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Screening for Balance: The Relationship between Overparenting, Parental Autonomy Control, Low Self Efficacy, and Social Media Addiction Among Emerging Adults
Over the recent years, social media use has become increasingly prevalent among American adults. While the impact of the rise of social media platforms is ubiquitous, researchers revealed that emerging adults (individuals between 18 and...
Romantic love and intimacy are critical for emerging adults to explore self-identity. Relationship efficacy is a cognitive process related to conflict management that plays an important role in romantic relationship development and...
Stress is a prevalent and concerning reality for families, and when stressors are long lasting or severe, they can lead to a crisis. The ABC-X Model of Family Stress proposes that experienced stressors lead to family outcomes of...
Difficulties with anger and aggression have been linked to serious youth outcomes with long-term effects including psychopathology and incarceration. In the United States, although the cost to incarcerate a youth varies by state, the...
Emerging adulthood is a time of great vulnerability for psychological well-being, as during this time, individuals are facing numerous challenges stemming from societal demands in this transitional period. Most notably, emerging adults...
The practical goal of the study was to determine if coparenting is a viable target for interventions to promote well-being among parents of children with ASD and, if so, to isolate the crucial elements of coparenting. To achieve this...
Yearly, millions of children are diagnosed with mental health conditions. However, as the need for age-appropriate interventions and mental health services increases, the amount of available and accessible resources for families has...
Intensive parenting involves parents centering their children's needs, spending most of their free time engaging with them, and following the advice of child experts. Although most studies on intensive parenting have been qualitative, ...
Religion and spirituality are associated with many positive outcomes for partners in committed relationships. Couples with a greater religiosity and spirituality have better relationship quality and greater relationship stability....
In response to the rising public interest in understanding intercultural couples' relational experiences, particularly how couples respond to their differences in culture, I propose a new construct—relational cultural intelligence (RCI)...
Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) have historically had lower return rates for psychotherapy and a higher likelihood to discontinue therapy as compared to non-Hispanic White clients. Given that premature discontinuation of...
Technology has become commonplace in day-to-day activities, permeating our interactions, relationships, and intimacy. While it allows connectedness to those that are physically far, it also consumes our attention distracting us from...
Using communication technologies to threaten, harass, or control one’s romantic partner, or cyber dating abuse, has become a significant health concern among young adults. Previous research has shown that romantic partners use text...
This dissertation studies childhood maltreatment and its implications for mid-life adults’ mental and relational functioning through two distinct manuscripts, each taking a different focus on the topic. The first manuscript considers...
Parenting intervention programs are an increasingly common requirement of case plans for parents involved in the child welfare system as they reduce the risk of future child maltreatment. However, there are challenges with retention and...
Approximately 25% of women and 15% of men have reported being sexually abused in childhood. Although child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention and treatment methods have been widely supported in the literature, many survivors either never...
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