Predictors of Emotional Security in Survivors of Interpersonal Violence

Jobe‐Shields, Lisa; Williams, Joah L.; Hardt, Madeleine M.

doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0799-0

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“…The Disengagement subscale (7 items; e.g., “When I’m upset, there’s no one in my family who can make me feel better”) indexes the person’s efforts to disengage from and minimize the significance of the family. SIFS subscales have demonstrated strong psychometric properties in previous studies (Forman & Davies, 2005; Jobe-Shields et al, 2017). In this sample, Cronbach’s αs were .82 for preoccupation, .84 for security, and .78 for disengagement.…”

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“…Participants completed the Security in the Family System (SIFS) Scale (Forman & Davies, 2005). Originally designed to index children’s emotional security about their family, the SIFS has been extended to adolescent (Cummings et al, 2015) and young adult (Jobe-Shields et al, 2017) samples. The 22-item self-report scale was designed to capture the individual’s perceptions of their family as a source of security, safety, and protection.…”

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“…We focused on male partners because they engage in elevated consequential drinking compared to their female partners (Holway et al, 2017). Furthermore, existing research on family emotional security in young adulthood has concentrated on females (Cantón-Cortés et al, 2016; Jobe-Shields et al, 2017), limiting knowledge of the family environment as a context for the distinct risk-taking behaviors of males during this important developmental period. We tested the potential moderating factor of childhood exposure to substance abuse, given robust prior work on this childhood experience as a predictor or moderator of later outcomes (e.g., Chassin et al, 2002).…”

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“…More recently, research designed to test the emotional security theory has been extended to include young adults. In one cross-sectional study of 126 undergraduate students with a history of interpersonal violence, all three dimensions of emotional security (i.e., preoccupation, disengagement, and security) were found to be differentially associated with retrospective reports of interparental conflict and parental invalidation of emotions in childhood and adolescence (Jobe-Shields et al, 2017). In another cross-sectional study, Cantón-Cortés et al (2016) surveyed 167 female college freshmen who had experienced some type of sexual abuse before age 18.…”

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Family Emotional Security and Problem Drinking Among Young Adult Males in Romantic Relationships

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Papp

2020

The Family Journal

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The current study evaluated the unique associations between three dimensions of emotional security in the family system (security, disengagement, and preoccupation) and problem drinking among romantically partnered males aged 18–30 years. The sample consisted of 49 males who were recruited with their partners as part of a broader study on substance behaviors. It was hypothesized that security in the family system (i.e., secure appraisals) would be negatively related to problematic drinking, whereas insecure appraisals (i.e., preoccupation and disengagement) would be positively related to problematic drinking. It was also hypothesized that living with a substance abuser during childhood would moderate family security–problem drinking associations. Regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. Disengagement from the family system uniquely predicted higher levels of problematic drinking, accounting for participant age and partner drinking levels. Moderating results showed that the link between disengagement and drinking behaviors was significantly stronger among males who had lived in childhood with someone who abused substances compared to those who did not. The findings encourage consideration of family and romantic relationship contexts as future research and intervention targets for understanding problematic drinking behaviors in young adulthood.

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Family Emotional Security and Problem Drinking Among Young Adult Males in Romantic Relationships

Barringer

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2020

The Family Journal

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“…As discussed before, perceived stress may be deemed a risk factor (Dean & Lawrence, 1983;Gomes, Faria, & Lopes, 2016) for developing a sense of insecurity (Kong, 2010) while ecological resource factors may buffer or weaken the adverse impact of risk factors (Li, 2012). Thus, it may be inferred that family cohesion, as a protective factor (Coe et al, 2017;Jobe-Shields et al, 2017), may buffer against the risk of perceive stress and also increase sense of security. Specifically, college students who believe their family cohesion to be strong may be report a weaker relation between perceived stress and sense of security, and vice versa.…”

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Perceived stress and insomnia under the period of COVID-19: The mediating role of sense of security and the moderating role of family cohesion

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Although perceived stress has been shown to play an important role in insomnia, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relation. In particular, the outbreak of COVID-19 has undoubtedly had a significant impact on the physical and mental health of college students. The present study focused on Chinese college students during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined the mediating role of sense of security between perceived stress and insomnia and the moderating role of family cohesion. Chinese college students (N = 1,187) completed the measures of perceived stress, sense of security, insomnia, and family cohesion. The results indicated that perceived stress was significantly and positively associated with insomnia, and sense of security partially mediated this relation. Moderated mediation analysis further indicated that family cohesion moderated the relation between perceived stress and sense of security. This relation became weaker for college students with higher levels of family cohesion. Results highlight the significance of identifying the mechanisms that moderate the mediate paths between perceived stress and college students’ insomnia.

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