Stepfather Involvement and Stepfather-Child Relationship Quality: Race and Parental Marital Status as Moderators

Two regression analyses were performed that tested the relationships between the amount of negative sibling interaction and the amount of positive sibling interaction and measures of relationship quality and family form. When measures of husband-wife, mother-child, and father-child relationship quality were controlled, marital status was not significantly related to either measure of sibling interactions. However, when the marital status of the parents (family form) was controlled, both the quality of husband-wife relationship and the quality of mother-child relationship were positively related to positive sibling interaction and negatively related to negative sibling interaction. Regardless of family form, the quality of other relationships in the family were important predictors of sibling interactions.

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Supplemental Material for Dyadic Development in the Family: Stability in Mother–Child Relationship Quality From Infancy to Adolescence

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/fam0000794.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Family Stability ◽

Child Relationship ◽

The Family ◽

Mother Child Relationship

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Parental incarceration affects children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes: A longitudinal cohort study of children aged 9 to 13 years

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025421995918 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 016502542199591

Author(s):

Daragh Bradshaw ◽

Ann-Marie Creaven ◽

Orla T. Muldoon

Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Child Outcomes ◽

Behavioral Outcomes ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

Parental Incarceration ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Children And Parents ◽

The Impact

Parental incarceration (PI) is negatively associated with emotional, educational, and psychological child outcomes. However, few studies explore potential mechanisms through which these outcomes are transmitted or the means by which prosocial outcomes might develop. This study used data from two waves of a population cohort study of children aged 9 years and followed up aged 13 years living in Ireland. Children and parents ( N = 8,568) completed measures of PI, primary caregiver (PCG) depression, PCG-child relationship quality, and child behavioral adjustment. We then conducted a secondary analysis on this national longitudinal study of children in Ireland. Using sequential mediation models, we observed a mediated indirect effect of PI on prosocial outcomes via PCG depression and PCG-child relationship quality. PI at age 9 was associated with increased difficulties and reduced prosocial behavior at age 13. Additionally, PI at age 9 affected PCG depression and the PCG-child relationship quality. Additionally, child prosocial outcomes, and emotional and behavioral difficulties were less apparent where PI had a weaker effect on PCG depression and the quality of PCG-child relationship. Supports that can mitigate the impact of PI for vulnerable caregivers and children are discussed.

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Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Parenting and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors: Transactional Processes Over Time

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801220985125 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122098512

Author(s):

Gerard Chung ◽

Todd M. Jensen ◽

Anna Parisi ◽

Rebecca J. Macy ◽

Paul Lanier

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Low Income ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Externalizing Behaviors ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Low Income Mothers ◽

Transactional Associations

This study used longitudinal data to examine the transactional associations between mothers’ spanking and mother–child relationship quality with children’s externalizing behaviors in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Data came from a sample of 1,152 low-income mothers with children age 10–14 years. Results showed that past-year IPV triggered transactional associations by increasing children’s externalizing behaviors which, in turn, increased spanking and subsequently more externalizing behaviors. Transactional associations were also found for relationship quality. All outcomes used were mothers-reported except relationship quality. Implications for practice include the importance of the mother–child dyad and their reciprocal processes in assessment and treatment.

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Do children's adjustment problems contribute to teacher–child relationship quality? Support for a child-driven model

Early Childhood Research Quarterly ◽

10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.08.003 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 13-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Teresa M. Mejia ◽

Wendy L.G. Hoglund

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Adjustment Problems ◽

Children's Adjustment ◽

Children’S Adjustment ◽

Child Relationship

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Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition

Emerging Adulthood ◽

10.1177/2167696817705954 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 66-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

João F. Guassi Moreira ◽

Eva H. Telzer

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

College Transition ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Risky Behaviors ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

First Semester ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Risk Taking Behaviors ◽

Parent Child

We tested two competing predictions of whether changes in parent–child relationship quality buffer or exacerbate the association between sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviors as individuals gain more independence during the high school–college transition. In the current longitudinal study, 287 participants completed self-report measures of sensation seeking, risk-taking, and parent–child relationship quality with their parents prior to starting college and again during their first semester. Overall, students displayed increases in risky behaviors, which were predicted by sensation seeking. Changes in relationship quality moderated the association between sensation seeking and risk-taking, such that sensation seeking predicted higher risk-taking behaviors during the first semester of college, but only for those who reported increases in relationship quality across the college transition. These results suggest that increased relationship quality may have an inadvertent spillover effect by interacting with sensation seeking to increase risky behaviors.

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Child and Parent Predictors of Perceptions of Parent—Child Relationship Quality

Journal of Attention Disorders ◽

10.1177/1087054706295664 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 37-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Alyson C. Gerdes ◽

Betsy Hoza ◽

L. Eugene Arnold ◽

Stephen P. Hinshaw ◽

Karen C. Wells ◽

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Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Parent Child

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Parent–child relationship quality moderates the link between marital conflict and adolescents’ physiological responses to social evaluative threat.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0037328 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 538-548 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson ◽

Douglas A. Granger

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Marital Conflict ◽

Physiological Responses ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

Social Evaluative Threat ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Parent Child

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Correlates of Parent–Youth Discordance About Youth-Witnessed Violence: A Brief Report

Violence and Victims ◽

10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00053 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 865-874 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Terri Lewis ◽

Richard Thompson ◽

Jonathan B. Kotch ◽

Laura J. Proctor ◽

Alan J. Litrownik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Parental Monitoring ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

Youth Delinquency ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

History Of ◽

High Risk Youth

Studies have consistently demonstrated a lack of agreement between youth and parent reports regarding youth-witnessed violence (YWV). However, little empirical investigation has been conducted on the correlates of disagreement. Concordance between youth and parents about YWV was examined in 766 parent–youth dyads from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN). Results showed that significantly more youth (42%) than parents (15%) reported YWV. Among the dyads in which at least one informant reported YWV (N = 344), we assessed whether youth delinquency, parental monitoring, parent–child relationship quality, history of child maltreatment, income, and parental depression were predictive of parent–youth concordance. Findings indicated that youth engagement in delinquent activities was higher in the groups in which the youth reported violence exposure. More empirical study is needed to assess correlates of agreement in high-risk youth to better inform associations found between exposures and outcomes as well as practice and policy for violence exposed youth.

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