Capturing the Complexity of Families Using Innovative Methods

Lippold, Melissa A.; McNamee, Catherine B.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01562-0_16

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“…Finally, our study used only four occasions to measure lability and focused on year-to-year changes in parents’ global reports of warmth and hostility over the past month. Future studies are needed that use ecological momentary assessments to understand changes in parenting at different time scales (i.e., month to month, moment to moment) and their implications for youth (Lippold & McNamee, 2014; Ram et al, 2011).…”

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Youth Internalizing Problems and Changes in Parent–Child Relationships Across Early Adolescence: Lability and Developmental Trends

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Hussong

Fosco

et al. 2020

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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Few longitudinal studies examine how changes in parent–child relationships are associated with changes in youth internalizing problems. In this longitudinal study, we investigated how developmental trends (linear change) and year-to-year lability (within-person fluctuations) in parental warmth and hostility across Grades 6 to 8 predict youth internalizing problems in Grade 9 ( N = 618) and whether these linkages differ for boys and girls. Developmental trends (greater decreases in warmth and increases in hostility) were associated with more youth internalizing problems. Greater year-to-year lability (more fluctuations) in father hostility and warmth were also associated with more internalizing problems. Greater lability in mother warmth was associated with more internalizing problems for girls only. The strongest effects of lability on internalizing problems were found for youth with the highest lability scores. This study underscores the importance of differentiating developmental trends from lability in parent–child relationships, both of which may be important for youth internalizing problems.

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Youth Internalizing Problems and Changes in Parent–Child Relationships Across Early Adolescence: Lability and Developmental Trends

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Hussong

Fosco

et al. 2020

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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“…These findings support those reported in other studies that have found linkages between lability in parenting and delinquency for girls but not boys (Lippold et al, 2015; Lippold, Fosco et al, 2016). Because girls are more oriented to relationships than boys, girls might be more likely to find fluctuations in their parents’ behavior to be stressful, especially fluctuations in hostility (Hankin & Abramson, 2001; Lippold et al, 2014), with stronger implications for their adjustment. It is possible that girls are more likely to assume adult caretaker roles when parents are undergoing stress, especially their fathers (Leaper, 2002)—and henceforth at high levels of lability in hostility, girls may be more likely to engage in behaviors that help restore relationship equilibrium.…”

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“…However, it is likely that a transactional process exists between lability and youth risky behavior that was not fully captured in this study (Sameroff, 2009). As changes were only assessed on a yearly basis, studies that use ecological momentary assessments which capture parenting on shorter time scales may be needed to fully capture lability and understand its effects on youth adjustment (Lippold & McNamee, 2014).…”

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Lability in the parent’s hostility and warmth toward their adolescent: Linkages to youth delinquency and substance use.

Lippold

Hussong

Fosco

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychology

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According to family systems and life course theories, periods of intense change, such as early adolescence, can disrupt stable family systems, leading to changes in family relationships. In this longitudinal study, we investigate 2 types of change in parental hostility and warmth toward their children during early adolescence (Grades 6 to 8)-developmental trends (linear declines) and lability (within-person fluctuations around developmental trends)-and their linkages to youth substance use and delinquency in Grade 9 (N = 618). We also test if the linkages between lability and youth risky behavior are moderated by youth gender. After controlling for between-person differences in level and developmental trends, we find greater lability (more fluctuations) in youth-reported parents' warmth and hostility are associated with greater youth delinquency, tobacco use, and polysubstance use initiation. The associations between youth-reported lability in mother and father hostility and polysubstance use demonstrated an inverted U shape pattern: Moderate levels of lability were associated with higher substance use but very low and high lability was associated with relatively lower rates of substance use. Many of the linkages between lability and youth delinquency were significant for girls but not boys. Fewer effects of lability on youth outcomes were found using parent reports. Developmental trends in parents' warmth and hostility were also associated with youth delinquency. Lability has unique implications for youth adjustment, yet appears to differ by youth outcome, gender, and reporter. The discussion focuses on mechanisms that might link changes in parent-youth warmth and hostility to youth risky behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Parental knowledge has been shown to mediate the relations between both parents’ family management strategies and youth disclosure with youth outcomes (Lippold et al, 2014; Vieno et al, 2010), and knowledge has been linked to youth outcomes regardless of how parents obtain it (Lippold et al, 2014), making it a key parenting construct. Many prevention programs target parental knowledge through improving family management strategies and parent-child communication (Greenberg & Lippold, 2013; Lippold & McNamee, 2014). …”

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Knowledge Lability: Within-Person Changes in Parental Knowledge and Their Associations with Adolescent Problem Behavior

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Higher levels of parental knowledge about youth activities has been associated with lower levels of youth risky behavior. Yet little is known about how parental knowledge fluctuates during early adolescence and how those fluctuations are associated with the development of problem behavior. We use the term lability to describe within-person fluctuations in knowledge over time with higher lability indicating greater fluctuations in knowledge from year-to-year. This longitudinal study of rural adolescents (N = 840) investigated if change in parental knowledge across four waves of data from Grades 6 to 8 is characterized by lability, and if greater lability is associated with higher youth substance use, delinquency, and internalizing problems in Grade 9. Our models indicated that only some of the variance in parental knowledge was accounted for by developmental trends. The remaining residual variance reflects within-person fluctuations around these trends, lability, plus measurement and occasion-specific error. Even controlling for level and developmental trends in knowledge, higher knowledge lability (i.e., more fluctuation) was associated with increased risk for later alcohol and tobacco use, and for girls, higher delinquency and internalizing problems. Our findings suggest that lability in parental knowledge has unique implications for adolescent outcomes. The discussion focuses on mechanisms that may link knowledge lability to substance use. Interventions may be most effective if they teach parents to consistently and predictably decrease knowledge across early adolescence.

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Capturing the Complexity of Families Using Innovative Methods

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Youth Internalizing Problems and Changes in Parent–Child Relationships Across Early Adolescence: Lability and Developmental Trends

Youth Internalizing Problems and Changes in Parent–Child Relationships Across Early Adolescence: Lability and Developmental Trends

Lability in the parent’s hostility and warmth toward their adolescent: Linkages to youth delinquency and substance use.

Knowledge Lability: Within-Person Changes in Parental Knowledge and Their Associations with Adolescent Problem Behavior

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