The Family Check‐Up

Gill, Anne; Dishion, Thomas J.; Shaw, Daniel S.

doi:10.1002/9781118539415.wbwell017

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“…Thus, targeting family processes, particularly parent responsiveness, may bolster intervention effect sizes. Existing family-centered prevention programs for risky behaviors during adolescence (e.g., Family Check-Up) foster parent responsiveness, but program evaluations have yet to include weight concerns (Gill, Dishion, & Shaw, 2014). Thus, there are opportunities to develop family-centered eating disorder prevention programs and assess the impact of existing family-centered programs on weight concerns.…”

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Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence.

Hochgraf¹,

McHale²,

Fosco³

2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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Weight concerns are common among adolescents and are associated with a range of negative psychological and physical health outcomes. Self-esteem is one correlate of weight concerns, yet prospective research has not yet documented the direction of this association over the course of adolescence or whether this association differs by gender. This study sought to clarify the role of self-esteem in the development of adolescents' weight concerns and investigate the potentially protective role of father and mother responsiveness, another documented correlate of weight concerns. Participants were 392 predominately Caucasian/European American adolescents, ages 11-18, and their parents. Time-lagged mixed-effects models revealed bidirectional associations between self-esteem and weight concerns at the within-individual level over the course of adolescence. Results also confirmed the moderating roles of youth gender and father responsiveness in the prospective link between self-esteem and weight concerns such that father responsiveness buffered the effects of low self-esteem on weight concerns for girls but not boys. Only gender moderated the prospective link between weight concerns and self-esteem: On occasions when youth reported higher self-esteem than usual (compared to their own cross-time average), they reported fewer weight concerns the next year, but this effect was slightly larger for boys. Findings suggest that self-esteem and weight concerns are reciprocally related in adolescence and highlight the importance of examining interactions between family processes and individual characteristics to predict adolescent psychological adjustment. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence.

Hochgraf¹,

McHale²,

Fosco³

2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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Parenting and the Family Check-Up: Changes in Observed Parent-Child Interaction Following Early Childhood Intervention

Sitnick

Shaw

Gill

et al. 2014

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Coercion theory posits a cyclical relationship between harsh and coercive parent–child interactions and problem behavior beginning in early childhood. As coercive interactions have been theorized and found to facilitate the development and growth of early conduct problems, early interventions often target parenting to prevent or reduce early disruptive problem behavior. This study utilizes direct observations of parent–child interactions from the Early Steps Multisite study (N = 731; 369 boys) to examine the effect of the Family Check-Up, a family-centered intervention program, on measures of parent–child positive engagement and coercion from age 2 through 5, as well as on childhood problem behavior at age 5. Results indicate that high levels of parent–child positive engagement were associated with less parent–child coercion the following year, but dyadic coercion was unrelated to future levels of positive engagement. In addition, families assigned to the Family Check-Up showed increased levels of positive engagement at ages 3 and 5, and the association between positive engagement at age 3 and child problem behavior at age 5 was mediated by reductions in parent–child coercion at age 4. These findings provide longitudinal confirmation that increasing positive engagement in parent–child interaction can reduce the likelihood of coercive family dynamics in early childhood and growth in problem behavior.

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The Family Check‐Up

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Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence.

Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence.

Parenting and the Family Check-Up: Changes in Observed Parent-Child Interaction Following Early Childhood Intervention

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