Childhood homelessness, resilience, and adolescent mental health: A prospective, person‐centered approach

Herbers, Janette E.; Cutuli, J. J.; Keane, Joanna N.; Leonard, Jake A.

doi:10.1002/pits.22331

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“…Nonetheless, many children experiencing homelessness function well despite adversity, motivating a search for protective and promotive factors associated with resilience. Although research indicates that high‐quality parenting and effective self‐regulation are associated with better social, emotional, and academic outcomes among children and youth experiencing homelessness (e.g., Herbers et al., 2020; Masten et al., 2015), little research has focused on the specific role of ER and parental emotion socialization in this high‐risk population.…”

Section: Emotion Socialization In the Context Of Poverty‐related Riskmentioning

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Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness

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Parenting shapes the development of emotion regulation skills in early childhood, laying a key foundation for socialemotional adjustment. Unfortunately, high adversity exposure may disrupt parental emotion socialization practices and children's regulatory development. The current study used variable-and person-centered approaches to evaluate links among parental emotion expressiveness, children's observed emotion regulation, and teacher-reported adjustment among 214 4-to 6-year-old children experiencing homelessness, an indicator of high cumulative risk and acute adversity. Structured parent-child interaction tasks were recorded on site in emergency shelters over the summer and micro-socially coded for parent and child expressions of anger, positive affect, and internalizing distress. We anticipated that parental modeling of predominantly negative emotion expression would be associated with more child dysregulation during parent-child interaction and worse adjustment at school, as reported by teachers the following school year. Preliminary analyses indicated that children's observed difficulty downregulating anger was associated robustly with teacher-reported social-behavioral problems.

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Section: Emotion Socialization In the Context Of Poverty‐related Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness

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“…Infants who experience family homelessness are at elevated risk for health problems, developmental delays, and social–emotional difficulties compared to nonhomeless peers (Cutts et al, 2018; Fanning, 2021; Haskett et al, 2015). Considering the larger evidence base showing poor outcomes among older children experiencing family homeless (Bassuk et al, 2020; Haskett & Armstrong, 2019; Herbers, Cutuli, Keane, & Leonard, 2020), along with the fact that infancy is a particularly sensitive period of developmental neuroplasticity (Shonkoff & Garner, 2012), there is a clear need for more and better information about risk and resilience factors for infants experiencing homelessness. The present study aimed to consider social support and adverse experiences as predictors of family functioning—in terms of both caregiver depression symptoms and responsiveness in parent–infant relationships.…”

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Social support as a resilience factor for parent–infant dyads experiencing homelessness.

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Tabachnick²,

Hayes³

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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Despite the considerable prevalence of homelessness among very young children in the United States, there is a notable lack of research on risk, resilience, and developmental well-being of infants who experience family homelessness. In the present study, we considered social support as a resilience factor for quality of parent-infant relationships and parent depression among a sample of 106 parents and their infants (ages birth to 12 months) residing in emergency shelters for families experiencing homelessness. We assessed social support, parent histories of adverse experiences during childhood and adulthood, and parent current depression symptoms via structured interview measures, and we assessed quality of the parent-infant relationship with an observational approach. Results showed different patterns for the roles of adversity the parents had experienced during childhood compared to adversity experienced more recently, as adults. Childhood adversity predicted parent-infant responsiveness, with a positive association that was moderated by level of perceived social support. Parents with more childhood adversity showed more responsiveness with their infants only when they had access to high levels of social support. Adulthood adversity predicted higher scores for parent depression, while social support predicted lower parent depression scores. This work contributes to the very limited literature on the functioning of families with infants in shelters. Our discussion includes implications for research, policy, and prevention and intervention efforts.

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“…Other researchers have focused on combining research methods from a qualitative approach (Patterson et al, 2012), mainly interpreting reality based on people’s experiences of homelessness from a person-centred approach (Herbers et al, 2019). With this methodological perspective, the topics examined in recent years have focused on health (Pendyal et al, 2021), economic inequality, poverty, and a whole trajectory of negative events that ended up making these individuals homeless.…”

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Overcoming Limitations for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic via the Communicative Methodology: The Case of Homelessness During the Spanish Home Confinement

Racionero-Plaza

Vidu

Díez-Palomar

et al. 2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Research on homelessness is a field of study in social sciences with a long and solid history. Several pieces of research have let us understand the life experiences and trajectories of these individuals, the challenges that they have faced, and the interventions conducted with them to address this inequality. Nonetheless, the research methodologies in those studies prove short in a situation such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. If we, researchers, are to prioritize social impact, we cannot wait for the pandemic to be overcome to employ those methodologies to investigate homelessness. If so doing, we would meet the needs of homeless people too late. Because social impact is at the forefront, if those methodological resources are not sufficient, then it is necessary to introduce additional ones. This article presents how to address this challenge via the employment of the communicative methodology of research, with the example of a qualitative investigation on how homeless people were attended during the lockdown in Spain in March 2020. The researchers could not meet these individuals on the streets by that time, yet their experiences during the lockdown and how they were being transformed were examined via on-line interviews with individuals voluntarily serving homeless people during home confinement. This methodological innovation in qualitative research is at the service of social impact and can be helpful to researchers investigating vulnerable groups in difficult times.

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Childhood homelessness, resilience, and adolescent mental health: A prospective, person‐centered approach

Cited by 16 publications

References 51 publications

Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness

Parental affect profiles predict child emotion regulation and classroom adjustment in families experiencing homelessness

Social support as a resilience factor for parent–infant dyads experiencing homelessness.

Overcoming Limitations for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic via the Communicative Methodology: The Case of Homelessness During the Spanish Home Confinement

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