coping, and were rated as more responsive by their partners. Negative dyadic coping behavior was unaffected. Evidence for our second hypothesis was mixed. While lingering negative affect did not affect positive dyadic coping behavior or perceived support, it did increase the chances of negative dyadic coping behavior. However, given the very low occurrences of negative affect and negative dyadic coping, these findings should be interpreted with caution. Taken together, these findings suggest that support interactions may feed back into one another, highlighting the complex and interdependent nature of dyadic coping. The strongest and most consistent findings concerned the spillover effect of perceived partner responsiveness on subsequent perceived support quality, speaking to the key role of believing that one’s partner is responsive to one’s needs in promoting healthy relationship functioning.

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