Short‐Term Resilience Processes in the Family

Bai, Sunhye; Repetti, Rena L.

doi:10.1111/fare.12101

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“…However, having a supportive family has been shown to be particularly important for children trying to cope with stressful experiences [e.g. 8]. Lastly, supportive environments outside the family such as availability of social support, school connectedness, having good neighbours and positive role models have been identified as potential protective factors [e.g.…”

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The student resilience survey: psychometric validation and associations with mental health

Lereya

Humphrey

Patalay

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Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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BackgroundPolicies, designed to promote resilience, and research, to understand the determinants and correlates of resilience, require reliable and valid measures to ensure data quality. The student resilience survey (SRS) covers a range of external supports and internal characteristics which can potentially be viewed as protective factors and can be crucial in exploring the mechanisms between protective factors and risk factors, and to design intervention and prevention strategies. This study examines the validity of the SRS.Methods7663 children (aged 11–15 years) from 12 local areas across England completed the SRS, and questionnaires regarding mental and physical health. Psychometric properties of 10 subscales of the SRS (family connection, school connection, community connection, participation in home and school life, participation in community life, peer support, self-esteem, empathy, problem solving, and goals and aspirations) were investigated by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), differential item functioning (DIF), differential test functioning (DTF), Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s ω. The associations between the SRS scales, mental and physical health outcomes were examined.ResultsThe results supported the construct validity of the 10 factors of the scale and provided evidence for acceptable reliability of all the subscales. Our DIF analysis indicated differences between boys and girls, between primary and secondary school children, between children with or without special educational needs (SEN) and between children with or without English as an additional language (EAL) in terms of how they answered the peer support subscale of the SRS. Analyses did not indicate any DIF based on free school meals (FSM) eligibility. All subscales, except the peer support subscale, showed small DTF whereas the peer support subscale showed moderate DTF. Correlations showed that all the student resilience subscales were negatively associated with mental health difficulties, global subjective distress and impact on health. Random effects linear regression models showed that family connection, self-esteem, problem solving and peer support were negatively associated with all the mental health outcomes.ConclusionsThe findings suggest that the SRS is a valid measure assessing these relevant protective factors, thereby serving as a valuable tool in resilience and mental health research.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13034-016-0132-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The student resilience survey: psychometric validation and associations with mental health

Lereya

Humphrey

Patalay

et al. 2016

Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health

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“…ILM can be used to monitor treatment success by assessing constructs of targeted change throughout implementation (Bai & Repetti, 2015; Chorpita et al, 2010; Trull & Ebner-Priemer, 2009). Throughout a program, practitioners can use participants’ frequent reports to improve the likelihood of treatment success (Trull & Ebner-Priemer, 2013).…”

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“…Family interactions occur in micro timescales and accumulate over time, becoming of great importance to child outcomes (Bai & Repetti, 2015). Thus, directly assessing these interactions in real time as they are experienced by parents and child may yield new insights into development (Bai & Repetti, 2015; Laurenceau & Bolger, 2005; Smyth & Heron, 2014). …”

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The Application of Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Investigate Change: Stimulating the Field of Applied Family Research

Bamberger

2015

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The use of intensive longitudinal methods (ILM)—rapid in situ assessment at micro timescales—can be overlaid on RCTs and other study designs in applied family research. Especially when done as part of a multiple timescale design—in bursts over macro timescales, ILM can advance the study of the mechanisms and effects of family interventions and processes of family change. ILM confers measurement benefits in accurately assessing momentary and variable experiences and captures fine-grained dynamic pictures of time-ordered processes. Thus, ILM allows opportunities to investigate new research questions about intervention effects on within-subject (i.e., within-person, within-family) variability (i.e., dynamic constructs) and about the time-ordered change process that interventions induce in families and family members beginning with the first intervention session. This paper discusses the need and rationale for applying ILM to intervention evaluation, new research questions that can be addressed with ILM, example research using ILM in the related fields of basic family research and the evaluation of individual-based (rather than family-based) interventions. Finally, the paper touches on practical challenges and considerations associated with ILM and points readers to resources for the application of ILM.

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“…Family conflict promotes children's emotional dysregulation (Davies and Cummings, 1994), risky health behaviors, and dysregulation of stress-responsive biological systems. On the other hand, family warmth and affection may have protective effects, including effective emotion regulation, adopting health-promoting behaviors (Repetti et al, 2002), and developing adaptive biological responses to stress (Bai and Repetti, 2015). In this paper, we examine associations between daily family environments and a marker of cellular aging, leukocyte telomere length (LTL), which may also explain links between family functioning and health.…”

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“…Higher positive mood reactivity to family warmth and involvement may indicate the building of inter- and intrapersonal resources (Bai and Repetti, 2015), while low positive mood reactivity may indicate social withdrawal (Rubin et al, 2009). Unfortunately, positive mood reactivity has received little attention in terms of biobehavioral pathways related to health.…”

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Emotions and family interactions in childhood: Associations with leukocyte telomere length

Robles

Carroll

Bai

et al. 2016

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Conceptualizations of links between stress and cellular aging in childhood suggest that accumulating stress predicts shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL). At the same time, several models suggest that emotional reactivity to stressors may play a key role in predicting cellular aging. Using intensive repeated measures, we tested whether exposure or emotional “reactivity” to conflict and warmth in the family were related to LTL. Children (N=39; 30 target children and 9 siblings) between 8 and 13 years of age completed daily diary questionnaires for 56 consecutive days assessing daily warmth and conflict in the marital and the parent-child dyad, and daily positive and negative mood. To assess exposure to conflict and warmth, diary scale scores were averaged over the 56 days. Mood “reactivity” was operationalized by using multilevel modeling to generate estimates of the slope of warmth or conflict scores (marital and parent-child, separately) predicting same-day mood for each individual child. After diary collection, a blood sample was collected to determine LTL. Among children aged 8-13 years, a stronger association between negative mood and marital conflict, suggesting greater negative mood reactivity to marital conflict, was related to shorter LTL (B = -1.51, p < .01). A stronger association between positive mood and marital affection, suggesting positive mood reactivity, was related to longer LTL (B = 1.15, p < .05). These effects were independent of exposure to family and marital conflict and warmth, and positive and negative mood over a two-month period. To our knowledge, these findings, although cross-sectional, represent the first evidence showing that links between children's affective responses and daily family interactions may have implications for telomere length.

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Short‐Term Resilience Processes in the Family

Cited by 44 publications

References 69 publications

The student resilience survey: psychometric validation and associations with mental health

The student resilience survey: psychometric validation and associations with mental health

The Application of Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Investigate Change: Stimulating the Field of Applied Family Research

Emotions and family interactions in childhood: Associations with leukocyte telomere length

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