Cai, Qiyue Chan, Athena C Y Lee, Sun-Kyung Marsalis, Scott Gewirtz, Abigail H
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Clinical child and family psychology review
GenerationPMTO is a theory- and evidence-based behavioral parenting program widely implemented in the past three decades. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the effectiveness of twenty GenerationPMTO studies on parenting and child adjustment among 3893 families in six countries. Hedges' g from studies with pretest-posttest-controlled...
Ostrov, Jamie M Murray-Close, Dianna Perry, Kristin J Perhamus, Gretchen R Memba, Gabriela V Rice, Danielle R Nowalis, Sarah
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Journal of child and family studies
A critical area of developmental science explores factors that confer risk or protection as young children and their families experience stressful circumstances related to sociohistorical events. This study contributes to this important area by assessing relations between family context and child adjustment as children transitioned from preschool t...
Power, Thomas G Garcia, Karina Silva Martinez, AnaMaria Diaz Parker, Louise A Hidalgo-Mendez, Jackelyn Ramos, Guadalupe
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Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
"Madres Apoyando el Desarrollo Emocional de Sus Hijos" ("Mothers Supporting the Emotional Development of Their Children") is a parenting education program designed to help Latina mothers help their school-age children cope with stress. A previous randomized controlled trial, with a pre-post design, showed that the program had the predicted effects ...
Lam, Chun Bun Lam, Chung Sze Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa
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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
In the face of COVID-19, many schools have to educate their students using online activities. During this time, whether and how parents are involved may be of particular importance for young children—who are less able to learn independently via the Internet due to their developmental immaturity. Therefore, this study examined the cross-sectional as...
Thompson, Stephanie F Shimomaeda, Lisa Calhoun, Rebecca Moini, Natasha Smith, Michele R Lengua, Liliana J
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Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
Parents living in low-income contexts shouldered disproportionate hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic with consequences to maternal mental health and child adjustment. The current study uses a sample of first-time mothers (N = 147) of young toddlers, all living in low-income contexts, to examine the roles of pre-pandemic and COVID-19-specific ri...
Jadva, Vasanti Lysons, Joanna Imrie, Susan Golombok, Susan
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Reproductive biomedicine online
Is parental age associated with parents' psychological health, couple relationship satisfaction and child adjustment in egg donation families, and how do parents think and feel about their age in relation to parenting? Seventy-two families with a child born after IVF egg donation were included. Mothers were aged between 32 and 51 years and fathers ...
Liu, Yang Dittman, Cassandra K. Guo, Mingchun Morawska, Alina Haslam, Divna
Although Chinese cultural beliefs highlight the significant role of fathers in educating and disciplining their children, little empirical research has explored the role of Chinese fathers more broadly on child adjustment. This study used survey methodology to examine the effect of father involvement, fathering practices, and father-child relations...
Golombok, Susan
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Reproductive biomedicine online
Our understanding of what makes a family has changed dramatically in recent decades due to advances in reproductive technologies accompanied by changing social attitudes. But what has the impact been on children? This article presents a summary of research on parent-child relationships and the psychological adjustment of children in families create...
van Dijk, Rianne van der Valk, Inge E Deković, Maja Branje, Susan
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Clinical psychology review
Every year, parental divorce becomes the reality of many families. The aim of this meta-analysis was to identify post-divorce family processes to explain child functioning. Both direct and indirect associations between interparental conflict, parenting, and child adjustment were examined. After a systematic search for articles published before Octo...
Zahlis, Ellen H Shands, Mary Ellen Lewis, Frances Marcus
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Palliative & supportive care
The objective of this study was to describe in the words of child-rearing parents with incurable cancer, what they had gained or thought about as a result of participating in a five-session, scripted, telephone-delivered psycho-educational parenting intervention, the Enhancing Connections Program in Palliative Care. A total of 26 parents completed ...
