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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...
Objectives: The Latinx population is one of the fastest growing minority groups in the United States, with a current population of around 60 million people, they make up roughly 18% of the US population. The current study examined the...
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...
Over the past few decades, media and technology use have become increasingly significant components of everyday life. Given media's ubiquitous usage across the lifespan, it is important to understand what puts individuals at risk for...
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, ...
The Latinx college population is at risk for developing anxiety symptoms due to stressors related to minority contexts. This study examined the role of familism among Latinx college students and how it relates to generational status and...
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....
Heteronormativity – the implicit moral assumption that heterosexuality is the preferred or natural sexual orientation – is evident in extant family science literature and presents challenges for researchers and clinicians. The presence...
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)...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with co-occurring internalizing problems or externalizing behaviors and parents mental and physical health. Furthermore, ...
Self-compassion can be understood as cultivating a gentle and understanding relationship with the self. The benefits of self-compassion for romantic relationships have been well-established in the literature. Additionally, the benefits...
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...
Breaking Barriers, Building Resilience: Unraveling the Link between Autism Severity, Parent Stress and Access to Care in Families of Children with Autism
This study explored the relationship between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) severity, parental stress, barriers to care, and family resilience among 210 parents of children with ASD. Using path analysis, the study investigated how ASD...
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...
The purpose of this study is to answer the call for studies on the well-being of parents with adolescents and to gain further understanding of its influential mechanisms in family systems. Guided by family systems theory (Minuchin, 1974)...
The projected increase in the population of older adults (ages 65 and older) brings with it concerns about unavoidable loss through age-related chronic illnesses like dementia, cancer, or arthritis (Jaul & Barron, 2017). Successful aging...
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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