Parental Perceived Control and Social Support: Linkages to Change in Parenting Behaviors During Early Adolescence

Lippold, Melissa A.; Glatz, Terese; Fosco, Gregory M.; Feinberg, Mark E.

doi:10.1111/famp.12283

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“…Another study indicated that for mothers who experience that they have low control over their lives, social support (i.e. having someone to turn to for support and guidance) was important, as it resulted in better (warmer) parent-child relationships (Lippold, Glatz, Fosco, & Feinberg, 2017). These studies, in addition to this study and the literature on lone mothers, point to the importance of social support for parents, not least lone parents.…”

Section: Loneliness and Exclusionsupporting

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Friendship, reciprocity and similarity: lone mothers and their relationships with friends

Alsarve

2019

Community, Work & Family

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Studies have demonstrated the importance of informal social relationships in lone mothers' everyday lives, not least regarding their ability to reconcile paid work and care duties. This paper examines lone mothers' relationships with their friends. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Swedish lone mothers, it aims to analyse how friendship relations are described by the lone mothers, to what extent they are characterized by different forms of reciprocity and if the mothers perceive their friends as being part of their families. Inspired by Alberoni's thoughts on friendship, and Finch and Mason's view of reciprocity, the analysis reveals a complex picture of friendship relations. It is argued that friends often play a significant role in the everyday lives of the lone mothers. Friends were seen as key elements in some mothers' lives, and sometimes were defined as 'family', providing emotional as well as practical support; but they were almost entirely absent in the lives of others. The support from their friends was often surrounded by norms of reciprocity. The results indicate that although the help from friends sometimes was decisive and appreciated, the mothers found it difficult to ask friends for help. RESUMEN

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Section: Loneliness and Exclusionsupporting

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Friendship, reciprocity and similarity: lone mothers and their relationships with friends

Alsarve

2019

Community, Work & Family

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“…On the contrary, parents who exercise undue control have a damaging effect on emerging adults’ psychological adjustment, generating more anxiety and depression (Nelson et al., ). This suggests that, unlike during adolescence, during which behavioral control is necessary and rules and limits have been proven to be beneficial (Lippold, Glatz, Fosco, & Feinberg, ), during emerging adulthood it is important for the home environment to stimulate maturity and autonomy, with lower levels of direct control. Indeed, even when emerging adults continue to live in the family home and maintain good family relations (Moreno, ), continuing parental control has a negative effect since it goes against their legitimate need for autonomy.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Parents in Emerging Adults’ Psychological Well‐Being: A Person‐Oriented Approach

2018

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The purpose of this study was to gain an overview of Spanish emerging adults' family relationships and their link with psychological well-being and psychological distress. The sample comprised 1502 undergraduate students (903 women and 599 men) aged between 18 and 29 (M = 20.32 and SD = 2.13), recruited from two universities in Spain. A cluster analysis identified three groups of families based on the centrality of five family variables: parental involvement, parental support for autonomy, parental warmth, behavioral control, and psychological control. The three groups or clusters were labeled high-quality family relationships (HQ), intermediate-quality family relationships (IQ), and low-quality family relationships (LQ). Women were overrepresented in the HQ cluster, whereas men were overrepresented in the IQ cluster. Moreover, emerging adults who perceived better family relationships (high levels of parental involvement, parental support for autonomy and parental warmth, and low levels of behavioral and psychological control) were found to have a higher level of psychological adjustment. Thus, our results indicate that family plays a key role in the psychological well-being of emerging adults. The discussion focuses on the implications of this finding for the parent-child relationship, and explores how it extends our knowledge about family relationships during emerging adulthood.

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“…Although we did not assess parent social support in our study, recent research shows that parents who reported more social support had more warmth and less hostility towards their children (Lippold et al, 2018). Although the text messages parents received in the study remained static with three text messages each week, parents could choose when they wanted to receive the messages.…”

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Feasibility of text messaging to promote child health in a rural community on an American Indian reservation

Brown

Harris

Dybdal

et al. 2019

Health Education Journal

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Objective:This study investigated the feasibility of delivering health-related short text messages to parents with the goal of reducing obesity risk among their children aged 3–5 years.Design:Quasi-experimental design involving one experimental group of 17 parents.Setting:Rural American Indian reservation.Methods:During the 5-week intervention period, parents received 3 topic-related text messages each week for a total of 15 messages. The topics focused on included nutrition, physical activity (PA), sleep, consumption of sugary beverages, TV viewing and screen time. Outcomes included assessments of feasibility including retention rates; delivery, receipt and response to text messages; and programme satisfaction. Pre- to posttest changes in parent knowledge of health behaviours associated with childhood obesity and parent report of these health behaviours in their child were also assessed.Results:A total of 100% (17/17) of the participants completed the study and final assessments. All texts ( n = 289) sent to participants were successfully delivered. Of the 85 texts that requested a response, parents responded to 91% (78/85) by answering the question. All participants reported they found the texts easy to understand. A total of 94% (16/17) of participants reported enjoying the frequency with which they received messages. At the end of the study, parents reported improved overall child health behaviours that approached statistical significance ( p = .051) and parents reported significantly improved behaviours related to PA and sleep ( p = .046). No significant differences were found for changes in parent knowledge.Conclusion:Findings suggest it is feasible to deliver a text messaging-based childhood obesity prevention intervention to parents of young children living on a rural American Indian reservation. Text messages were appreciated by parents and may influence child health behaviours associated with childhood obesity.

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Parental Perceived Control and Social Support: Linkages to Change in Parenting Behaviors During Early Adolescence

Cited by 31 publications

References 75 publications

Friendship, reciprocity and similarity: lone mothers and their relationships with friends

Friendship, reciprocity and similarity: lone mothers and their relationships with friends

The Role of Parents in Emerging Adults’ Psychological Well‐Being: A Person‐Oriented Approach

Feasibility of text messaging to promote child health in a rural community on an American Indian reservation

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