scholarly journals Understanding nonresidential father-child relationship processes during emering [sic] adulthood

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Feistman
Keyword(s):  
Child Relationship ◽  
Nonresidential Father ◽  
Relationship Processes

Stepfather Involvement and Adolescent Well-Being

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1191-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan ◽  
Hayley A. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Maternal Involvement ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Nonresidential Father ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors explore how aspects of stepfather involvement are related to adolescent well-being and whether these relationships depend on maternal involvement, non-residential father involvement, or amount of time in the household. Results indicate that a close, nonconflictual stepfather-stepchild relationship improves adolescent well-being, but it is most beneficial when the adolescent also has a close, nonconflictual mother-child relationship. Engaging in shared activities with the stepfather decreases depression when the stepfather has been in the household for a longer period of time. The relationships between stepfather involvement and adolescent well-being are separate from nonresidential father involvement.

scholarly journals The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Child Maltreatment: Parasympathetic Substrates of Interactive Repair in Maltreating and Nonmaltreating Mother–Child Dyads

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Lunkenheimer ◽  
Alex Busuito ◽  
Kayla M. Brown ◽  
Carlomagno Panlilio ◽  
Elizabeth A. Skowron
Keyword(s):  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Interpersonal Neurobiology ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Relationship Processes ◽  
Parent Child

Children’s repair of conflict with parents may be particularly challenging in maltreating families, and early, stressful parent–child interactions may contribute to children’s altered neurobiological regulatory systems. To explore neurobiological signatures of repair processes, we examined whether mother and child individual and dyadic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) covaried with interactive repair differently in maltreating versus nonmaltreating mother–preschooler dyads ( N = 101), accounting for whether repair was mother or child initiated. Mother-initiated repair was equally frequent and protective across groups, associated with no change in mother or child RSA at higher levels of repair. But lower levels of mother repair were associated with child RSA withdrawal in nonmaltreating dyads versus child RSA augmentation in maltreating dyads. In maltreating dyads only, higher child-initiated repair was associated with higher mean mother RSA, whereas lower child repair was associated with mother RSA withdrawal. Findings suggest that interactive repair may have a buffering effect on neurobiological regulation but also that maltreating mothers and children show atypical neurobiological response to interpersonal challenges including differences related to children conducting the work of interactive repair that maltreating parents are less able to provide. We conclude by considering the role of maladaptive parent–child relationship processes in the biological embedding of early adversity.

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