Dyadic Coping, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior in Four Countries

Skinner, Ann T.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Chang, Lei; Oburu, Paul; Tapanya, Sombat

doi:10.1177/0192513x21993851

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“…The parent–child relationship and coparenting relationship during a pandemic may be quite different from relationships during ordinary times owing to familial stress, and concurrent parenting may be especially salient for internalizing and externalizing problems during these stressful times. Additionally, recent cross-national research shows that how parents jointly cope with stress is a predictor of both mother–child relationship quality and an indirect predictor of adolescent externalizing behavior over a two-year period (Skinner et al, 2021). This dyadic coping could account for some of the variance in changes in well-being during the pandemic.…”

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Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.

Skinner¹,

Godwin²,

Alampay³

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychology

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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented families around the world with extraordinary challenges related to physical and mental health, economic security, social support, and education. The current study capitalizes on a longitudinal, cross-national study of parenting, adolescent development, and young adult competence to document the association between personal disruption during the pandemic and reported changes in internalizing and externalizing behavior in young adults and their mothers since the pandemic began. It further investigates whether family functioning during adolescence 3 years earlier moderates this association. Data from 484 families in five countries (Italy, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) reveal that higher levels of reported disruption during the pandemic are related to reported increases in internalizing and externalizing behaviors after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic for young adults (M age = 20) and their mothers in all five countries, with the exception of one association in Thailand. Associations between disruption during the pandemic and young adults' and their mothers' reported increases in internalizing and externalizing behaviors were attenuated by higher levels of youth disclosure, more supportive parenting, and lower levels of destructive adolescentparent conflict prior to the pandemic. This work has implications for fostering parent-child relationships Editor's Note. Loes Keijers served as the action editor for this article.-EFD

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Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.

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Alampay³

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychology

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“…In a study by Zemp, Milek, et al (2017), DC was associated with fewer coparenting conflicts, a variable that is associated with child dysfunction (Teubert & Pinquart, 2010). Furthermore, in a longitudinal study by Skinner et al (2021) DC moderated the association between maternal warmth and child externalizing behavior, based on reports from mothers and fathers.…”

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“…Couples may jointly cope by listening to each other with empathy (positive DC) or may support their partner half-heartedly or even criticize them (negative DC). The concept of DC, well established in couple research (Falconier & Kuhn, 2019; Falconier et al, 2015), has recently gained increased attention in the context of child development (e.g., Skinner et al, 2021; Zemp et al, 2016; Zemp, Milek, et al, 2017), and quality of life of chronically ill children (Nap-van der Vlist et al, 2021).…”

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“…A large body of literature found that parental negativity is associated with more child mental health problems (Cummings & Davies, 2010;Giallo et al, 2021), but the role of positive interparental interactions (i.e., dyadic coping [DC]) in promoting child well-being has been investigated more recently (Job et al, 2019;Skinner et al, 2021;Zemp et al, 2016Zemp et al, , 2018. DC is defined in the systemic-transactional model of stress (Bodenmann, 1995b(Bodenmann, , 1997(Bodenmann, , 2005 as the interpersonal process through which couples jointly cope with stress.…”

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Dyadic coping trajectories across the transition to parenthood: Associations with child mental health problems.

Stadelmann¹,

Senn²,

Forster³

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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How parents cope with stress as a couple (i.e., dyadic coping [DC]) is related to mental health problems in children. But little is known about DC within first-time parents and child mental health problems in early childhood. This study investigated subgroups in DC trajectories across the transition to parenthood (TTP) and examined subgroup differences in child mental health problems. Mothers' and fathers' self-report of positive and negative DC (n = 288 couples) at seven points of measurement (27th, 32nd week of pregnancy, 2nd, 14th, 40th week postpartum, 3-and 4-year postpartum) and children's emotional and behavioral problems from parent report (4-year postpartum) were used. Latent class growth analyses revealed that over half of the couples experienced a moderate decline in positive DC across the TTP (58%), whereas only fathers reported a decline among the remaining couples (42%). Fathers with a partner who maintained their level of positive DC reported more child emotional and behavioral problems than fathers whose partners' DC also decreased. Results for negative DC indicated two subgroups in which one partner maintained their initial level of negative DC (stable fathers: 10%, stable mothers: 23%), while the other increased. In most couples, both parents increased their negative DC (67%). Fathers reported more child emotional and behavioral problems if their negative DC increased across the TTP than if their negative DC remained stable regardless of the negative DC of their partner. The existence of different DC trajectory patterns needs to be considered in further research as well as prevention.

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“…Meta-analyses based on reviews of research from many different countries often include China but do not present results separately for China (Pinquart, 2021;Ribera et al, 2019). The same is true of a major longitudinal study of externalising (aggressive and delinquent) behaviour in nine countries, including Shanghai in China (Lansford et al, 2018(Lansford et al, , 2020Rothenberg et al, 2020;Skinner et al, 2022). These studies provide valuable information about the replicability of predictors and correlates of externalising behaviour, but they do not provide specific information about delinquency in China.…”

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Self-reported antisocial behaviour of 10-year-old boys in Zhuhai (China) versus Pittsburgh (USA)

Farrington,

Liu

2023

JCP

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare self-reported antisocial (SRA) behaviour of 10-year-old boys in China (in Zhuhai) and the USA (in Pittsburgh). Design/methodology/approach In Pittsburgh, 868 boys were given a SRA behaviour questionnaire in 1987–1988. In Zhuhai, 1,154 boys were given the same questionnaire in 2017. Findings The prevalence of 23 acts in the two countries was significantly correlated (r = 0.69), showing that the acts that were admitted by most boys in one country also tended to be admitted by most boys in the other country. Also, the mean prevalence in the two countries was very similar, at about 13%. However, several acts (e.g. stealing) were more prevalent in Zhuhai, while violent acts were more prevalent in Pittsburgh. The frequencies of the acts in the two countries were also significantly correlated (r = 0.51), although frequency was usually greater in Pittsburgh. Research limitations/implications While most theories and research in criminology and psychology are based on Western industrialised countries, it is important to carry out more cross-cultural comparisons of antisocial behaviour in other countries. These results show encouraging generalizability and replicability, despite differences in time and place. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study presents the first comparison of age-matched Chinese and American children on the prevalence and frequency of specific antisocial acts.

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Dyadic Coping, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior in Four Countries

Cited by 10 publications

References 192 publications

Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.

Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries.

Dyadic coping trajectories across the transition to parenthood: Associations with child mental health problems.

Self-reported antisocial behaviour of 10-year-old boys in Zhuhai (China) versus Pittsburgh (USA)

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